Registration / Serial: | F-AIFD |
Aircraft Original Type: | Lioré et Olivier LéO 21 |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Lioré et Olivier LéO 21 |
Aircraft Version: | Lioré et Olivier LéO 21 |
C/n (msn): | 1 |
Operator Titles: | (Air Union) |
City / Airport: | London - Croydon (EGGC) (closed)Map |
Region / Country: | England, United Kingdom |
Photo Date: | May 1927 |
Photo by: | L. Baker (via Mike Cain)Contact |
Photo ID: | 519499Submit Correction |
View count: | 807 |
Registered 20 August 1926. Later modified to a Model LéO 213 and operated by Air France, formed by the merger of Air Union with other French airlines -7 Oct.1933. Shortly after departing Le Bourget on a mail flight to Croydon on 16 Nov.1933 the port engine caught fire. The two crew members bailed out and the abandoned aircraft stalled and crashed into an electricity pole and a factory roof before bursting into flames in a tributary of the Avelon River, near Beauvais. Both pilots were uninjured but the aircraft and its cargo of over a ton of mail were all destroyed.
Registration / Serial: | F-AIFD |
Aircraft Version: | Lioré et Olivier LéO 21 |
C/n (msn): | 1 |
Operator Titles: | (Air Union) |
City / Airport: | London - Croydon (EGGC) (closed)Map | Region / Country: | England, United Kingdom |
Photo Date: | May 1927 |
Photo by: | L. Baker (via Mike Cain)Contact |
Registration / Serial: | F-AIFD |
Aircraft Original Type: | Lioré et Olivier LéO 21 |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Lioré et Olivier LéO 21 |
Aircraft Version: | Lioré et Olivier LéO 21 |
C/n (msn): | 1 |
Operator Titles: | (Air Union) |
City / Airport: | London - Croydon (EGGC) (closed)Map |
Region / Country: | England, United Kingdom |
Photo Date: | May 1927 |
Photo by: | L. Baker (via Mike Cain)Contact |
Photo ID: | 519499Submit Correction |
View count: | 807 |
Registered 20 August 1926. Later modified to a Model LéO 213 and operated by Air France, formed by the merger of Air Union with other French airlines -7 Oct.1933. Shortly after departing Le Bourget on a mail flight to Croydon on 16 Nov.1933 the port engine caught fire. The two crew members bailed out and the abandoned aircraft stalled and crashed into an electricity pole and a factory roof before bursting into flames in a tributary of the Avelon River, near Beauvais. Both pilots were uninjured but the aircraft and its cargo of over a ton of mail were all destroyed.
Registration / Serial: | F-AIFD |
Aircraft Version: | Lioré et Olivier LéO 21 |
C/n (msn): | 1 |
Operator Titles: | (Air Union) |
City / Airport: | London - Croydon (EGGC) (closed)Map | Region / Country: | England, United Kingdom |
Photo Date: | May 1927 |
Photo by: | L. Baker (via Mike Cain)Contact |