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SV-4B crashes in Belgium

SV-4B planes lined up at Goetsenhoven - military airfield during the fifties

Date	Plane	Unity	Place	Country	Pilote	Remarks
16/05/1950	V15	EPE	Schaffen	B	Capt Andre	Collision with Spitfire Mk XIV SG 13

					Capt Vanlerberghe
14/06/1951	V14	EPE	Gossoncourt	B	Verhulst	Crash à l'atterrissage. Vent de travers
20/07/1951	V25	EPE	Marke	B	Cpl Pauwelijn +	Collision with electricity cable
19/09/1951	V32	EPE	Zeebrugge	B	Maurissen	Crash in sea
22/04/1952	V3	E. de Ch.	Nijvel	B	Cpl Blois	Touched the groud with wingtip and overhead
26/04/1953	V1	EPE	Koksijde	B	Sgt Linsmeau +	Stall

					El. pilote Hensen
24/07/1953	V37	EPE	Gossoncourt	B	Seghers	Overhead at landing
4/08/1953	V7	E. de Ch.	Raversijde	B	Liedekerke	Low altitude acro

					Barette
28/11/1953	V10	EPE	Bothey	B	Dewez	Engine problem
17/05/1956	V57	EPE	Neerheylissem	B	?	Engine problem
9/07/1956	V12	EPE	Gossoncourt	B	Sokoloff	Forced landing caused by bad weather
25/07/1956	V58	EPE	Autgaarden	B	?	Engine problems and forced landing
23/03/1957	V56	EPE	Gossoncourt	B	?	Loss of speed while landing
21/05/1957	V31	EPE	Gossoncourt	B	Hendrix	Wingtip touched the groud at landing
9/09/1957	V60	EPE	Gossoncourt	B	?	Overhead at landing (cause strong wind)
17/09/1957	V50	EPE	?	?	?	Different problems
16/02/1959	V35	EPE	Gossoncourt	B	Helderweirt	Forced landing, magneto problems
20/03/1959	V63	EPE	Gossoncourt	B	Adj Janssens	Engine stop while acro
18/04/1959	V34	1 Wing	Beauvechain	B	SLt Aigret +	Touched the groud while acro
7/07/1959	V44	EPE	Zwartberg	B	Vrancken	Control loss while acro
15/09/1959	V17	EPE	Gossoncourt	B	Sgt Hayt	Overhead at landing
5/11/1959	V13	EPE	Taviers	B	Sgt Verstraeten	Crash on garage during fly past
24/04/1960	V53	7 Wing	Cambrai	F	Braken	Loss of power at take off
26/05/1960	V42	?	Wevelgem	B	Sgt Bal	Loss of speed at landing
21/02/1963	V65	EPE	Gossoncourt	B	Adj Lambermont	Touched ground at low altitude passing
26/06/1964	V9	EPE	Gossoncourt	B	Adj Haway	Touche ground at inverse low altitude passing
26/08/1964	V24	EPE	Moret-Episy	B	Sgt Trahin +	Crash at landing
15/05/1965	V51	EPE	Bauffe	B	Naus	Crash at landing
24/05/1965	V59	EPE	Hakenover	B	Sgt Laboureur	Crash at landing
4/08/1966	V11	EPE	Gossoncourt	B	Lt Parisis	Crash at landing
10/08/1967	V29	EPE	Faulx-Les-Tombes	B	Adjt Auspert M. Mandl	Forced landing after losing prop - crew unhurt
29/08/1967	V40	EPE	Bardonnecchia	I	Adj Degeyter	Loss of power during forced landing
6/09/1967	V8	EPE	Gossoncourt	B	Auspert	Crash at landing

					Verhaeren
20/04/1968	V45	EPE	Oostmalle	B	1SM Geeninckx	Crash at take off
14/10/1968	V39	EPE	Overshespen	B	Sgt de Meerleer +	Stall
29/05/1969	V26	EPE	Gossoncourt	B	?	Overhead at landing
11/07/1970	V19	EPE	Koksijde	B	Cdt Lechat +	Stall

					Adj Piret +
3/08/1971	V46	EPE	Oostmalle	B	Lt Mullenders	Touched ground with wingtip at landing
5/04/1975	V6	Cadets de l'Air	Oostmalle	B	?	?

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Database, history and gallery of the 65 airplanes that were used by the Belgian Air Force, and the still flying planes.
Acro Team "Les Manchots" , the SV planes they used, and the aces. Article of Dominique Hanson.
Crash report of the accident with SV-4b V43 in Twente (Netherland) in 1986 - Crash report of the accident with SV-4B V53 at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome New York (USA) in 2001- SV-4B crashes in Belgium database of all Belgian SV-4B crashes
SV-4B with Blackburn Cirrus engine article of L. Wittemans.
Other types of SV airplanes and the LINK trainer , the other types of SV airplanes build bij Stampe Vertongen and an article about the LINK trainer, the first generation of flight simulators.
SV-4B OO-ATD and Divoy and Donnet, flight to freedom of Leon Divoy and Michel Donnet and SV-4B OO-ATD - SV-4B OO-ACB van Verbraeck en Reuter and their flight from France to Portugal in 1940
SV-4B V2 trip to Kamina (Congo) , in 1950 military pilot Manu Geerts had to deliver SV-4B V2 in Congo, Kamina. A trip of 10.578km, and 66 hrs flying time, article of R. Decobeck.
SV-4B in WWII in Africa , at the beginning of WWII 24 planes of the earlier SV-4B version airplanes, were transferred to Congo, at that time a Belgian Colony. This version had no closed canopy. An article of L. Wittemans.
Belgian Air Cadets , they used for several years the last military SV-4B airplanes.
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