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Date: | Sunday 5 June 1966 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth |
Owner/operator: | Dick Emery |
Registration: | G-ANDV |
MSN: | 83771 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Wisley airfield, Ockham, near Ripley, Surrey -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Demo/Airshow/Display |
Departure airport: | Wisley Airfield, Ockham, Ripley, Surrey (EGTW) |
Destination airport: | Fairoaks Airport, Chobham, Woking, Surrey (EGTF) |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 83771; Taken on charge by the RAF as T7272 at 46 MU RAF Lossiemouth, Morayshire 23.8.40. To 4 EFTS RAF Brough, East Yorkshire 29.3.41. To 4 RFS RAF Brough, East Yorkshire 26.6.47; coded "RCN-G" later “RCN-L”. To 24 RFS RAF Rochester, Kent 24.6.48. To 17 RFS RAF Hornchurch, Essex 23.6.48 coded "RCJ-B", later "12". To 1 RFS RAF Panshanger, Hertfordshire 14.6.51 coded “RCM-V”. To 63 Group Communications Flight, RAF Hawarden, Flintshire 21.7.52. To 9 MU RAF Cosford, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire 9.10.52 for long term storage pending disposal.
Struck off charge when sold 7.12.53 to Association of British Aero Clubs. UK civil registered as G-ANDV (C of R R4143/1) 30.9.53. Between September 1953 and February 1966, sold on and re-registered five times - the final owner being a famous TV celebrity - as follows:
30.09.53: First civil registered (C of R R4143/1) to the Trustees of the London Transport (Central Buses) Sports Association Flying Club
19.07.54: Registration cancelled/lapsed upon sale
20.07.54: Sold on and re-registered (C of R R4143/2) to the Trustees of the London Transport (Central Road Services) Sports Association Flying Club (slight change of name and change of Trustees responsible)
22.05.59: Change of address of Trustees responsible
01.10.61; Registration cancelled upon sale (Although retrospectively, as aircraft's record card notes "Notified 20.1.62")
07.02.62: Sold on and re-registered (C of R R4143/3) to Frederick John Lock, Trustees of the London Transport (Central Road Services) Sports Association Flying Club (change of Trustee responsible)
30.04.64: Registration cancelled/lapsed upon sale
11.05.64: Sold on and re-registered (C of R R4143/4) to Universal Flying Service Ltd., Fairoaks Airport, Chobham, Woking, Surrey
20.12.65: Registration cancelled/lapsed upon sale
02.02.66: Sold on and re-registered (C of R R4143/5) to Richard Gilbert Emery, Chobham, Surrey. The pilot was perhaps better known as the TV Comedian and Show business star Dick Emery (19 February 1915 – 2 January 1983). He was an English comedian and actor. Beginning on radio in the 1950s, a self-titled television series ran from 1963 to 1981.
05.06.66: Crashed at Wisley airfield, Ockham, near Ripley, Surrey According to a report in The Times for the next day (6/6/66): "WISLEY, SURREY, June 5: Two Tiger Moth aircraft crashed at a display watched by 10,000 people as Wisley today. The first landed in a field 150 yards from spectators during a display of crazy flying when a wing touched the ground.
The second, piloted by Dick Emery, the comedian, crashed during takeoff, ripped the roof off an estate car in which a woman was sitting, tore through a fence, and landed in the V.I.P. enclosure. Mrs. Ann Proctor of Camberley, Surrey, in the car, was unhurt. Mr. Emery, and Mr, Brian Smith, his passenger, were also unhurt. The Royal Aeronautical Society, who organized the display to celebrate their centenary, blamed a gusty wind for the accidents."
19.08.66: Registration cancelled as "P.W.F.U." (Permanent Withdrawl From Use")
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft T1000-V9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
2. Daily Mirror - Monday 6 June 1966
3. Daily Mirror - Tuesday 7 June 1966
4. Aberdeen Press and Journal - Monday 6 June 1966
5. The Times - Monday 6 June 1966:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/on-this-day-june-6-1966-9nzq0z0fkqp 6.
https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ANDV-1.pdf 7.
https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ANDV-2.pdf 8.
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf 9.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p837.html 10. Dick Emery standing next to wreckage of G-ANDV:
https://www.amazon.com/Vintage-photo-of-Dick-Emery/dp/B07X27HBVK 11.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisley_Airfield Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
27-Sep-2011 05:59 |
Uli Elch |
Added |
03-Feb-2012 21:33 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Date, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Country, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
28-Dec-2015 18:51 |
TB |
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28-Dec-2015 18:54 |
TB |
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13-Mar-2020 17:34 |
Dr. John Smith |
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13-Mar-2020 17:34 |
Dr. John Smith |
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14-Mar-2020 00:11 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Total occupants, Source, Narrative] |
14-Mar-2020 00:12 |
Dr. John Smith |
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28-Dec-2021 17:16 |
Dr. John Smith |
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