On 15th March 1917 this RNAS Flying School aeroplane crashed on landing at Redcar aerodrome. The aircraft is listed within "AIR1/312/15/226/198" on 1st April 1917 in a daily report as being recommended for deletion on this date.
Pilot - Name unknown.
Curtiss JN-3 8402 was built by Curtiss in Toronto, Canada and was shipped to UK and following delivery to AAP Hendon on 15th November 1915 it was assembled, tested and accepted. It was immediately transferred to RNAS Flying School Chingford the same day as acceptance. On 20th March 1916 it was sent to the Fairey works for repair and conversion to a JN-3 (improved) and then returned to AAP Hendon on 18th August 1916 where it sat until it was again tested and accepted on 15th October 1916. Soon afterwards on 2nd November 1916 it was transferred to RNAS Redcar to join the Flying School, but was forced to land on route at Sledmere and was damaged on 3rd November 1916. After repair on site it was re-issued to RNAS Scarborough where it arrived on 4th November 1916, the nearest RNAS base, and after a brief stay there was transferred up to Redcar on 4th November 1916 where it finally joined the Flying School. After the accident in November 1916 it was repaired and returned to service with the RNAS Flying School before being finally destroyed in a crash on 15th March 1917. It was finally struck off when assessed as beyond economical repair on 3rd April 1917.
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