ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 27662
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| Date: | Friday 20 July 1951 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Avro 652A Anson Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | Airwork East Africa |
| Registration: | VP-KHT |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Arusha -
 Tanzania
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Agricultural |
| Departure airport: | Mombasa, Tanganikya |
| Nairobi, Kenya | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
VP-KHT Avro 652A Anson I ex-RAF EG239*. Civil registered as G-AKMV 27.11.47. UK Registration cancelled 27.7.50 as "re-registered in Kenya as VP-KHT"
Written off when crashed 20.7.51 at Arusha, Tanzania. Pilot killed.
Kenyan registration VP-KHT cancelled 27.1.53 as "sold to Aden Airways and subsequently reduced to produce". Reportedly re-registered to Aden Airways in January 1953 as VR-AAI, but not taken up (presumed scrapped instead as above)
NOTE: Most sources give the date of the crash as 1.8.51 - but that may be the date that it was reported, and that 20.7.51 was the actual date of the crash. The previous identity of this aircraft is qouted as "EG239" on the Air Ministry Aircraft Registration document. Other published sources give the previous identity as either "L7939" or "MG292".
Sources:
1. The Anson File (Ray Sturtivant, Air britain, 1988 p.302)
2. Airwork: A HistoryBy Keith McCloskey
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AKMV.pdf
4. https://web.archive.org/web/20120710032718/http://aeroclubea.com/newsletter09/Aero-club-news-issue09-09-oct.pdf
5. http://britishaviation-ptp.com/avro652_3.html
6. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/vp-kaa_&_sy-aaa.pdf
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 17-Mar-2012 17:50 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Date, Aircraft type, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 07-Apr-2021 18:07 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 07-Apr-2021 18:08 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 09-Apr-2022 09:55 | Ron Averes | Updated [Aircraft type] |
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