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Date: | Saturday 27 June 1959 |
Time: | |
Type: | Auster B8 Agricola |
Owner/operator: | Booker Sugar Estates Ltd |
Registration: | VP-GAZ |
MSN: | B.117 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Skeldon Estate, Region 6 -
Guyana
|
Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Agricultural |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Originally built as c/n B.108 and intended to be ZK-BMP, but delivery to New Zealand never went ahead.
Rebuilt with new c/n B.117 and exported to British Guiana, where it crashed working the Skeldon Estate, Skeldon. Remains sent back to the UK.
Sources:
1. rnzaf.proboards.com
2. britishaviation-ptp.com/auster_b8.html
3. Auster Heritage Group,
www.austerhg.org Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
23-May-2018 04:27 |
Ron Averes |
Added |
20-Dec-2021 22:50 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location, Source] |
15-Jan-2022 10:26 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Nature] |
15-Jan-2022 10:59 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Date, Location, Narrative] |
23-Apr-2022 07:31 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Operator] |