On 21st December 1916 this aircraft was taxying at Redcar aerodrome when it collided with Avro 504 3304
and Curtiss Jenny 3440 at Redcar. All aircraft sustained damage.
Longhorn Pilot - Probabtionary F/O Cyril Randal Derington-Turner RNAS.
Little is known about the RNAS pilot Cyril Derington-Turner, a Cyril Randal Turner was born in Marylebone, London in 1896 and he is the pilot's likely identity. A Cyril Randall Turner served in WW2 in the RAFVR and as F/O on 1st January 1944 was awarded the Air Force Cross, given this WW2 officer served until 1954 at the very minimum it does seem unlikely that the two are perhaps not one man because of his age but possibly related ?
Longhorn N5037 was built to contract 114826/16 by Brush E.E. Co. Ltd at Loughborough and delivered to RNAS Redcar on 4th November 1916.
It was tested at Redcar on 10th November 1916 and accepted. Following an accident at Redcar in the same month (detailed on this website)
it was repaired and suffered the accident detailed above and two further accidents, one on 6th January 1917 and finally one on 22nd August
1917 from which it was not repaired. It was surveyed on 7th December 1917 and deleted for use as spares on 14th December 1917.