On the 17th of August 1971 the pilot of this aircraft was taking off from the Sutton Bank site, because of an uphill gradient and a light tailwind the aircraft appeared slow to accelerate during take off. The aircraft became airborne at the end of the grass strip but the tail wheel clipped a ruined dry stone wall hidden in heather. The pilot abandoned the take off and put the aircraft down, as it came to a halt it slowly nosed over until it was upside down. The pilot was uninjured, the aircraft was substantially damaged.
The aircraft was built by Reims Aviation SA at Reims, France and first registered in the UK on 6th January 1966 and was operated by Westair Flying Services based at Squires Gate but the aircraft did not arrive in the UK until 29th March 1966. It was purchased by Yorkshire Flying Services based at Yeadon (Leeds/Bradford) on 4th May 1966. It suffered it's repairable accident at Sutton Bank on 17th August 1971 but may not have been repaired straight away as it does not appear in the registers again until it was purchased by M.A. Collins, trading as Aircraft Mart at Staverton on 5th December 1978. The UK registration was cancelled on 9th November 1979 and it next appeared on the Irish register as EI-BHW, owned by B. Carpenter and based at Shannon on 22nd November 1979. It was transferred to R. Sharpe at Avoca, Co. Wicklow on 2nd May 1988 and it then moved to Weston Airport at Dublin. Its present status is listed on both the UK and Irish registers as 'unknown' as of 2005.
Pilot - Name unknown. He was a commerical pilot having 5830 flying hours at the time of this mishap, 2000 being on the Cessna type.
Passenger - Name unknown, ok.