DH.82 Tiger Moth G-ANCV near Boothferry Bridge.
During the afternoon of Friday, 10th August 1962 this aircraft was being flown on a cropspraying flight in the Howden area when it ran out of fuel. The pilot attempted to make a forced landing in a field near Boothferry Bridge but the undercarriage was damaged and it overturned. The aircraft was owned by Airspray (Colchester) Ltd who was based at Boxted, Essex.
Pilot - W/Co Percy Robert Hatfield DFC AFC.
Percy Hatfield ran Airspray (Colchester) Ltd. who owned a number of cropspraying aircraft. He had owned G-ANCV from June 1960. Following the incident near Boothferry Bridge in August 1962 it was repaired but he then crashed it in Essex in March 1963. On 27th July 1965 he was flying cropsprayer Champion Challenger G-ASSN when it crashed near Boreham, Essex while crop spraying. Unfortunately he was killed. He was forty nine years old.