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Registration: G-AFFM

Construction Number: 75

Model Airspeed AS.40 Oxford

Operator: British Airways Ltd. [1935-1939]

Airport: Heston Aerodrome, Middlesex, UK - England

Photographer: Joe Connolly

Date Taken: 1939 (approximate)

Date Submitted: 03/01/2021

Formerly the RAF's L4538, this had been supplied to British Airways Ltd fitted with the same radio/navigation kit as their Lockheed 14s for training. Fatal accident near Gosport in November 1939 when it hit barrage balloon cables.

Picture ID:1739420

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