Aircraft accidents on the North Yorkshire Moors.

BE2c 1119, crashed 8 miles North of Scarborough.

This BE2c was force-landed some eight miles north of Scarborough on 9th January 1916, the aircrft was badly damaged but returned to service after repair. The exact location of where this occured is not known but if the distance is correct then it was in the Staintondale area.

Pilot - Name unknown.

BE2c 1119 was delivered from the manufacturers Beardmore and Co at Dalmuir to RNAS Redcar on 15th September 1915, it suffered damage in a crash landing at Whitley Bay on 24th September 1915 and was repaired and returned to Redcar. After the accident above it was again repaired and transferred to RNAS Whitley Bay to be used on Anti-Zeppelin patrols. It was then transferred back to RNAS Redcar on 1st July 1916 where it saw out its service before being deleted from stock on 4th May 1917.