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Date: | Thursday 22 August 1957 |
Time: | day |
Type: | De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth |
Owner/operator: | London Transport (Central Road Services) Flying Club |
Registration: | G-AIJA |
MSN: | 85520 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | High Park Road, Elmfield, Ryde, Isle of Wight -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Fairoaks Airport, Chobham, Woking, Surrey (EGTF) |
Destination airport: | Sandown Airport, Sandown, Isle of Wight (EGHN) |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 85520; Taken on charge as DE553 at 5 MU RAF Kemble, Gloucestershire 23.3.42. To 116 Squadron, RAF Heston. Middlesex 2.7.42. Withdrawn from service for maintenance repairs 28.4.43; to Lundy & Atlantic Coast 30.4.43 fir repairs. Returned to 5 MU RAF Kemble, Gloucestershire 10.6.43. Reported as ferried 23.10.44 to RAF Brize Norton, Carterton, Oxfordshire. To 3 EFTS RAF Shellingford 27.4.45. To 5 MU Kemble, Gloucestershire again in 5.46 for storage pending disposal.
Struck off chrge when sold 2.9.46 to Oxford Flying Club, Kidlington. First civil registered (C of R 10721/1) on 19.8.46 as G-AIJA to London Transport (Central Buses) Sports Association Flying Club. Retained throughout its life by the same owner, although re-registered several times, due to slight name changes of owners, and the trustees responsible, as follows...
19.8.46: Registered (C of R 10721/1; C of A 8422) to London Transport (Central Buses) Sports Association Flying Club (until 27.8.51)
28.8.51: Re-registered (with new C of R R2020/2) to London Transport (Central Buses) Sports Association Flying Club (change of Trustees Responsible)
30.9.53: Re-registered to London Transport (Central Road Services) Sports Association Flying Club (slight change of name)(until 19.7.54)
20.7.54: Re-registered (C of A R2020/3) to the Trustees of the Assets of London Transport (Central Road Services) Sports Association Flying Club (slight change of name and appointment of new Trustee responsible)
22.8.57: Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed at Sandown, Isle of Wight. According to a contemporary report (see link #2):
"G-AIJA Tiger Moth stalled and crashed while landing at Lea aerodrome, Sandown, Isle of Wight, on 22.8.57: after a flight from Fairoaks. Pilot escaped".
Other sources place the crash location at High Park Road, Elmfield, Ryde, Isle of Wight, which is seven miles to the north. [Elmfield is a suburb of the town of Ryde on the Isle of Wight, in England. It is situated south-east of the town centre on a small hill].
30.9.57: Registration cancelled due to 'destruction or permanent withdrawl from use' of aircraft. Wreckage recovered to Fairoaks Aerodrome, Chobham, Surrey and breaking up as spares.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft DA100-DZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain,1987 p.14)
2. Air-Britain: British Civil Aviation News 14 Dec 1957:
3.
https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AIJA.pdf 4.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p855.html 5.
http://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=15914.0 6. G-AIJA at Fairoaks Airfield (EGTF) in 1957:
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1033982 7.
http://wight.hampshireairfields.co.uk/iowc.html 8.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmfield Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
14-Mar-2020 20:15 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
14-Nov-2021 19:18 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, Narrative, Category] |