Date:	Tuesday 25 March 1941
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.89a Dragon Rapide
Owner/operator:	11 SFF (Service Ferry Flight) RAF
Registration:	X9448
MSN:	6263
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Standish, near Wigan, Lancashire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Sherburn-in-Elmet, North Yorkshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
c/no.6263: Registered G-ADAL [C of R 5487] 30.1.35 to Hillmans Airways Ltd, Stapleford. C of A 4715 issued 2.3.35; delivered 4.3.35. Merged into British Airways Ltd 11.12.35; re-registered to them [C of R 6788] 2.3.36 but not used. Instead, ownership transferred to Airwork Ltd, Heston 31.1.36 for sale. Re-registered [C of R 7109] after sale 4.6.36 to Wrightways Ltd, Croydon. Registration cancelled 14.4.40 as "sold".

Impressed into RAF service 14.4.40 as X9448, and to 6 AACU RAF Ringway, Manchester, 9.4.40. To 7 AACU Castle Bromwich 6.7.40. Returned to Wrightways Ltd., for repairs 20.7.40, after sustained damage landing at Abingdon 1.7.40; to 9 MU Cosford 26.8.40 for storage. Issued to 3 FPP Hawarden 2.11.40. To Station Flight, RAF Andover 30.11.40. To 7 Ferry Pilots Pool, RAF Sherburn-in-Elmet 5.2.41. To 11 Service Ferry Flight [date not recorded – but possibly the accident below was on delivery flight to them].

Written off when forced landed in bad weather, and struck a hedge at Standish, near Wigan, Lancashire 25.3.41; badly damaged, and to De Havilland Aircraft at Witney, Oxfordshire 10.4.41 for repairs. Not repaired; instead struck off charge 21.4.41 after components recovery.

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft X1000-Z9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985)
2. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ADAL.pdf
3. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh89.pdf
4. 11 Service Ferry Flight, Dumfries (SFF UK) Operational Record Book (Record of Events for the period 1 April to 31 October 1941): National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 29/887/19 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7162220
5. http://www.orpheusweb.co.uk/vicsmith/OldAccs/Jul40.html
6. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-A6.html
7. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh89a-dragon-rapide-standish
8. http://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/component/content/article?id=78
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standish,_Greater_Manchester

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
06-Aug-2008 23:16	Anon.	Added
12-Dec-2011 10:29	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Date, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative, ]
12-Dec-2011 10:49	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative, ]
02-Jan-2012 05:58	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Departure airport, Damage, ]
25-Jun-2012 08:44	Nepa	Updated [Operator, ]
30-Oct-2017 23:31	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Source, Narrative, ]
18-Feb-2019 22:22	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, ]
19-Mar-2025 17:48	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative, Category, ]
19-Mar-2025 17:50	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, ]
22-Mar-2025 01:48	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, ]