Held at:

Private collection

Reference:

JM

Source:

Original document

Title:

Aircraft photograph

Place name:

Michaelchurch Escley

Date:

c. 1930

Description:

Photograph of Randolph Trafford’s aeroplane being refuelled in the field adjacent to the Garage at Turnastone. The plane, registration G-ABAM, still appears on the UK Civil Aviation Authority aircraft registration database. It is shown as ‘de-registered’, and the aircraft details are that it is a fixed-wing landplane with one engine, manufactured by the De Havilland Aircraft Co. Ltd, Type DH60G Gipsy Moth, Serial Number 1263. [At this time Randolph Trafford was resident at Michaelchurch Court]

Observations:

CAA Registration database at http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=60&pagetype=65&appid=1

[enter G-ABAM into the GINFO search engine]



Refuelling at Turnastone about 1930

Randolph Trafford [sitting on engine cover]

Hedley Wilding [passing up petrol cans]

Raymond Wilding [carrying cans]



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