‘Demise’ in 1929 seems to come from its registration document; in my experience those dates are not reliable as ‘write off’ dates. The oft-unreliable Wiki seems to have followed the same path. Incidentally the registration document says “?.1.29”, so obviously that date was questionable. The newspaper mentions a ‘somersault’ on landing, which would easily write the aircraft off.
Supposition of course, but irrespective of that I very much doubt that the January 1929 date represents anything other than a best-guess made at the time of something along the lines of scrapping what had been left after the 1926 incident.
Anything in Flight/Aeroplane or evidence of this aircraft between 1926 and 1929? My guess would be no.
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