Cranwell AFB

The crew departed RAF Cranwell for a local training flight. While approaching the airfield, the airplane collided with a second RAF Avro 504 registered J9693 with one pilot on board. While the pilot of J9693 was able to land without further problems, the crew of J8709 lost control of the airplane that crashed on the ground. A crew member was killed and the second was injured.
Crew:
F/Lt Henry Leonard Drake, †
F/Cdt Francis de la Poer Beresford-Peirse.

The crew was engaged in a local training mission at RAF Cranwell. On final approach, the single engine airplane went out of control and crashed. Both crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt William Henry Fearn,
AC1 Leslie Edward Charlton.

The pilot, sole on board, was completing a local training flight out from RAF Cranwell. While flying in the vicinity of the airfield, he lost control of the airplane that entered a dive and crashed, bursting into flames. The pilot William Henry Hodgkinson was killed.

The crew was performing a nonstop flight from England to South Africa and the Royal Air Force ordered this Fairey Long Range Monoplane to establish a new record. The aircraft departed RAF Cranwell in the morning bound to the south. While overflying Tunisia by night, the crew did not realize his altitude was too low and was unable to distinguish the mountains (Djebel Zaghouan). Around 2240LT, the single engine airplane impacted the slope of a mountain located southwest of Zaghouan. The wreckage was found the following morning. The aircraft was destroyed upon impact and both crew members were killed.
Crew:
Arthur Gordon Jones-Williams,
Norman Hugh Jenkins.

The pilot Raymond Hinchliffe and the British actress Elsie Mackay were engaged in a nonstop transatlantic flight from UK to Long Island. The aircraft named 'Endeavour' departed RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire, at 0845LT bound to the US. The single engine was spotted over Crookhaven, in the Cork county, and later by the crew of the French steamer 'Josiah Macy'. As the aircraft failed to arrive at destination, SAR operations were undertaken for several days but eventually suspended as no trace of the aircraft nor the crew was found. On December 1928, a wheel from the aircraft (with a serial number proving it was from this aircraft) was found on a beach in the Donegal county, Ireland. This was the only trace ever found. According to authorities, it is believed that the aircraft probably crashed into the ocean around 1400LT.

Sole on board, the pilot was completing a training flight from RAF Cranwell. En route, the airplane went of control and crashed in Ailsworth, bursting into flames. The pilot was killed.
Crew:
F/Cdt David Gam Harcourt Wood.

The pilot, sole on board, was completing a local training sortie at RAF Cranwell. On approach, the aircraft collided with a second RAF Avro 504K registered F8747. Both aircraft dove into the ground and crashed. The pilot Cadet Francis Gerald Cator was seriously injured while the pilot Cadet Vyvian Osborne Gillmore on board F8747 was killed.

The pilot, sole on board, was completing a local training sortie at RAF Cranwell. On approach, the aircraft collided with a second RAF Avro 504K registered H2364. Both aircraft dove into the ground and crashed. The pilot Cadet Vyvian Osborne Gillmore was killed while the pilot Cadet Francis Gerald Cator on board H2364 was seriously injured.

The crew was completing a training mission out from RAF Cranwell. En route, the pilot lost his orientation then control of the airplane that dove into the ground. Crew fate unknown.

The crew was completing a local training mission at RAF Cranwell. On final approach, at low height, the single engine airplane stalled and crashed. Both pilots were injured.