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Date: | Sunday 25 January 1948 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Taylorcraft Auster Plus D |
Owner/operator: | William Horace Ledbetter |
Registration: | G-AGZN |
MSN: | 178 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Rearsby, Charnwood, Leicestershire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Rearsby, Charnwood, Leicestershire |
Destination airport: | Walsall Airport, Walsall, Staffordshire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Originally built as the prototype Model E (Auster AOP.III) with Gipsy Major installation, and delivered as such to the A&AEE at Boscombe Down, Wiltshire on 27/10/42. Thereupon it seemed to spend much of its time between Boscombe Down and Rearsby; to Rearsby 4/12/42, back to Boscombe Down 17/12/ 42, Rearsby (again) 30/4/43, Boscombe Down 16/5/43.
On 17/6/43 it was despatched to 20 MU RAF Aston Down, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire for storage, but later, on 13/9/43, it was flown to Rearsby for conversion to Auster AOP.1 standard, returning to 20 MU Aston Down on 4/12/ 43 where it remained stored there until 1/12/45 when transferred to 5 MU RAF Kemble, Gloucestershire for disposal. On 11/1/46, LB319 was struck off charge and was sold to Brockhouse Ltd., of West Bromwich.
Became G-AGZN on 23/1/1946 (C of R 6865/1; C of A 7415) with registered owner John Leslie Brookhouse, West Bromwich, Staffordshire. Aircraft's registered "home port" (usual base) was Walsall Airport, Staffordshire.
Sold on and re-registered (C of R 6865/2) 20/7/46 to Willam Horace Ledbetter, Erdington, Birmingham (remained based at Walsall Airport).
Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed into a pylon near Rearsby, Charnwood, Leicestershire on 25/1/1948. Registration G-AGZN cancelled as "destroyed" 25/1/1948
Sources:
1. British Civil Aircraft Registers 1919-1999.
Compiled by Michael Austen
Air Britain (Historians) Ltd. 1999.
ISBN 0 85130 281 5
2.
https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AGZN.pdf 3.
http://britishaviation-ptp.com/auster1.html 4. Auster Quarterly Vol. 1 No.2 (Summer 1975):
https://austerhg.org/auster_mags/Auster%20Quarterly%20Volume%201%20Number%202.pdf p.46
5.
http://ws-clave.deviantart.com/art/Auster-I-651-Sqn-1-145217757 6.
http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Rec/rec.aviation.military/2007-03/msg01984.html Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-May-2008 11:10 |
ASN archive |
Added |
22-Jan-2010 23:19 |
John Baker |
Updated [Country, Source, Narrative] |
23-Jan-2010 10:51 |
John Baker |
Updated [Location] |
10-Dec-2012 11:20 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Date, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |