Date:	Tuesday 1 July 1952
Time:	day
Type:	De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	Dyce SF RAF
Registration:	T7737
MSN:	84119
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Dyce, Aberdeenshire, Scotland -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Dyce, Aberdeen (EGPD)
Destination airport:	RAF Dyce, Aberdeen (EGPD)
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 84119; Taken on charge as T7737, nominally at 15 MU RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire 28.12.40. However, placed into long-term storage in ‘purgatory’ at Laytons Garage, Bicester, Oxfordshire; returned to Morris Motors at Cowley, Oxford, 9.6.41 for erection. To RAF Leeming 17.6.41. To Dishforth Station Flight, RAF Dishforth, North Yorkshire 2.8.41. To RAF Topcliffe Station Flight [by 31.12.42]. To 21 EFTS RAF Booker, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire 15.11.44. To 9 MU RAF Cosford, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire 1.8.45 for long-term storage. To RAF Dyce, Aberdeen 26.5.52 for use by the Station Flight

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 1.7.52, in a take off accident at RAF Dyce, Aberdeen. Swung on takeoff and hit another parked Tiger Moth (R5241). Tiger Moth T7737 overturned and was damaged beyond repair. No reported injuries to the crew of either aircraft.

Damaged airframe recovered to 63 MU RAF Carluke where Struck Off Charge as Cat.5(scrap) 17.7.52

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.129 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft T1000-V9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.264
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p841.html
5. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
6. Photo of Tiger Moth R5241 (the other aircraft involved): https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1349475
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdeen_Airport#Early_years

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
15-Mar-2021 14:51	Dr. John Smith	Added
08-Apr-2021 15:52	Heil	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator]
07-Oct-2021 23:08	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category]
08-Oct-2021 22:02	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]