Date:	Monday 30 May 1983
Time:	17:35 .
Type:	De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	David Ronald Wood
Registration:	G-ANCX
MSN:	83719
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Substantial
Location:	Sevenoaks Weald, 3 miles South of Sevenoaks, Kent -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Biggin Hill Airport, Biggin Hill, Bromley, Kent (BQH/EGKB)
Destination airport:	Biggin Hill Airport, Biggin Hill, Bromley, Kent (BQH/EGKB)
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 83719; Taken on charge with the RAF as T7229 at 20 MU RAF Aston Down, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire 15.8.40. To RAF Hornchurch, Essex 23.5.41. To Northolt Station Flight, RAF Northolt, Middlesex 14.5.42. To 29 MU RAF High Ercall, Shropshire 3.2.43. To 14 EFTS RAF Elmdon, Warwickshire 2.6.43. To 8 MU RAF Little Rissington, Gloucestershire 29.1.46. To 17 RFS, RAF Hornchurch, Essex 29.7.49 coded "RCJ-O", later "25". To 9 MU RAF Cosford, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire 23.7.52 for storge pending disposal.

Struck off charge when sold 10.9.53 to Fairey Aero Club, White Waltham, Maidenhead, Berkshire. UK civil registered as G-ANCX (C of R R4115/1) 15.9.53 to The Fairey Aviation Co Ltd, White Waltham. Maidenhead, Berkshire. C of A issued 6.10.53. Delivered to Croydon [by road] on 24.11.55. Registration cancelled 28.11.55 and re-registered (C of R R4115/2) on 7.12.55 to William Alfred Webb, t/a The Flight Servicing Co, East Sheen, London SW.14 (aircraft remained based at Croydon). Abortive sale to Norway in May 1956: Registration G-ANCX cancelled in relation to this 17.5.56. Sale fell through and registration restored (C of R R4115/3) on 1.6.56 to William Cooper, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.

Registration cancelled 21.8.57 and re-registered (C of R R4115/4) on 29.8.57 to Harold Nordan, George Walter Sammons, Reginald Morris Howson & Cornelius Patrick Nolan, trustees of the assets of the 32 Group, Elmdon, Birmingham. Nominal changes:- cancelled 9.2.58 and re-registered (C of R R4115/5) on 14.2.58 to William John Ladd Rees, Harold Nordan, George Walter Sammons, Reginald Morris Howson, Cornelius Patrick Nolan, Thomas Nolan, John Frederick George Hill, George Preston Macintosh & Frank Bernard Barnsley (change of Trustees of the 32 Group). Registration cancelled 28.4.60 and re-registered (C of R R4115/6) on 30.5.60 to Harold Nordan, William John Ladd Rees, George Preston Macintosh, Frank Bernard Barnsley & Cornelius Patrick Nolan (again due to change of the Trustees making up the 32 Group).

Crashed into trees on take-off at Oldberrow, Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire 1.4.61; repaired and returned to service. Registation cancelled 25.5.65 and re-registered 7.9.65 (C of R R4115/7) to Cyril Charles Offwood, John Deryk Hoppett & Gordon Peter Nicholls, trustees of the assets of the Zero Tiger Group, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. Nominal change adding Alan Sloan Harper (regsitration canclled 19.10.65 and registration restored (C of R R4115/8) on 15.11.65). G-ANCX was invovled in an incident at around this time, according to an article in the 'Wolverhampton Star' of 31.12.2020 recalling Wolverhampton (Pendeford) Airport):

"In 1964 I was working for Yale and Towne in Wednesfield, and applied to the airport for a part-time job, evenings and weekends, and after a short interview with Mr Holden, the manager, began immediately doing odd jobs around the site.

It was a legal requirement that at least four people were on site for safety cover to allow flying to continue, and I was there to make up the numbers on one or two evenings after work, and on either Saturday or Sunday. Manning the crash tender was one of the duties, and three incidents stick out in my mind." (One of them involved Tiger Moth G-ANCX...)

"The third time we had to attend a forced landing at the back of the former Boulton and Paul factory. A Tiger Moth, G-ANCX I think, was the registration, had just been serviced, and on its first flight, the propeller end cap, or spinner, became loose, came off, and was hit by the propeller and several inches of the wooden end were broken off. The aircraft became unflyable due to the vibration, so was throttled back and came down in a newly ploughed field, unfortunately across the furrows! No-one was hurt, and the aircraft was soon recovered for repair and checking over".

Registration cancelled 11.3.67 and re-registered (C of R R4115/9) on 6.4.67 to Robin Alfred Rackham, Shoreham, Kent. Registration cancelled 22.7.67 and re-registered (C of R R4115/10) on 15.8.67 to David Ronald Wood, Pembury, Tunbridge Wells, Kent (aircraft based at Biggin Hill, Kent).

Damaged when overturned in forced landing Sevenoaks Weald, approximately 3 miles South of Sevenoaks, Kent on 30.5.83 following engine failure after take-off. According to the following summary into the incident (see link #10):

"On the afternoon of 30 May 1983 Tiger Moth G-ANCX took off from Biggin Hill Airfield. It climbed to about 2,000 feet and, as it levelled out, its engine failed. Presumably it was too far out of Biggin Hill to be able to return to the airfield. Thus it made a forced landing in a location given in the AAIB report as 'Weald, Kent'. This in fact was the village of Weald (sometimes called Sevenoaks Weald), which is due south of Sevenoaks and south-east of Biggin Hill.

The field in which it made its forced landing had a soft surface, so that the main undercarriage wheels dug in and the Tiger Moth pitched over onto its nose. As a result its propeller, engine cowling, undercarriage and fuel tank were damaged. Neither the pilot nor his passenger were injured. The former attributed the cause of the engine failure to fuel contamination". (see link #8 for the AAIB Report)

Sevenoaks Weald is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. The parish is located on the Low Weald, immediately south of Sevenoaks town, with the village of Sevenoaks Weald at its centre. It was formed in 1894 from part of the ancient parish of Sevenoaks

Repaired and returned to service; later based Fowle Hall Farm, Paddock Wood, Kent, later still at Laddingford near Yalding, Kent. C of A lapsed 28.7.2002. Presumably withdrawn from use and stored, as advertised for sale in 2008. Sold 17.5.2010 to Karin Verbinnen, Schilde, Belgium. Registration G-ANCX cancelled 17.5.2010 as 'sold to USA'.

Sold 28.7.2010 and registered in the USA as N276AW 23.8.2010 to Southern Aircraft Consultancy Inc [Lawrence A Chmura] (as trustee), Dereham, Norfolk. Nominally sold [undated] back to Karin Verbinnen, Schilde, Belgium. Sold 16.12.2010 to Eric Lison, Wilrijk, Antwerp. Sold [at an unknown date] and registered 14.1.2011 (back) to Southern Aircraft Consultancy Inc (as Trustee). (Reported as being actually owned during these various transactions by Peter Winters in Belgium; aircraft retained US Regsitration N276AW). US Registration N276AW cancelled 15.12.2011 as 'exported to UK'.

Re-registered (C of R R.4115/11) as G-ANCX 22.12.2011 to Eric Norbert Karel Lison, Wilrijk, Belgium; on rebuild in Raymond Cuypers Antwerp workshop [by 2.2014 until 8.2016]. Registration G-ANCX cancelled 26.10.2017 as 'sold to Belgium'. Re-registered in Belgium as OO-MOT (C of R 10836) 16.11.2017 to Eric Norbert Karel Lison, Antwerp; still on rebuild [in 2019; according to the website of the rebuilder - see link #19 - restoration was "75% complete" by the end of 2021]

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft T1000-V9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1980)
2. Sevenoaks Chronicle - Saturday 4 June 1983
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ANCX-1.pdf
4. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ANCX-2.pdf
5. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ANCX-3.pdf
6. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ANCX-4.pdf
7. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
8. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p837.html
9. AAIB Bulletin No: 9/83 Ref: EW/G83/05/11 at https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5422f01fe5274a13140002c3/De_Havilland_DH82A_Tiger_Moth_G-ANCX_09-83.pdf
10. https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=N276AW
11. http://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=18695.0
12. Tiger Moth G-ANCX various photos 18.5.57 to 31.8.2007: https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=N276AW
13. https://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Serial=109410
14. https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/features/2020/12/31/golden-memories-of-wolverhampton-airport/
15. Tiger Moth G-ANCX at Pendeford, Wolverhampton c.1964: https://atchistory.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/pendeford.jpg
16. Tiger Moth G-ANCX at Redhill c.1965: https://www.oldreigate.com/index.php?goto=picture_3914&prevurl=year1965
17. Tiger Moth G-ANCX at Biggin Hill in the Summer of 1976: https://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/000291257.html
18. Tiger Moth G-ANCX at West Malling, Maidstone, Kent 29.8.88: https://www.airhistory.net/photo/119661/G-ANCX
19. http://www.fifeflyingclub.co.uk/jdownloads/Fife%20Flying%20Club%20Newsletters/2020-07.pdf
20. http://www.rar.be/current-project/dehavilland-dh-82a-tiger-moth-oo-mot/
21. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevenoaks_Weald

Birmingham (Elmdon) Airport (EGBB), West Midlands, UK. - 18th May 1957

Tiger Moth G-ANCX at the 10th and Last Great Warbirds Air Display, West Malling, Kent 25 August 1991.

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
07-Jul-2020 17:49	Peter Clarke	Added
11-Jan-2022 22:15	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category]
12-Jan-2022 17:08	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Location]
12-Jan-2022 17:19	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Location, Narrative]
19-Sep-2022 11:45	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Source, Embed code]