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| Date: | Sunday 28 January 1940 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Avro 594B Avian IVM |
| Owner/operator: | H.W.Fowler |
| Registration: | CF-CDT |
| MSN: | R3/AV/317 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | St. Thomas Airport, St Thomas, Ontario -
 Canada
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | St Thomas Airport, St. Thomas, Ontario (YQS/CYQS) |
c/no R3/CN/317 [OC] Avro 594B Avian IVM (Assembled by Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co., after arrival from UK): To RCAF as '138' taken on charge 16.6.30. Struck off charge 31.1.33. Civilian registered as CF-CDT [C of R 1243] 2.2.33 to Dept of National Defence; operated by by London Airport, Lambeth, near London, Ontario. Re-registered 2.10.36 to London Flying Club. Re-registered [C of R 1973] 25.5.37 to H.W. Fowler, St Thomas, Ontario.
Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed into trees on take off at St Thomas, Ontario 28.1.40.
Sources:
1. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/avian.pdf
2. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_CF-4.html
3. http://www.rwrwalker.ca/civil_prewar_2.html
4. http://www.rwrwalker.ca/RCAF_101_150_detailed.html
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Thomas_Municipal_Airport_(Ontario)
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