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Date: | Saturday 29 August 1959 |
Time: | |
Type: | Percival P.40 Prentice T Mk 1 |
Owner/operator: | Aviation Traders Ltd |
Registration: | G-AOPW |
MSN: | PAC/244 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Barton, Lancashire (EGCB) -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
Nature: | Demo/Airshow/Display |
Departure airport: | Southend (EGMC) Essex |
Destination airport: | Barton (EGCB) Lancashire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Ex-RAF Prentice VS628: sold to Belgium as OO-CDW, but sale fell through and registration not taken up.
Registered as G-AOPW to Aviation Traders Ltd on 30/5/1956. Written off (damaged beyond repair) when destroyed by fire on 9/8/1959: crashed and burnt out whilst demonstrating at Barton.
Registration G-AOPW cancelled same day (9/8/1959) as "destroyed"
Sources:
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-AOPW.pdf https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1078391/ http://www.southendtimeline.com/percivalprentice.htm Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-May-2008 11:10 |
ASN archive |
Added |
24-Nov-2012 19:20 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
18-Jul-2023 13:43 |
planenutz |
Updated |
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