Date:	Tuesday 29 June 1965
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	Aero Club di Roma
Registration:	I-PUMA
MSN:	85496
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Aeroporto di Roma-Urbe, Rome, Lazio -   Italy
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Roma Urbe Airport, Rome, Lazio (LIRU)
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 85496; Taken on charge by the RAF as DE516 at 24 MU RAF Ternhill, Shropshire 7.3.42. To 29 MU RAF High Ercall, Shropshire 5.4.42. To 16 EFTS RAF Burnaston, Derbyshire 21.6.42. To 19 FTS RAF Cranwell, Sleaford, Lincolnshire 30.7.45; to RAF College Cranwell 17.4.47. To 24 RFS RAF Rochester, Kent 5.7.47 coded “RCV-L”. To 14 RFS RAF Hamble, Hampshire 8.6.51. To 9 MU RAF Cosford, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire 24.10.52 for storage pending disposal.

Struck off charge when sold 5.11.53 to A J Whittemore [Aeradio] Ltd, Croydon Airport, Croydon, Surrey. UK civil registered as G-APOC (C of R R6414/1) 11.7.58 to Rollason Aircraft & Engines Ltd, Croydon. First flown 31.10.58 and C ofA issued 7.11.58. Registration G-APOC cancelled 7.11.58 as 'sold to Rome - I-PUMA'.

Delivered ex-Croydon 15.11.58 and registered in Italy as I-PUMA 28.1.59 to Aero Club Roma, Aeroporto di Roma-Urbe, Rome, Lazio.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed Aeroporto di Roma-Urbe, Rome, Lazio, Italy 29.6.65.

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft DA100-DZ999 (James J. Halley, Air Brtiain 1987 p.18)
2. The British Civil Aircraft Regsitration G-APAA to G-APZZ (Bernard Martin, Air Britain, 1978 p.43)
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-APOC.pdf
4. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p854.html
6. Tiger Moth I-PUMA at Croydon in October 1958: https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1059672/
7. https://aflyinghistory.com/search-aeroplane-photographs?query=I-PUMA
8. http://raciweb.altervista.org/registro.php?marche=I-PUMA
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_Urbe_Airport

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
27-Sep-2008 01:00	ASN archive	Added
24-Feb-2012 16:38	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Nature, Source, Damage, Narrative]
26-May-2014 20:38	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
27-Dec-2021 02:35	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Category]