Miles G-AKGS crashed South Spain 1954

That I haven’t found yet.

John

And Michel wanted a photo John?

The crash pilots name was Seeley and the passenger was named Mullins. When at RAF Barrow the rear cockpit had a teardrop hood, but this was removed later. Full history in Peter Amos’s Miles the early years.

John

Options are that it had been sold and was being delivered or the UK owner was going on holiday (1st April?).:confused:

Does Michel know the name of the pilot?

Thank you very much.

The ABC newspaper, 3 april 1954 edition, reported that two on board were the americans David Seeley and Charles J. Mullin.

Hope to know more info if I get the acc. report. If so, I´ll let you know.

MIchel

If you have not already seen the crash report, http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=572072&CATLN=6&accessmethod=5 might be useful to you, Michel. It would be interesting to know what a British registered Magister was doing, so far from home, when it crashed in, presumably, the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Thank you very much. Yes, I have contacted with them for to order the accident report and prices. I think that I read that them have the spanish report, so I´m going to check it in the Spanish AF Archive

And yes, the Miles crashed in Sierra Nevada mountains, near a small village, Cañar, placed in the Alpujarras, south face of S. Nevada. Her was in flight between Málaga and Murcia, it is all I know about the accident.

Michel

In which case the aircraft’s career with the RAF is as follows:

23 ERFTS. Elementary & Reserve Flying Training School.

24 EFTS. Elementary Flying Training School.

60 OTU. Operational Training Unit.

485 Squadron.

7 FTS. Flying Training School.

SPTU. Service Pilots training Unit.

ECFS. Empire central Flying School.

Sold 14/11/46. Information from Air britain’s Royal Air Force Aircraft P1000 – R9999.

Hope this helps.

kev35

Thank you very much Kev, complete information, what I was looking for, it´s great ¡¡¡

British Military serial was P6410…………..

Planemike

Thank you very much¡¡¡¡ 😉

Options are that it had been sold and was being delivered or the UK owner was going on holiday (1st April?).:confused:

Does Michel know the name of the pilot?

If you have not already seen the crash report, http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=572072&CATLN=6&accessmethod=5 might be useful to you, Michel. It would be interesting to know what a British registered Magister was doing, so far from home, when it crashed in, presumably, the Sierra Nevada mountains.

In which case the aircraft’s career with the RAF is as follows:

23 ERFTS. Elementary & Reserve Flying Training School.

24 EFTS. Elementary Flying Training School.

60 OTU. Operational Training Unit.

485 Squadron.

7 FTS. Flying Training School.

SPTU. Service Pilots training Unit.

ECFS. Empire central Flying School.

Sold 14/11/46. Information from Air britain’s Royal Air Force Aircraft P1000 – R9999.

Hope this helps.

kev35

British Military serial was P6410…………..

Planemike

The aircraft was stored at Christchurch in 1949, rebuilt and then used by the Christchurch Flying Club before moving on. It is interesting that its last UK owner was a resident at Oxford University, student or teacher?

Let us know about your crash research.:)

Perhaps this link might be of interest?

http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=60&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=detailnosummary&fullregmark=AKGS

if you open the pre 1986 part of the document it gives more detail.

Edited to add: Construction number was 1765.

Hope this helps.

Kev35