BRIAN JOHANNESSON COLLECTION
No. 2702. Miles M.5 Sparrow Hawk (NC191M c/n 264)
Photographed at Chicago Airshow, Illinois, USA, 1938

Miles M.5 Sparrow Hawk

06/26/2003. Remarks by Dan Shumaker: "This Sparrowhawk was the second of only five (c/n 239, 264, 275, 273 and 276) built. Its CofA was issued June 24, 1936 as G-ADWW and was shipped to the US in November 1936. They were powered by an 140 hp de Haviland Gipsy Major. This one crashed at Lantana Airport, Lantana, Florida, USA, on April 22, 1959."


Created June 13, 2003