Date:	Wednesday 8 October 1941
Time:	day
Type:	De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	1 EFTS RAF
Registration:	N6486
MSN:	3823
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Barton-in-the-Clay, Bedfordshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Hatfield, Hertfordshire (EGTH)
Destination airport:	RAF Hatfield, Hertfordshire (EGTH)

Narrative:
De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 3823 (Gipsy Major #80763); Taken on charge as N6486 at 9 MU RAF Cosford, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire 12.1.39. To 7 E&RFTS, RAF Desford, Leciestershire 8.3.39. Unit renamed 7 EFTS 9.39. Crashed 7.6.41 at RAF Desford, Leicestershire; pilot, Leading Aircraftman E Dixon injured. To DeHavilland for repairs 10.6.41. To 1 EFTS Hatfield 14.8.41 upon completion of repairs.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) when collided with Airspeed Oxford P1967 and crashed at Barton-in-the-Clay, Bedfordshire 8.10.41 during a low-level NAVEX (navigation exercise); pilot, Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Anderson KNUDSON (Service Number 657973, aged 25) killed in Tiger Moth N6486.

The three crew of Oxford P1967 were also killed: Leading Aircraftsman S Sunderland, Leading Aircraftsman D R W Stiven, and Leading Aircraftsman K A Knudson.

Barton-le-Clay is a large village and a civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire Borough in Bedfordshire, England, bordering Hertfordshire. Tiger Moth N6486 was struck off charge 12.10.41 as FACE (Flying Accident Cat.E)

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft N1000-N9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
2. Accident 7.6.41: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/6777: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16756074
3. Accident 8.10.41: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/9482: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16997729
4. CWGC: https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2932795/kenneth-anderson-knudson/
5. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
6. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p038.html
7. http://www.rafweb.org/Members%20Pages/Casualties/1940s/1941/Casualties_1941_10-1.htm
8. http://www.rafcommands.com/database/wardead/details.php?qnum=87762
9. http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?3790-411008-Unaccounted-airmen-8-10-1941&highlight=KNUDSON&p=20764#post20764
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barton-le-Clay#War_memorials

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
20-Feb-2022 17:50	Dr. John Smith	Added
20-Feb-2022 17:54	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]
20-Feb-2022 23:56	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]
09-Mar-2022 13:09	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Date]