Slingsby T.66 Nipper G-AVKH near Stokesley.

Prior to this incident the pilot had travelled to Darlington to collect a repaired propeller for this aircraft and fitted it at Teesside Airport where the aircraft was stored. On Saturday, 26th October 1974 he took off from Teesside airport to test the aircraft but after a few minutes flying it and circling the Stokesley area it dived into the ground near Newby Grange Farm, Stokesley. The pilot was thrown from the aircraft and was killed.

Pilot - Mr Peter Easton, aged 37. Buried Saltburn Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Peter Easton was born on 28th February 1937 in Co.Durham. While serving in the Merchant Navy in the 1960s he learnt to fly and was working as an engineer for British Oxygen Company when he died.
This aircraft was registered to Mr Farrell Roger Brimecombe, of Bedfordshire but was almost certainly leased to a club who used Teesside airfield, probably the Cleveland Flying School.

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