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By: 11th February 2020 at 16:06 Permalink
-The pilot is not fully named but the crash location was a field near the Valiant Sailor in Folkestone
By: 11th February 2020 at 16:33 Permalink
-Was other owner Allison Aviation of Finchley ?
By: 11th February 2020 at 16:36 Permalink
-What about the other 2 Avros Sky Trips had Avro 504K G-EAAY and G-EBZA
By: 11th February 2020 at 17:53 Permalink
-Thank you, Paul.
Can you please elaborate on the information contained in your first post? I had not hitherto come across this information. It appears that your source is not one known/accessible to me.
I have Alliston Aviation Co. Ltd., of East Finchley, as the owner of G-EBWF at the time of the accident about which I'm enquiring. Regrettably I don't seem to have kept a note of the source of my information that this 504K previously was owned by Sky Trips.
Were G-EAAY and G-EBZA owned or just operated by Sky Trips? G-INFO contains no reference to Sky Trips in the fiches for these two aeroplanes. However I'm conscious of the fact that the G-INFO entries for both aeroplanes start as late as July 1930 and were transcribed from earlier material. I've seen a number of references to such transcriptions being incomplete and/or early records having been lost. As evidently it is not G-INFO, what is the source of your information as to Sky Trips' ownership or operation of these two 504Ks?
By: 11th February 2020 at 18:00 Permalink
-Avion
The field location is mentioned in a few newspaper reports of the accident - namely in the Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald and also I found a earlier article which just mentions the company briefly saying that were operating from the same field
The source for the other two Avro 504K is google books Janes All the Worlds Aircraft 1930
Paul
By: 11th February 2020 at 18:30 Permalink
-Thank you, Paul, G-EAAY looks, on present information, to be the most likely candidate as BCAR 1919-1999 gives this aeroplane as having had its CofA cancelled on 24.10.30 'due to a prior accident' (although the ARB records show it being registered on 14 July 1930 to Lancelot Richard Gladwin-Errington and being based at Bekesbourne (which would place it geographically close to the accident site)).
By: 11th February 2020 at 20:40 Permalink
-Avro Aircraft since 1908 has this, AA (not sure if it adds any more to what you already know) -
C724/AY, 7.5.19, G.W., 9.24 Lady U. Beecham, Hendon; 5.25 Liverpool Av. Co., 4.26 Southern Counties Av. Co. "Jake " Brooklands; 10.26 F. G. Miles, Shoreham; 4.27 L. J. Skytrips Ltd.; 7.30 L.R.G. Errington, Bekesbourne, crashed 1931
G-EBWF, 21.3.28, L. J. Skytrips Ltd., 5.29 Alliston Av. Co., scrapped at Hornchurch, Essex 12.32
G-EBZA, 13.7.28, L. J. Skytrips Ltd., 8.30 L. R. G. Errington, s.o.r.12.31
By: 11th February 2020 at 21:16 Permalink
-Every little helps, MM - especially from those with a good Putnam library!
By: 12th February 2020 at 19:53 Permalink
-Came across this little snippet about Sky Trips in "Flight" -
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By: avion ancien - 11th February 2020 at 15:30
Can anyone help me identify the Avro 504K (?) operated by Skytrips, for pleasure flying, that was damaged in a heavy landing at Hawkinge on 1 August 1929. The incident was reported by the Western Mail as follows:
My best guess is that it was G-EBWF, which was registered to L J Sky-Trips Ltd of Wokingham in 1928. But against this is the fact that on the date of the accident this aeroplane had been registered to another owner for a month and there is no record of it suffering an accident on 1 August 1929, or any other date, before being withdrawn from use in July 1931 and scrapped in December 1932.
With my thanks in anticipation.
AA