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| Date: | Sunday 22 January 1939 |
| Time: | overnight |
| Type: | Mignet HM.14 Pou-du-Ciel |
| Owner/operator: | Leonard Valentine Grantham Barrow (regd. owner) |
| Registration: | G-AEFE |
| MSN: | LVGB.1 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Wilkins Garage, St. Johns Street, Colchester, Essex -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Wilkins Garage, St. Johns Street, Colchester, Essex |
Mignet HM.14 Pou-du-Ciel G-AEFE, Leonard Valentine Grantham Barrow (registered owner) with MSN LVGB.1: Registered as G-AEFE on 27.3.36. A to F (Application to Fly) No.62, issued 3.4.36, expired 2.3.37. Registered owners address was at Wilkins Garage, St Johns Street, Colchester. (Believed built for Barrow - or certainly with Barrow - by Mr Wilkins, who owned the garage in St Johns Street.)
Started circa January 1936 with Scott A.2S engine. Flown at Ipswich in early 1936. Hit a rabbit burrow during trials from Ipswich and tipped onto its side. Not flown again and stored - perhaps at Ipswich. Possibly taken back to Wilkins' garage in Colchester and later burnt in a fire there at an (as yet) unknown date, probably in 1938
Registration G-AEFE cancelled 22.1.39 by Air Ministry in census.
NOTE: The exact date of the fire in which Flea G-AEFE was destroyed has not been found (but was probably in late 1938). Hence, the date of "22.1.39" is used - by default - pending discovery of the exact date of the first that destroyed this aircraft.
Sources:
1. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/archive/Archive_1998.pdf p.98
2. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AEFE.pdf
3. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-A8.html
4. https://airport-data.com/aircraft/G-AEFE.html
5. https://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/page-gb-registers-g-ae/g-ae-part-1?highlight=WyJnLWFlZmUiXQ==
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colchester#20th_century_and_later
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 04-Jul-2025 16:35 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
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