Date:	Thursday 4 July 1968
Time:	day
Type:	Brantly B-2B
Owner/operator:	Dixon Motors (Perth) Ltd
Registration:	G-ASJX
MSN:	325
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Balhousie Street, Perth, Tayside, Scotland -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Perth/Scone Airfield, Perth, Tayside, Scotland (EGPT)
Destination airport:	Scone, Tayside, Scotland

Narrative:
G-ASJX Brantly B.2B MSN 325 (C of R R.7959/1). Built Frederick, OK., 1963. Registered (C of R R7959/1) 9.7.63 to BEAS Ltd. Arrived at London Air Port as air freight cargo 25.7.63. C of A No A7959. On 17.8.63 it was demonstrated to Flairavia Ltd at Biggin Hill.

With G-ARVY, it was demonstrated at the Beagle Sales Day at Shoreham on 12.9.63, along with G-ARVY, and at Blackbushe on 23.10.63 being noted with Wessex Helicopters titles at Kidlington the same month, possibly on loan or for demonstrations.

Registration cancelled 5.11.64 and re-registered (C of R R.7959/2) 9.11.64 to Wessex Helicopters Ltd initially based at Eastleigh, Southampton but relocated to Thruxton, Andover Hampshire by mid-1966.

Registration cancelled 15.9.66 and re-registered (C of R R.7959/3) 29.9.66 to John Stone, Bruton, Somerset where it sustained an accident on 12.10.66 and was subsequently repaired by Field Aviation at London Stansted Airport, Essex.

Registration cancelled 7.6.67 and re-registered (C of R R.7959/4) 10.7.67 to A & B Cars (Distributors) Ltd, Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire.

Registration cancelled 4.5.68 and re-registered (C of R R.7959/5) 10.6.68 to Dixon Motors (Perth) Ltd, Perth and based at Perth/Scone.

Resided at the company garage and used for commuting in the Forres area until it crashed into a garden at Balhousie Street, Perth, whilst en route Perth to Scone on 4.7.68. Both occupants escaped.

Registration G-ASJX cancelled 4.7.68 as destroyed.

1. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/misc/Brantly.pdf
2. G-ASJX History 1963-1968: https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ASJX-1.pdf
3. G-ASJX History 1968: https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ASJX-2.pdf
4. https://airport-data.com/aircraft/G-ASJX.html
5. Wreckage of G-ASJX at Kidlington, Oxfordshire 14.6.69: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruleofthumbphotography/32229779656/in/photolist-dvSDqX-R733C9
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth_Airport_(Scotland)

Built 1963. For full aircraft history, see main ASN entry

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
23-Sep-2024 06:08	Dr. John Smith	Added