RAF BE2e G-EAJV near Northallerton.
On 12th October 1920 this aircraft was being flown from Brough to Glasgow when it suffered engine failure in the Northallerton area. The pilot successfuly force landed the aircraft in a field where the engine was then repaired. Believing the aircraft was fully working, the pilot took off again but immediately the engine lost power and the pilot tried another forced landing but it hit a wall. It came to rest badly damaged but the pilot survived. A more precise location of where this occurred is not yet known.
Pilot - Mr Cyril Ralph Catesby.
Cyril Catesby was born on 13th April 1901 at Watford, Hertforshire. He was awarded his Royal Aero Club Aviators' Certificate following training at the Central Aircraft Co., Northolt on 22nd June 1920. He married Imelda Tussaud in Watford in 1931 and died in Little Milton, Oxfordshire on 29th May 1973.
The aircraft was formerly an RAF aircraft and carried the serial number A1410. The RAF sold it after the First World War and it was first registered on the civilian register by Mr Catesby on 28th September 1920, possibly based at Hendon. The crash near Northallerton the following month saw the aircraft being listed as destroyed or permanently withdrawn from use.