ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 202652
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| Date: | Friday 23 June 1944 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  De Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth |
| Owner/operator: | 6 EFTS RAF |
| Registration: | BB792 |
| MSN: | 3107 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Wollaston, 3 miles S of Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Wollaston, Northamptonshire |
De Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth MSN 3107 (Gipsy III #3364): Registered as G-ABUL [C of R 3636] 4.3.32 to National Aviation Day Ltd, Ford Aerodrome, Yapton, Arundel, West Sussex. C of A 3384 issued 21.3.32. Delivered 12.4.32 and flown on tour by Flight Lieutenant Turner Hughes. Registered [C of R 4154] 30.1.33 to The de Havilland Aircraft Co Ltd, Hatfield. Sometime fitted with Gipsy Major #5076.
Re-registered [C of R 4311] 4.33 to (unknown party - but probably back to National Aviation Day Ltd). Registered [C of R 4316] 7.4.33 to Sir Alan John Cobham and operated by National Aviation Day Ltd, nominally based at Ford Aerodrome, Yapton, Arundel, West Sussex; flown on tour by Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey Tyson. Registered 11.33 to (unknown - but possibly Airwork Ltd, Heston). Re-registered [C of R 5430] 8.11.34 to John Roland Sedgewick, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire (based at Heston).
Re-registered [C of R 6275] 6.9.35 to Brooklands Aviation Ltd, Sywell and operated by 6 E&RFTS; unit re-named 6 EFTS after outbreak of war on 3.9.39. Registration cancelled 17.9.40 by Secretary of State.
Impressed into military service 17.9.40 as BB792 with 1 EFTS, Royal Air Force, and civil registration G-ABUL cancelled same day. Later (by 1944) in service with 6 EFTS at RAF Wollaston, Northamptonshire.
Written off (damaged beyond repair) when hit a cyclist whilst low flying at Wollaston, Northamptonshire 23.6.44. According to published sources (see link #6) in relation to the fatal crash (2 killed) of Tiger Moth BB699 on 25.7.44: "This must have been a wretched time for 6 EFTS as less than a month had passed since Tiger Moth BB792, in the charge of another instructor, had stalled and crashed after hitting and killing a cyclist while ‘beating up’ land girls at Wollaston".
The reported crash location of Wollaston is a village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, England, about 3 miles (5 km) south of the market town of Wellingborough
Sources:
1. https://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/15-aeroplanes/80-register-gb-g-ab
2. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ABUL.pdf
3. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-A3.html
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p031.html
5. https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EPW037864
6. http://www.mackz.net/cm_turvey%20news.htm
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollaston,_Northamptonshire
8. https://www.alamy.com/vintage-black-and-white-photograph-taken-in-1935-showing-a-de-havilland-dh82-tiger-moth-registration-g-abul-part-of-the-sir-alan-cobham-air-display-days-image366422867.html
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 07-Dec-2017 22:58 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 07-Dec-2017 22:58 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 19-Nov-2018 22:04 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
| 23-Aug-2021 01:18 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Narrative, Category] |
| 23-Aug-2021 01:19 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 23-Aug-2021 08:50 | Anon. | Updated [Operator, Location, Operator] |
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