page_title: Arthur G. Jones-Williams
section_title: Post-war service
hierarchical_section_title: Arthur G. Jones-Williams / Post-war service
caption_attribution_description: Fairey Long Range Monoplane
context_page_description: Captain Arthur Gordon Jones-Williams was a World War I flying ace originating from Wales. He was credited with eleven aerial victories. In 1929, he made two attempts at setting a nonstop flight record.
context_section_description: Second lieutenant Jones-Williams had been brevetted a Temporary Captain when promoted to a flight commander's slot on 25 May 1917. On 1 August 1919, he was granted a permanent commission as a captain.
  Remaining in the Royal Air Force, he was operating an Airco DH.9a in Kurdistan in 1923.
  On 1 January 1928, he was promoted from Flight Lieutenant to Squadron Leader.
  Between 24 and 26 April 1929, Jones-Williams and his co-pilot Lieutenant Norman Jenkins made the first flight from the United Kingdom to British India, covering 4,130 miles (6,651 kilometers) between RAF Cranwell and Karachi in 50 hours 48 minutes in a Fairey Long-Range Monoplane, falling only 336 miles (541 kilometers) short of the world non-stop flight distance record.
  Jones-Williams tried to better that record later in the year, and died while attempting a nonstop flight from Cranwell, England to Cape Town, South Africa. He crashed at Djbel Lit, Zaghaouan, French Tunisia, on 17 December 1929. He died an intestate bachelor, leaving an estate worth £202.
caption: The Fairey Long Range Monoplane.
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