ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 152234
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Date: | Sunday 10 April 1949 |
Time: | day |
Type: | EoN AP-5 Olympia 2B |
Owner/operator: | Private |
Registration: | G-ALJS |
MSN: | EON/O/047 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Redhill Aerodrome, Redhill, Surrey -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Redhill Aerodrome, Redhill, Surrey (EGKR) |
Destination airport: | Redhill Aerodrome, Redhill, Surrey (EGKR) |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Ex-BGA 545/APD; First registered as G-ALJS on 30/3/1949 (C of R 12601/1; C of A 10463). Written off (details not known) when it crashed on 10/4/1949, just two weeks later, at Redhill Aerodrome, Redhill, Surrey. Glider was flying Redhill-Beaulieu-Redhill.
Registration G-ALJS belatedly cancelled by the CAA on 10/1/1964 as "marks withdrawn from use"
Sources:
1.
https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?54450-Gliders-in-the-G-AL**-series-1949&p=1119916
2.
http://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-ALJS.pdf 3.
http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Olympia.htm 4. GLIDING IN BRITAIN Edited by Jacques Cocheme Published by the SAILFLYING PRESS LTD 1950
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
04-Jan-2013 16:35 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
27-Jan-2015 15:44 |
TB |
Updated [Operator, Narrative] |
12-Mar-2017 15:31 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
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