Aircraft G-AKLM Data

Airframe Info

Manufacturer:	Short
Model:	SA-6 Sealand Mk.I    Search all Short SA-6 Sealand Mk.I
Year built:	1948
Construction Number (C/N):	SH.1562
Aircraft Type:	Fixed wing multi engine
Number of Seats:	9
Number of Engines:	2
Engine Type:	Reciprocating
Engine Manufacturer and Model:	De Havilland Gipsy Queen 70-3

Aircraft

Registration Number:	G-AKLM
Current Status:	Crashed on October 15, 1949
Delivery Date:	1947-11-26

Owner

Address:

, United Kingdom

User Comments

Peter Larkham, 2009-08-13 04:00:00

G-AKLM received it's certificate of air worthiness 28th July 1949 and entered the King's Cup race on 1 August at Elmdon, where it averaged 169 mph round the course but was unplaced. I t went on to be a demonstrator for Short Brothers and Harland. In October 1949 it began a demonstration tour of Scandinavia, but on the 15th it crashed in fog at Lindesnes in Norway, the pilot D. G. McCall and his crew (including George Puddicombe of Shorts' sales staff) being killed. G-AKLO replaced G-AKLM as the European demonstrator.