Kew Gardens
KEW GARDENS: Forced landing site
NOTES: It appears that Major Savage, almost certainly using an ADC (Aircraft Disposal Company) SE5A, who was well known for undertaking “skywriting” jobs, suffered an engine failure and landed here. It seems he also force-landed in nearby Osterley Park. These events would have been, without too much doubt from the mid 1920s to the mid 1930s
It fact he had a small fleet of six SE5As adapted for skywriting, based at HENDON, and one, GEBIB, is preserved in the Science Museum in London. In fact the batch registered by Major Savage, ran from G-EBIA to G-EBIF and all six were registered in September 1923.
They started being withdrawn from use (WFU) in 1928, and G-EBIF was sold to Germany as D-1632 in 1929. As far as I can make out, G-EBIB was the last being WFU in August 1935.
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