ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 89606
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Date: | Saturday 11 May 1940 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Percival P.10 Vega Gull |
Owner/operator: | Mr. d'Hansez |
Registration: | OO-ANC |
MSN: | K.46 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Beauvechain AFB, Walloon Brabant -
Belgium
|
Phase: | Standing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Le Culot (Beauvechain) airfield, Belgium |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:First registered {C of R 7630] 29.1.37 as G-AETD to Percival Aircraft Co Ltd., Gravesend Airport, Gravesend, Kent.C of R 5791 issued February 1937. Sold on and re-registered 7.3.38 to Mrs Barbara Chateaubrun, Gravesend, Kent (aircraft remained based at Gravesend Airport). UK civil registration G-AETD cancelled 10.3.39 when sold.
Re-registered in Belgium March 1939 as OO-ANC to M. d'Hansez, Le Culot (Beauvechain) airfield, 3 nautical miles south of Beauvechain in Wallonia. Requisitioned by the Belgian Government 19.9.39 during the "Drôle de Guerre" ("Phoney War"). Retained registration OO-ANC as a civil aircraft, no serial as a military aircraft was allocated, although there is photographic evidence that a Belgian Air Force roundel was painted over the "AN" part of the civil registration (see link #5)
The Percival Vega Gull was destroyed at Beauvechain airfield on the 11th of May 1940 by the Luftwaffe attack (see link #5 for photo of burning wreckage).
Sources:
1.
http://afleetingpeace.org/index.php/15-aeroplanes/79-register-gb-g-ae 2.
https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-AETD.pdf 3.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-A9.html 4.
https://forum.axishistory.com///viewtopic.php?f=84&t=143040 5.
http://www.belgian-wings.be/Webpages/Navigator/Photos/MilltaryPics/interbellum/percival_vega_gull.htm 6.
https://www.luchtvaartgeschiedenis.be/content/percival-p10-vega-gull Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
27-Jan-2011 15:27 |
ThW |
Added |
27-Jan-2018 00:33 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Cn, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
27-Jan-2018 00:34 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
29-Jun-2022 11:29 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
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