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Old 16th Jun 2008, 18:42
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David Layne
 
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This is the aircraft involved.

K107 was the prototype Vickers Vimy Commercial, making its first flight on 13th. April 1919 at Joyce Green Airport in Kent. Initially it bore the interim civilian registration K 107. It was then allocated the civilian registration G-EAAV.

This aircraft was used on an attempt on the Cairo to Cape Town record with a prize of £10,000 from the Daily Mail. Flown by Vickers pilots S,Cockerell and F.C.G Broome it crashed at Tabora, Tanganyika on 27th. Feb. 1920

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