ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 238152
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| Date: | Sunday 17 August 1952 |
| Time: | 16:00 |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth |
| Owner/operator: | Aéro-Club de Caen-Carpiquet |
| Registration: | F-BGDY |
| MSN: | 86612 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | May-sur-Orne, Calvados, Normandy -
 France
|
| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Demo/Airshow/Display |
| Departure airport: | Caen–Carpiquet Airport, Calvados, Normandy, France (LFRK) |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 86612; Taken on charge as PG715 notionally at 15 MU RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire 30.6.44. However, placed into long-term storage locally in ‘purgatory’ in the Oxfordshire area; returned to Morris Motors, Cowley, Oxfordshire for erection [undated, but probably June 1945]. To 20 MU RAF Aston Down, Minichinhampton, Gloucestershire 30.6.45. To RAF St Mawgan, Cornwall 11.4.46 and ferried to French AF 26.4.46; arrived Romorantin, France 30.4.46. To Ecole de Transformation Moniteurs, (BE705) Cognac. Crashed at Cognac Chateaubernard, France 25.6.47; repaired and returned to service.
Inspected at Caen–Carpiquet Airport 7.6.51 and then civil registered in France as F-BGDY 26.6.51 to Aéro-Club de Caen–Carpiquet Airport, Caen, Normandy, France.
Written off (destroyed) 17.8.52 when stalled and crashed at May-sur-Orne; Crashed and burned when giving an aerobatics display during Air Meeting. Both crew killed. Registration F-BGDY cancelled as "destroyed" 6.1.53.
According to a rough translation from French into English of the file in the French National Archvies [see link #2]:
"File No B-3033
- Registration F-BGDY
- Operator from 06.26.1951 - The De Havilland aircraft LTD
- Type Tiger-moth DH 82A No. PG-715
- Owner French State
- Loaned to the Caen aero-club
- PO Box 306 in Caen
- CAEN aerodrome (14)
- Struck off 06.01.1953 - destroyed - accident of 17.08.52."
The reported crash location of May-sur-Orne is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France at approximate coordinates 49°6′2.88″N, 0°22′21″W. The aircraft took off from (and was based at Caen–Carpiquet Airport (French: Aéroport de Caen-Carpiquet) (IATA: CFR, ICAO: LFRK) an airport located in Carpiquet, 6 km west of Caen, both communes of the Calvados département in the Normandy (formerly Lower Normandy) region of France.
Sources:
1. L'Echo d'Oran 18 August 1952
2. French National Archives File No. B-3033:
3. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p866.html
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May-sur-Orne
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caen_%E2%80%93_Carpiquet_Airport#The_military_base_(1939-1967) .
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 16-Jul-2020 14:23 | TB | Added |
| 21-Sep-2021 20:58 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
| 21-Sep-2021 21:00 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 21-Sep-2021 21:03 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 03-Oct-2021 17:56 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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