Incident de Havilland DH.82a Tiger Moth LN-BDO,
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Date:Sunday 13 September 1959
Time:day
Type:Silhouette image of generic DH82 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
de Havilland DH.82a Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:Curt J Haydn, t/a Baerum Flyklubb, Hovik
Registration: LN-BDO
MSN: 85738
Fatalities:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Stabekk, municipality of Bærum, west of Oslo -   Norway
Phase: En route
Nature:Private
Departure airport:Oslo Fornebu Aiport, Oslo, Norway (FBU/ENFB)
Destination airport:Kjeller Airport, Kjeller, Skedsmo, Viken county, Norway (ENKJ)
Confidence Rating: Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources
Narrative:
de Havilland DH.82a Tiger Moth MSN 85738; Taken on charge by the RAF as DE840 at 15 MU RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire 5.6.42. To 46 MU RAF Lossiemouth, Morayshire 5.8.42. To 1 EFTS, RAF Holwell Hyde (later renamed RAF Panshanger), Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire 16.11.42, later coded “FHB-O”. To 29 EFTS RAF Clyffe Pypard 25.3.47. To 5 RFS (Reserve Flying School) RAF Castle Bromwich, Staffordshire 27.11.47, coded “RCY-F”. To 228 OCU, RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire 28.12.50. To 233 OCU RAF Pembrey 24.11.52. To 9 MU RAF Cosford, Wolverhampton Staffordshire 31.12.53 for long-term storage pending disposal.

Struck of charge when sold 26.5.54 to Hants & Sussex Aviation Ltd, Portsmouth. UK civil registered as G-ANSE (C of R R4622/1) 29.5.54 to Derby Aviation Ltd, Burnaston, Derbyshire. Overhauled at Wolverhampton and C of A A4622 issued 25.6.54. Registration G-ANSE cancelled 24.6.54 as 'sold to Norway'.

Re-registered in Norway as LN-BDO [C of R 324] 10.7.54 to Curt J Haydn & Per Asverstad, Baerum. Re-registered 13.4.59 to Curt J Haydn, t/a Baerum Flyklubb, Hovik.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) when ran out of fuel and crashed Stabekk, near Oslo 13.9.59. Stabekk is a suburban centre in the municipality of Bærum, Norway, west of Oslo

Damaged airframe sold 26.10.59 [but not re-registered] to T Ljones, Haslum. Registration LN-BDO cancelled 23.10.63 as "withdrawn from use". Used as spares in rebuild of Tiger Moth LN-BDN as LN-VYG in 1967. Identity used in rebuild of Tiger Moth LN-MAX in 1987 - but this Tiger Moth was mainly rebuilt from the remains of G-ASPV [MSN 84167].

Sources:

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft DA100-DZ999 (James J .Halley, Air Britain, 1987 p.17)
2. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ANSE.pdf
3. Norwegian Civil Aircraft since 1919 / K. Hagby, 1980 (ISBN 0 904597 2 7)
4. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p857.html
6. https://digitaltmuseum-no.translate.goog/021016465304/lufthavn-flyplass-fornebu-et-fly-ln-bdo-tiger-moth-parkert-en-person-ved?_x_tr_sl=no&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabekk

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
25-Mar-2008 13:00 ASN archive Added
09-Mar-2012 11:31 Dr. John Smith Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
14-Sep-2017 13:49 TB Updated [Operator, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
06-Dec-2021 19:22 Dr. John Smith Updated [Time, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category]

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