Registered as G-AINO for production test flights in UK. Delivered on 22 Nov 1951 to Canada for winterization trials. First assigned to No. 137 Transport Flight in Lachine, QC. Then assigned in support of 1 Air Division in Europe again with No. 137 Transport Flight in Langar, UK. Coded “GC 967”, “KC 697” and “KC B” in service with No. 137 Transport Flight. Transferred to 109 (KU) Flt in Grostenquin, France in August 1963. While parked at Gatwick in icy conditions, a ground crew member grabbed the VHF aerial after slipping on some ice. He broke the aerial off in attempting to prevent his fall. The aerial was refitted and welded back into place but the crew were not informed of the incident. En route from Gatwick, this aircraft crashed while on radar controlled approach in bad weather to 1 (F) Wing Marville on 30 December 1963 about one mile (1.6 km) short of the runway. The weld on the aerial had failed and the aerial had detached causing a loss of radio contact. The crash took the lives of seven service and one civilian personnel. Four crew members and 4 passengers were killed. One crew member and 2 other passengers were injured. The Board of Inquiry noted that the GCA controller had mistakenly tracked a “ghost image” of the aircraft on the radar causing the aircraft to be too low on approach but this was deemed an equipment error and not the operators fault. The airframe was written-off after this Category “A” accident with 4,192 total airframe hours. source: Kestrel Publications