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Date: | Thursday 7 August 1941 |
Time: | day |
Type: | De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth |
Owner/operator: | 11 EFTS RAF |
Registration: | T7362 |
MSN: | 83672 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Other fatalities: | 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Kingswell Wood, St Martins, near Scone, Perthshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Perth/Scone, New Scone, Perth (PSL/EGPT) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 83672; Taken on charge as T7362 at 46 MU RAF Lossiemouth, Morayshire 25.9.40. To 11 EFTS RAF Perth/Scone, Perthshire 9.12.40.
Written off when collided with Tiger Moth T7341; dived into the ground and destroyed by fire at Kingswell Wood, St Martins, near Scone, Perthshire 7.8.41; three crew killed - Sergeant Owen Robert Bruce Dick (Service Number 1288945, Instructor Pilot, aged 32) and Leading Aircraftman Dennis Frank Vaughan (Service Number 655842, pilot under taining, aged 23) (in Tiger Moth T7362) - along with Leading Aircraftman Edward Henry Ridgewell (in Tiger Moth T7341). Wreckage recovered to 1 MPRD (Metal Produce Recovery Depot), Cowley, Oxfordshire 12.8.41 and Struck off charge 14.8.41 as FACE (Flying Accident Cat.E).
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft T1000-V9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, p,60)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR81/8275:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16757572 3. CWGC:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2457934/owen-robert-bruce-dick/ 4. CWGC:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2691904/dennis-frank-vaughan/ 5.
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf 6.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p836.html 7.
http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?3406-410807-Unaccounted-airmen-7-8-1941/page2 8.
http://www.rafweb.org/Members%20Pages/Casualties/1940s/1941/Casualties_1941_08-1.htm 9.
https://www.roadonmap.com/uk/where-is/St_Martins,scotland Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
06-Mar-2022 21:16 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
06-Mar-2022 21:24 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
08-Mar-2022 18:18 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |