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| Date: | Thursday 7 August 1947 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | Miles M.65 Gemini 1A |
| Owner/operator: | Eric Gerald Hayes (regd. owner) |
| Registration: | G-AIKW |
| MSN: | 6309 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Sound of Rum, Near Rum, Inner Hebrides, Scotland -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Glasgow Airport, Abbotsinch, Glasgow |
| Confidence Rating: |  Little or no information is available |
Miles M.65 Gemini 1A G-AIKW: First registered (C of A 6209/C of R 10767/1) 30-9-46 to Eric Gerald Hayes, St, Marys, Scilly Isles. Written off (destroyed) 7-8-47 when crashed into the sea in the Sound of Rum, Near Rum, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. Registration officially cancelled by the Secretary of State, Air Ministry 28-10-47 as "crashed"
Rùm, a Scottish Gaelic name often anglicised to Rum, is one of the Small Isles of the Inner Hebrides, in the district of Lochaber, Scotland. The Sound of Rum is a channel of the Inner Hebrides; the Sound of Rum (Gael: An Caol Rumach) separates the islands of Rum and Eigg to the south of the Isle of Skye. This sound is 5 miles (8 km) in width.
Sources:
1. P D Stemp, 2010, The Aviation Archive of Miles Aircraft.
2. http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=G-AIKW
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AIKW.pdf
4. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/archive/Archive_1993.pdf
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B9m
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 15-May-2022 07:02 | Ron Averes | Added |
| 15-May-2022 08:09 | Ron Averes | Updated [Date, Location, Phase, Nature, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 15-May-2022 23:34 | Ron Averes | Updated [Operator, Source, ] |
| 19-Sep-2022 20:33 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Category, ] |
| 20-Sep-2022 16:42 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative, ] |
| 11-May-2023 15:50 | Dr. John Smith | Updated |
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