Avro 504

Royal Air Force - RAF

The crew was performing a training flight. Pilot landed hard and aircraft veered off runway before coming to rest. Both occupants were injured while the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

Royal Air Force - RAF

The crew was performing a circular training flight at Belfast-Aldergrove Airport. On final approach, an unexpected situation forced the crew to attempt an emergency landing. The single engine aircraft hit a fence and crashed. Both crewmen were slightly injured while the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

Royal Air Force - RAF

Crew was performing a training flight. On final approach, the single engine aircraft stalled and crashed short of runway. Both crewmen were injured and the aircraft was destroyed.

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The engine failed in flight, forcing the crew to ditch the aircraft in the Irish Sea. The crew from a ship arrived on scene and was able to evacuate the mechanic unhurt while the pilot was killed when the aircraft sunk.

Royal Air Force - RAF

The aircraft was being ferried from Hendon to Abbotsinch Airfield up the east coast of England. It is thought that it took a route commonly used at the time which involved flying up the North-East coast of England and using airfields on the route to refuel. During the stretch from Driffield to Usworth, the pilot lost his bearings in fog and flew into a hillside close to Dromonby Grange Farm located near Carlton-in-Cleveland. The aircraft was badly damaged and the pilot injured. The accident was heard by local people who were soon on the scene. He was treated at the scene by Dr. S. T. Pybus of Stokesley before being taken to the Station Sick Quarters at Thornaby Airfield where he spent two days. He was then transferred to a military hospital where he spent a further twenty five days before being released. Avro 504 K1982 was built to contract 90666/31 by A.V. Roe Ltd in Manchester and delivered to Kenley on 9th July 1931. It was issued to 602 (City of Glasgow) Squadron on 12th May 1932. Following the incident detailed above the wreckage was removed to Thornaby Airfield where it was struck off charge on 1st December 1936 as damaged beyond economical repair. Pilot - F/O James Galt MacIntyre RAF (36015), aged 24, of Glasgow. Injured. Source: http://www.yorkshire-aircraft.co.uk/aircraft/planes/preww2/k1982.html

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The engine failed in flight, forcing the crew to attempt an emergency landing. Aircraft crash landed and came to rest upside down. Both crewmen were injured while the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

Royal Air Force - RAF

The pilot, sole aboard, was completing a training flight. On final approach, the single engine aircraft was too low and hit the ground short of runway. It lost its undercarriage, overturned and came to rest upside down. While the aircraft was destroyed, the pilot was injured.

Royal Air Force - RAF

On a training flight, while performing touch & go, aircraft was too low on approach and hit a hedge. The pilot was injured while the aircraft was destroyed.

Royal Air Force - RAF

In flight, the aircraft stalled and crashed. The crew fate is unknown as well as the location of the crash.

Royal Air Force - RAF

In flight, the pilot lost his orientation in foggy conditions and was unable to localize the Thornaby Airfield. He attempted to make an emergency landing but the single engine aircraft hit the ground and came to rest upside down in an open field located somewhere in North Yorkshire (the exact location is unknown). The pilot William Vernon Lewis Spendlove (from the 608th Squadron based in RAF Thornaby) was uninjured while the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.