DH.60 Cirrus Moth G-EBMO near Selby.

On Saturday, 24th July 1926 the Yorkshire Aeroplane Club organised and ran their first air pageant and inter-club competion, the event was held at their Sherburn in Elmet aerodrome site with various flying events taking place around the area. During what was billed as the Inter-Club Relay Race one of the pilots suffered engine failure in the Selby area, he had just passed the cake and oil mills towards the north of the town when this problem saw the pilot make a forced landing in a corn field. The crop would have been at a reasonably tall height prior to harvesting and unfortunately the aeroplane came to an abrupt halt, tipped onto up on it's nose and came to rest upside down, receiving fairly severe damage. With the race eventually completed by the other entrants and this aeroplane left unaccounted for a number of other pilots and their aeroplanes took to the sky to carry out a search for this missing aeroplane. Despite the aeroplanes with pilots and passengers searching from the air the crashed aeroplane was actually located by a Leeds Mercury newspaper photographer on his bicycle who located it just before a thunder storm blew in. All but one of these aeroplanes landed back at Sherburn in Elmet before the worst of the storm hit with one other pilot not realising the missing had been found and she (Mrs Sophie Elliot-Lynn) eventually returned to Sherburn with the storm at its height. Earlier in the day Captain Broad had performed aerobatics over the crowd in G-EBMO at Sherburn.

Pilot - Captain Hubert Stanford Broad AFC.

Passenger - Mr William Thomson Hay.