Longhorn at Redcar.

On the 21st of November 1916 this aircraft was involved in a taxiing accident at Redcar damageing its top wing and propeller.

Pilot - F/Lt Louis M B Weil RNAS, of St. John's Wood, London, ok.

Observer - Flt Sub Lt H L E Tyndale-Briscoe RNAS, ok.


F/Lt Louis Weil was killed on 6th April 1917, he is listed as being in the RNAS but serving in the RFC. he is buried at Sauchy-Lestree Communal Cemetery, France. He was only 18 years old.

Sauchy-Lestree Communal Cemetery


The aircraft which Luis Weil had his mishap at Redcar was built to contract 114826/16 by Brush E.E. Co. Ltd at Loughborough and delivered to RNAS Redcar on 4th November 1916. It was tested there on the 10th of November and accepted. Following this accident on the 21st of November it was repaired and suffered three more accidents, Cat R/FA on the 21st December 1916, Cat R/FA on the 6th of January 1917 and finally at Cat W/FA on the 22nd of August 1917. It was surveyed on the 7th of December 1917 and deleted for use as spares on the 14th of August 1917.