N5220
Baby Great Lakes BIBI PLANE · built 1972
Registrations are reused: the FAA register shows one earlier aircraft with this mark, the last registration cancelled on November 23, 1951.
Register facts: FAA Aircraft Registry (Releasable Aircraft Database) (open data).
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Safety history
No recorded accidents or incidents for this aircraft in FlightFinder’s database.
Earlier aircraft with this registration
Registrations are reused. These records predate the airframe built in 1972 and belong to earlier aircraft that carried N5220.
- July 11, 1940Accident
While on a maritime patrol flight over the North Sea, the twin engine aircraft was shot down by the pilot of a He.111 and crashed in Pernis, in the suburb of Rotterdam. Three crewmen were killed while the fourth occupant was injured and became PoW. Crew (500th Squadron): P/O Arthur Wilfred Alexander Whitehead, † P/O Anthony Ronald Mathias, † Sgt H. W. J.