Heston Type 1 Phoenix G-AESV
Heston Type 1 Phoenix G-AESV, owned by Standard Telephonics at Brooklands. G-AESV was impressed into the Royal Air Force as X2891for No.24 Squadron ; Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment at Boscombe Down for blind approach trials in December 1941 ; Scottish Aviation Ltd. At Prestwick in 1942 ; Air Fighting Development Unit at RAF Wittering in 1943. Surviving the war AESV was re-registered as G-AESV and flew regularly till April 1952, when it crashed in the French Alps
Picture No
13140084
Media ID
47748155
Size
5433px x 2400px
(2.4MB)
Credit
(c) The Peter Butt Aviation Collection / Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed photographer - scanned from original negative
Date
1937
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Approach Armament Boscombe Brooklands Crashed Establishment Experimental Flew Impressed Prestwick Re-registered Regularly Surviving Till Wittering
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