Date:	Sunday 5 August 1962
Time:	afternoon
Type:	de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	Adolf Wildi
Registration:	HB-UBF
MSN:	3813
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Möhlin, district of Rheinfelden, Canton of Aargau -   Switzerland
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Herten, Rheinfelden (Aargau), Switzerland
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 3813 (Gipsy Major #80757); Taken on charge as N6476 at 9 MU RAF Cosford, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire 31.12.38. To 7 E&RFTS RAF Desford, Leicestershire 8.3.39. Unit renamed 7 EFTS upon outbreak of war 3.9.39. Crashed at RAF Desford, Leicestershire 6.7.40; to DeHavilland for repairs 5.8.40. To 45 MU Kinloss, Morayshire after reapris completed [undated, but probably later in 1940]. To Minster Lovell [undated]. To Taylorcraft, Rearsby, Leicestershire for repairs 17.3.41. To 10 EFTS RAF Weston-super-Mare, Somerset 20.4.41; to RAF Stoke Orchard 9.41. To 16 EFTS RAF Burnaston, Derbyshire 7.7.42. To 9 MU RAF Cosford, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire 28.7.45. To AOP School, RAF Middle Wallop, Hampshire 27.12.51 coded "BD-N". Renamed Light Aircraft School 3.4.53. To 9 MU RAF Cosford, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire 20.7.53 for long-term storage pending disposal.

Struck off charge when sold 10.5.54 to R A Peacock Ltd, Croydon Airport, Croydon, Surrey [but delivered ex-Cosford prior to 11.4.54]. Re-registered G-APAX (C of R R5954/1) 11.4.57 to Rollason Aircraft & Engines Ltd, Croydon. C of A issued 17.6.57. Registration G-APAX cancelled 22.7.57 as 'sold abroad'; delivered to Switzerland 10.8.57. Registered in Switzerland as HB-UBF 28.8.57 to Adolf Wildi, Olten.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed at Möhlin, district of Rheinfelden, Canton of Aargau 4.8.62. Crashed shortly after take-off. Both German occupants (aged 45 and 36) seriously injured. Möhlin is a municipality in the district of Rheinfelden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. Registration HB-UBF cancelled 9.8.62.

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft N1000-N9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
2. The British Civil Aircraft Register G-APAA to G-APZZ (Bernard Martin, Air Britain, 1978 p.15)
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-APAX.pdf
4. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p038.html
6. Tiger Moth HB-UBF (as RAF N6476/"BD-N" at Denham, Buckinghamshire 7.3.53): https://www.flickr.com/photos/dwhitworth/5561203602/
7. Passauer Neue Presse 7 August 1962, p2
8. Nouvelle Revue de Lausanne, n 182, 6.8.1962, p 5 on site: https://scriptorium.bcu-lausanne.ch/
9. Picture probably shows HB-UBF
https://www.swiss-archives.ch/archivplansuche.aspx?ID=3111673
10. Tiger Moth HB-UBF at Croydon in 1957: https://aflyinghistory.com/search-aeroplane-photographs?query=HB-UBF
11. https://histaero.ch/PDF/Flugunfaelle_2.pdf
12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6hlin

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
05-Nov-2014 20:42	TB	Added
11-Feb-2015 15:27	sparrow9	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Phase, Source]
11-Feb-2015 18:04	sparrow9	Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Source]
12-Feb-2015 05:10	Anon.	Updated [Cn]
22-Dec-2015 19:34	TB	Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Source]
19-Dec-2021 20:11	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Category]
19-Dec-2021 20:14	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Departure airport]