On 15th March 1917 this aircraft crashed on landing at Redcar aerodrome damaging it enough for it to be written off
Pilot - Name unknown.
Curtiss JN3 8402 was built by Curtiss in Toronto, Canada and shipped to UK and following delivery to AAP Hendon on 15th November 1915
it was assembled, tested and accepted. It was then immediately transferred to RNAS Flying School Chingford the same day. On 20th
March 1916 it was sent to the Fairey works for repair and conversion to a JN3 (improved) and then returned to AAP Hendon on 18th
August 1916 where it sat until it was again tested and accepted on 15th October 1916. Soon afterwards on 2nd November 1916 it
was transferred to RNAS Redcar, but was forced to land on route and was damaged on 3rd November 1916.
After repair on site it was re-issued to RNAS Scarborough where it arrived on 4th November 1916, the nearest RNAS base, and after
a brief stay there was transferred up to Redcar on 4th November 1916. After an accident in November 1916 it was repaired and
returned to service with Redcar's Flying School before being finally destroyed in the crash detailed above. It was finally struck off
when assessed as beyond economic repair on 3rd April 1917.