Tiger Moth BB795 at Yeadon airfield.
On 11th June 1941 this 20 E.F.T.S. aircraft bounced on landing at Yeadon airfield damaging the fuselage.
Pilot - LAC Leslie Roland Clark RAFVR (1166504).
F/Sgt Clark was killed on 3rd September 1942 while serving with 150 Squadron when Wellington X3313 failed to return from an operational flight. Aged twenty two years old he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
This aircraft was built by The De Havilland Aircraft Company Ltd. at Hatfield and was first registered on the civilian register as G-ADVY to Scottish Aviation Ltd.
at Prestwick on 9th December 1935. On 7th February 1936 it was operated by Scottish Aviation Ltd. under the guise of 12 E&RFTS and on 3rd September 1939 this unit
re-designated 12 EFTS. On 12th October 1940 it was impressed into the RAF as BB795. On 1st June 1941 it transferred to 20 EFTS at Yeadon and on 11th June 1941 it
suffered this landing accident, Cat.B/FA damage was recorded and the aircraft was dismantled and transported by road to Lundy & Atlantic Coast Air Lines Ltd. at
Barnstaple for repair. On 21st August 1941 it was taken on charge by 1 EFTS at Hatfield, then on 4th November 1941 it transferred to 21 EFTS at Booker where it
remained until being placed in storage with 33 MU at Lyneham on 8th September 1945. On 29th March 1951 it was one of twenty aircraft sold to Aerocontacts Ltd.
at Gatwick but it was never placed on the civil register again and as Aerocontacts Ltd. were repairers and refurbishers of aircraft it is likely all twenty
aircraft were used for spares before they scrapped what was left.