ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 151398
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| Date: | Friday 7 November 1947 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth |
| Owner/operator: | EVS Koninklijke Luchtmacht (KLu) |
| Registration: | A-7 |
| MSN: | 86616 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Rilland-Bath, Zeeland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Woensdrecht Air Base, Woendrect, Netherlands (WOE/EHWO) |
| Woensdrecht Air Base, Woendrect, Netherlands (WOE/EHWO) |
de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 86629. Taken on charge as PG730 notionally at 15 MU RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire 9.7.44. However, went into long term storage locally in ‘purgatory’ in the Oxford area. Returned to Morris Motors, Cowley, Oxford, for erection [undated, but probably 6.45]. To 38 MU RAF Llandow, Glamorgan 12.7.45.
Despatched to Koninklijke Luchtmacht (KLu)(Royal Netherlands Air Force) 8.8.46. Taken on charge by Koninklijke Luchtmacht (KLu)(Royal Netherlands Air Force) as A-7 at Woensdrecht Air Base on 20.8.46.
Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed on landing at Rilland-Bath, Zeeland, Netherlands 7.11.47; pilots Korte and van de Pol survived. To Fokker for repairs but abandoned; to Valkenburg 26.1.48 for disposal and struck off charge 2.2.48.
Rilland-Bath is a former municipality in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It was created from a merger of Rilland and Bath in 1878, and existed until it merged into the municipality of Reimerswaal
Sources:
1. Dutch Tiger Moths / Herman Dekker, 1986
2. https://kw.jonkerweb.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=701:dehavilland-dh-82-tiger-moth-uk&catid=85&lang=en&Itemid=547&showall=1&limitstart=
3. http://www.gahetna.nl/archievenoverzicht/pdf/NL-HaNA_2.13.165.ead.pdf#page255
4. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p866.html
6. https://www.ipms.nl/artikelen/nedmil-luchtvaart/vliegtuigen-d/vliegtuigen-d-dehavil-dh82
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rilland-Bath
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woensdrecht_Air_Base
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 23-Dec-2012 12:28 | harro | Added |
| 27-Dec-2017 00:03 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Other fatalities, Source, Narrative] |
| 25-Apr-2019 13:36 | Cobar | Updated [Total fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 15-Dec-2020 12:59 | Cobar | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport] |
| 31-Aug-2021 20:12 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
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