Blackburn Bluebird G-AAOG near Oulton, Leeds.
On Sunday, 13th April 1930 this aeroplane took off from Hanworth to make the long flight north to Renfrew at around 12.30hrs. The pilot was flying with one passenger. The aeroplane was owned by the National Flying Services Ltd, based at Hanworth. The pilot had planned to make a landing at Sherburn in Elmet airfield where the aeroplane would be refueled prior to resuming the flight north. As the aeroplane flew toward Yorkshire the weather appears to have been effecting visbility because the pilot lost his barings. He was seen to circle the Oulton area of south-east Leeds prior to attempting a forced landing. Having selected a field at Oulton and descended a wing hit a haystack causing the aeroplane to crash. The nose and a wing of the machine were damaged but both the pilot and his passenger escaped injury. Both were taken to the farm and remained there until the evening then caught bus into Leeds to resume journey by train. The land was farmed by Mr Robert Wilson. The crash site was possibly near Greenland Farm with the field being just east and now what is now Park Road (off Fleet Lane).
Pilot - Mr William Thompson Taylor, of Callander, Perth.
Passenger - Name unknown.