On 26th December 1916 this aircraft was damaged at Redcar when it's undercarriage collapsed on landing.
Pilot - Probationary F/O Harold Francis Stackard RNAS, of Norwich, Norfolk.
Harold Stackard was born in Norwich on 2nd March 1895 and joined the RNAS in 1916 by which time he was living in London.
Early in the War he served in Antwerp and Gallipoli with the Royal Naval Division before beginning his flying. After training
he later joined 9 Naval Squadron, RNAS and was given credit for shooting down fifteen aircraft. He was injured in the weeks before
June 1917 when his aircraft spun into the ground.
Scout N5405 was built by Bristol at Filton and delivered by rail to RNAS Redcar on 16th November 1916. It was then
erected, tested and accepted only to suffer the accident on 26th December 1916 as detailed above, but it was actually
being used by the Flying School at that time of the accident. There is no record of it being repaired initially though
it was sent to RNAS Cranwell on 3rd June 1917 where it arrived on 7th June 1917. No record exists of it's repair though to
must have been as it suffered anotherCat R/FA accident there on the 21st of August 1917 and another on 19th December 1917.
Again it was repaired and returned to service before being sent to 201/2TDS at Cranwell who destroyed the aircraft on
4th April 1918 a more serious accident.