DH.60 Moth G-AAPC near Yeadon.
At around 17.30hrs on 22nd March 1936 this Yorkshire Aeroplane Club aircraft flying towards Yeadon airfield and was making a westerly approach to land into an easterly wind, it flew into telephone wires along Harrogate Road / Victoria Avenue and crashed into a car park. A passenger on board was killed while the pilot survived. The local newspapers stated that this was the first fatal accident involving Yeadon airfield. The passenger was being carried on her first flight as a guest of the pilot rather than a paid passenger.
Pilot - Mr Reginald Ernest Morris, aged 33. Slightly injured.
Passenger - Miss Mary Louisa Jane Clarke, aged 23, of Cardigan Road, Leeds. Buried Lawnswood Cemetery, Leeds, Yorkshire.
Reginald Morris was born on 10th March 1903 at Nuneaton. He was awarded a Royal Aero Club Aviators' Certificate (Cert.No.12434) following training at the Yorkshire Aeroplane Club on 31st October 1934. He served as the chief ground engineer at the Yorkshire Aero Club at Yeadon before and after the Second World War.