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摘要

Five Ashtons were withdrawn from use between 1959 and mid-1962, beginning with the prototype WB490, which was allocated for cabin pressure test duties at Woodford on September9, 1959. This short-lived secondary duty came to end on December 21, 1959, when the aircraft was sold to the specialist aircraft scrap company R.J. Coley & Son based at Park Works, King Street, Dunkinfield, Cheshire. Prior to the planned withdrawal from use of WB490, was the premature demise of WB492 following its wheel well fire at Pershore in August 1955. After being SOC, the aircraft was broken up on the far side of the airfield, the most substantial section being the front fuselage which was sliced aft of the pressure cabin.