On 8th December 1916 this aircraft was on a training flight when it skidded on soft earth as it landed at Redcar aerodrom breaking the undercarriage and propeller.
Pilot - Flight Sub-Lt John Amy Piquet RNAS.
John Piquet joined the RNAS on 21st May 1916. Nothing more is known of him.
Curtiss JN3 8392 was built by Curtiss in Toronto and was the dual control prototype of this type of aircraft which first flew at Long Branch, Toronto on 14th July 1915. It was dismantled, packed and shipped to the UK where it arrived at AAP Hendon for erection on 20th October 1915. It was then transferred to RNAS Chingford on 3rd November 1915 where it served for a short period before being sent to Fairey's for repair and conversion to a JN3 (Improved) variant on 20th March 1916. On 28th August 1916 it found itself back at Hendon before being transferred to RNAS Redcar on 11th November 1916. During the delivery flight it crashed at Sleaford, it was repaired on site and continued the flight the next day via RNAS Killingholme and arrived at Redcar where it began service with the Flying School. Following the incident detailed above it was repaired and returned to service and was involved in another more serious accident on 7th September 1917.