Anson N4929 at Scorton airfield.
On 18th November 1941 this aircraft was being ferried from Sherburn in Elmet airfield to an unidentified destination when a landing was made a Scorton airfield at 14.25hrs. The tail wheel appears to have jammed on landing and caused a swing to develop on the ground, the swing was uncontrolled and the starboard undercarriage leg appears to have collapsed resulting in the aircraft skiding to a halt with the starboard wing and aileron being listed as damaged.
Pilot - F/O Thomas William Rogers ATA (M.169).
Passenger - F/O Clarence Brook ATA (M.365).
Passenger - 2nd Officer Robert Edward Baugh ATA (M.559).
Passenger - F/O James Victor Lane ATA (M.627).
Passenger - (Rigger) F C Caldwell ATA
Thomas Rogers was an amateur jockey as a young man and had also initially served in the RAF as an LAC Cadet between September 1939 and September 1940 but had failed a night flying test so his RAF piloting was suspended. He then appears to have joined the RAF. He was later killed ferrying Botha W5103 on 10th December 1941 when the aircraft crashed on Bleaklow in the Peak District. He was just nineteen years old and is buried at Myddfai Churchyard, Myddfai, Carmarthen.
Robert Baugh was born on 30th November 1900 in Birmingham and had served in the RAF in the 1920s.
He resigned his short service commissionon 16th April 1924 while in the rank of F/O
He was appointed to the ATA on 18th June 1941 and his service was terminated on 15th March 1944