On 13th July 1916 this aircraft sideslipped into the ground on take-off from RNAS Redcar and crashed. Damage was severe and as a result the aircraft was written off.
Pilot - Flight Sub-Lt Edward Morgan Morgan RNAS, slightly injured.
Observer - Lt Richard Minshall Spencer Veal RNAS, slightly injured.
Edward Morgan Morgan gained his Royal Aero Club Aviators' Certificate (Cert.No.1726) at the RNAS Flying School, Eastchurch on 5th September 1915.
Nothing more is known about him.
Richard Veal was born in 1885 in Brentford, Middlesex. He was elected to be a member of the Royal Aero Club on 6th October 1914 but appears to have been serving in the Royal Navy in the rank of Sub-Lt when he transferred from the RNVR to the RNAS in February 1915. He was Mentioned in Despatches on 30th April 1918 for his WW1 flying in the second half of 1917. He survived the First World War and appears to have married late in life in 1958 in Romsey, Hampshire where he died only five years later.
Curtiss JN4 8802 was built by Curtiss in Toronto and after shipping to the UK it was delivered to AAP Hendon on 3rd May 1916, it was then transferred to RNAS Detling on 17th May 1916. It was later transferred to RNAS Redcar, via RNAS Eastchurch where it stopped over night on 19th May 1916. It arrived RNAS Redcar on 21st May 1916. After the incident detailed above it was assessed, written off and was deleted from stock on 21st August 1916.