On the 8th of September 1916 the engine of this aircraft failed, the pilot attempted a force-landing near Redcar but the aircraft
overturned doing so and was completely wrecked, Cat W/FA damage sustained.
The aircraft was built by Caudron and was delivered to RNAS Redcar on the 29th of July 1915. It soent some time going between the various Yorkshire RNAS Stations from here on :
to RNAS Scarborough on the 4th of August 1915, where it was tested and accepted four days later. It was then transferred to RNAS Hornsea/Atwick on the 11th of August 1915 before being brought back to Scarborough on the
10th of September 1915. It suffered a Cat R/FA accident at Scarborough on the 14th of September 1915 but was repaired on site
before being tranferred back up to Redcar on the 21st of October 1915 where it served out its time for nearly a year until
the crash at Redcar on the 8th of September 1916. It was finally deleted from stock on the 19th of September 1916.
Pilot - Flt Sub Lt J M Mapplebeck RNAS, ok.