On 23rd June 1916 this aircraft suffered engine failure and the undercarriage was torn off in the resulting force landing at Redcar. It is doubtful that a repair was ever carried out.
Pilot - Flight Sub-Lt Raymond "Collie" Collishaw RNAS.
The internet yields alot about Raymond Collishaw and I do not intend simply copying these works. This man is probably the most highly skilled pilot documented on this website in his era. He was born in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada on 22nd November 1893 to Welsh born parents. His requests in joining the Canadian Navy was not successful so he trained as a pilot with the intention of joining the RNAS, he qualified as a pilot in Toronto and sailed for the UK soon after joining the RNAS around that time.
After completing his training in England he carried out patrol flights of the British coast before a posting to 3 Naval Squadron RNAS in February 1917 but was later posted to 10 Naval Squadron RNAS as Flight Commander, his flight was known as the "Black Flight" due to him painting all his aircraft black and naming each aircraft, Collishaw's being "Black Maria" (other members of his flight sustained mishaps at Redcar during their training and have their aircraft detailed on their webpages on this website). After a period of leave he returned to 3 Naval Squadron in January 1918 which transferred to the RAF on it's formation in April 1918 and became 203 Squadron RAF. In total he was credited with some sixty enemy aircraft as downed though he had shot down many more but gave the credits to new pilots who were flying with him at the time. He was the highest scoring RNAS pilot and the second highest Canadian pilot in WW1. For his WW1 service he was awarded the DSC (Gazetted on 20th July 1917), the DFC (Gazetted on 3rd August 1918), DSO (Gazetted on 11th August 1917) and Bar to the DSO (Gazetted on 21st September 1918), and the French Croix de Guerre (Gazetted on 21st April 1917).
He remained in the RAF after WW1 up until WW2 and rose to Air Vice Marshall commanding air operations in the Western Desert. He was awarded the CB (Gazetted on 4th March 1941), the OBE before March 1942 and the OBE (Civil) (Gazetted on 1st July 1946) but was "retired" from the RAF on 29th October 1943 not at his request. He later returned to Canada where he died in West Vancouver, Canada on 28th September 1976.
Avro 504 8595 was built by A V Roe of Manchester and taken by lorry to RNAS Whitley Bay for testing on 29th December 1915. It was accepted there on 8th January 1916 and was damaged on 5th February 1916 before being repaired and transferred down to Redcar on 28th May 1916. Following this accident recorded above it is doubtful that it was ever repaired, it was finally deleted some time later and the date recorded is 14th January 1917.