Fairey IIIf S1356 near Brough.
Information on this incident is lacking and I have not yet seen an AM Form 1180 accident card for the incident as yet. Suggested by other historians to have occurred on Wednesday, 5th May 1937 this aeroplane was being ferried between two aerodromes when the pilot attempted to force land in a small field near Brough aerodrome. Unfortunately it sideslipped toward the ground and then crashed. On paper, the aeroplane was on the books with the Home Aircraft Depot, at Henlow. In general terms the Home Aircraft Depot undertook a proportion of the repairs and overhauls necessarily that arose during the use an aeroplane, it also appears to have been where aircraft were transferred to after being held in a manufacturer's works factory before being issued to specific flying unit. The pilot's name is given by others to have been the following name.
Pilot - Sgt R H Thomas.
This aeroplane appears to have been further damaged at Leconfield on 28th May 1937 which was presumably on the flight north after the repair had been completed following this earlier incident near Brough.