De Havilland Aircraft UK

De Havilland DH.104 Dove

The crew was engaged in a local training flight to be familiarized on this aircraft that was registered on the Australian registry two days earlier. Shortly after takeoff, while climbing, the airplane crashed in a field and was destroyed. A pilot was killed while two other occupants were injured. Crew: Cpt T. H. Dalton, pilot, Reginald C. Adsett, examiner, † R. H. Jarvis, assistant to Mr. Adsett.

De Havilland DH.60 Moth

Crashed in unknown circumstances. Both occupants were unhurt and the aircraft was damaged beyond repair. It was eventually restored in September 1951.

De Havilland DH.60 Moth

The pilot, sole on board, was completing a local test flight out from Stag Lane. The goal of the mission was a pre-delivery control flight of the airplane. Shortly after takeoff, while in initial climb, the airplane went out of control and crashed. The test pilot Jack Edgar Tyler was killed.

De Havilland DH.9

The crew was completing a local training flight at Hendon Airport when the airplane crashed upon landing. Both occupants were injured and the aircraft was destroyed.

De Havilland DH.60 Moth

The aircraft departed Stag Lane on a local flight with one passenger and one pilot on board. While flying in the vicinity of the aerodrome, the aircraft was apparently hit from beneath by a second De Havilland DH.60G Moth. Registered G-AAJU, the second Moth was operated by George Frederick Boyle and was also completing a local sortie out from Stag Lane Airfield with one pilot on board. Following the collision, both aircraft dove into the ground and crashed in Kingsbury, southwest of Stag Lane Aerodrome. All three occupants were killed.

De Havilland DH.60 Moth

The pilot P. D. Bennett was completing a local training flight out from Stag Lane Airport. The accident occurred in unknown circumstances in Radlett, killing the pilot, sole on board.

De Havilland DH.60 Moth

The pilot Arthur Leonard Monger departed Stag Lane on a local solo training flight. En route, the engine failed. The pilot attempted an emergency landing when the aircraft crashed in a frozen pond. The aircraft was destroyed and the pilot was slightly injured.

De Havilland DH.60 Moth

The pilot, Lt Henry C. MacDonald, was engaged in a nonstop transatlantic solo flight from Newfoundland to England. He departed St Johns in the afternoon of 17 October 1928. Some 7,5 hours later, the single engine aircraft was spotted by the crew of the ship named 'Hardenberg' some 600 miles off the Canadian coast. This was the last contact with the aircraft that disappeared in the ocean. No trace of the aircraft nor the pilot was ever found.

De Havilland DH.6

The pilot, sole on board, was completing a training sortie out from Stag Lane. En route, he lost his bearings and elected to make an emergency landing when the aircraft crashed in a prairie. The pilot was injured and the aircraft was destroyed.