Avro 504k G-AATY at Bridlington.
On Monday, 28th August 1933 this aeroplane was being used to give paying passengers pleasure flights around the Bridlington area. One flight was made carrying a father and son as passengers, while descending to land and in a gusty wind the undercarriage struck a gatepost in the Kingsgate area. As it landed around thirty yards into the field the aeroplane then tipped up damaging the undercarriage, wings and propeller. The oldest of the passengers was thrown against the side of the cockpit and suffered head injuries while the pilot also sustained a cut nose. The pilot was serving in the RAF Reserve at the time of this incident.
This aeroplane was built from spares and was first registered to the Wolverhampton Aircraft Co.Ltd. (of Grimsby) on 20th Jnauary 1930, but they had their registered flying site as being at Brooklands. During Summer 1933 the company rented land in the Kingsgate area of Bridlington as their base for these passenger flights, this was on the south side of the town and very different to the seperate company who ran flights from a field to the north of the town. Following the damage sustained in August 1933 the aeroplane appears to have been transported to Driffield aerodrome and while the civilian registration was cancelled in December 1934 it lasted at Driffield until being scrapped in 1937.
Pilot - F/O William Eric Warr Grieve RAFO (22115).
Passenger - Name unknown.
Passenger - Name unknown.