Date:	Monday 5 May 1952
Time:	day
Type:	De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	1 RFS RAF
Registration:	EM836
MSN:	86038
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Panshanger Airfield, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	Panshanger Aerodrome, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire (EGLG)
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 86038; Taken on charge as EM836 at 1 EFTS RAF Holwell Hyde (later renamed RAF Panshanger), Welwyn Garden City, Herfordshire 2.4.43 coded "1". Fitted with bombs for trials. In "Operation Banquet", bomb-carrying Tiger Moths would have attacked German troops on the invasion beaches

To 1 RFS RAF Panshanger, Hertfordshire 26.6.47. To 17 RFS RAF Hornchurch, Essex 13.7.50; coded "RCJ-G", later "17". To 1 RFS RAF Panshanger, Hertfordshire 12.6.51; coded “RCM-I”

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 5.5.52. The aircraft began to drift shortly after take off from Panshanger Airfield, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, and a strong gust of wind caused the aircraft to stall and turn over. No reported injuries to the crew.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.127 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft EA100-EZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.244
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p860.html
5. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
6. https://www.key.aero/article/story-behind-operation-banquet
7. https://www.prints-online.com/royal-aeronautical-society/photographic-new-photographic-content/havilland-dh82a-tiger-moth-ii-em836-10632718.html
8. https://www.agefotostock.com/age/en/details-photo/de-havilland-dh82a-tiger-moth-ii-em836/MEV-10992226 [photo - at 1 EFTS in 1943-44]
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panshanger_Aerodrome#Wartime_history

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
06-Mar-2021 15:18	Dr. John Smith	Added
06-Mar-2021 17:43	Froome	Updated [Operator, Operator]
08-Mar-2021 18:31	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]
07-Oct-2021 22:23	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative, Category]
08-Oct-2021 22:05	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]