Miles Gemini G-AJWG near Bassenthwaite.

On 26th June 1948 this aircraft was being flown over the northern area of the Lake Disrict possibly as part of the pilot and his wife's honeymoon. It clipped the ground near the top of Binsey and the pilot force landed the damaged aircraft near Low House Farm, Bassethwaite. When a local farmer attempted to rotate the propeller to tie it down the propellers one kicked back and the engine turned over.

Pilot - Name unknown.

Passenger - Name unknown.

Miles Gemini G-AJWG was first registered on the UK civilian register on 16th June 1947 to Chartair Ltd, London. John Weston Adamson, trading as Oldstead Aircraft, Sunderland registered ownership on 26th May 1948 and he must have had it repaired following the landing at Bassenthwaite and owned it until Robert Adler bought it in May 1950. The aircraft is believed to have crashed into or near the River Ribble at Grindleton, Lancashire but was again recovered. It seems unlikely it was repaired as the Certificate of Airworthiness expired on 13th March 1965 and it was stripped and burnt on a bonfire on 5th November 1966. An inglorious end!

The owner of the aircraft, Mr John Weston Adamson, doesn't appear to have been flying it in June 1948 if the report of him being on his honeymoon is correct because he married in London in 1946 not 1948. He lived at Oldstead Hall, North Yorkshire, he died in January 1977 and is buried at Kilburn Churchyard, North Yorkshire. John Weston Adamson also owned Dragon Rapide G-AFMF when it crashed near Hexham on 19th February 1954 on a flight from Newcastle to Dublin with the pilot Mr Brian Kynaston Waugh and his passengers all surviving.

The location of where this incident occurred has not yet been found. If you can assist please contact me HERE. Thank you.

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