Longhorn at Redcar.

On the 21st of December 1916 Longhorn N5037 was taxiing when it collided with Avro 504 3304 and Curtiss Jenny 3440 at Redcar. All aircraft sustained damage.

Longhorn Pilot - Probabtionary F/O C R Derington-Turner RNAS, ok.


This aircraft 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. It was damaged at Redcar on 21st of November 1916 and repaired. Following this accident it was repaired and suffered two more accidents, 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.