ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 47305
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| Date: | Wednesday 8 April 1964 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth |
| Owner/operator: | Wiltshire School of Flying |
| Registration: | G-APAI |
| MSN: | 85838 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Chilbolton Airfield, Stonefield Park Lane, Stockbridge, Hampshire -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Thruxton Aerodrome, Andover, Hampshire (EGHO) |
| Chilbolton, Stockbridge, Hampshire | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 85838; Taken on charge by the RAF as DE978, nominally at 15 MU RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire 6.8.42. However, placed into long-term storage in ‘purgatory’ in the Oxfordshire area; returned to Morris Motors, Cowley, Oxford for erection 10.2.44. To 38 MU RAF Llandow, Glamorgan 25.2.44. To 25 [P] EFTS RAF Hucknall, Nottinghamshire 30.6.44 coded ‘71’. To 16 [P] SFTS RAF Hucknall, Nottinghamshire 29.11.45. To 16 EFTS RAF Burnaston, Derbyshire 11.2.46. To Nottingham UAS (University Air Sqaudron) [attached to 16 EFTS at RAF Burnaston] 23.4.47 coded “FLL-B”. To 16 RFS RAF Burnaston, Derbyshire 26.6.47; operated by Nottingham UAS coded “RUN-B”. To 5 RFS RAF Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire 27.6.51 [retained by Nottingham UAS]. To 63 Group Comm Flight, RAF Hawarden, Flintshire 25.2.53. To 9 MU RAF Cosford, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire 3.12.53 for long-term storage pending disposal.
Struck off charge as Cat.5(c) when sold as parts 1.6.54 to Skylines Ltd. Roaded from RAF Burnaston, Derbyshire to Thruxton early in 1957. UK civil registered G-APAI (C of R R5929/1) 3.4.57 to The Wiltshire School of Flying Ltd, Thruxton. Modified to Thruxton Jackaroo (change of type notified on 8.7.57) and C of A issued 22.1.58. C of R No changed to R6066/1 9.7.58. Badly damaged when engine cut on take-off Thruxton 8.8.60; repaired.
Damaged in heavy landing Chilbolton Airfield, Chilbolton, Stonefield Park Lane, Stockbridge, Hampshire 8.4.64.
Registration G-APAI cancelled 1.3.65. Nevertheless, sold on and re-registered (C of R R6066/2) on 9.3.65 to Malcolm Francis Ogilvie-Forbes (Managing Director of the Wiltshire School of Flying), Hurstbourne Tarrant, Andover, Hampshire - presumably for rebuild. No rebuild progressed, and instead broken up for spares at Thruxton in 1965-66. Registration cancelled 3.3.69 by the CAA as "permanently withdrawn from use"
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft DA100-DZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1987 p.18)
2. The British Civil Aircraft Regsiter G-APAA to G-APZZ (Bernard Martin, Air Britain, 1978 p.23)
3. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p858.html
4. http://www.hampshireairfields.co.uk/hancrash.html
5. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-APAI-1.pdf
6. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-APAI-2.pdf
7. http://www.flickr.com/photos/alvaropics/3078258544/
8. http://www.ukserials.com/losses_civil.htm
9. https://www.key.aero/comment/1212676#comment-1212676
10. https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1226537/
11. http://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=15857.0
12. https://www.hampshireairfields.co.uk/airfields/chil.html
13. https://www.chilboltonflyingclub.co.uk/airfield-info
14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Chilbolton#Post-war
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 04-Nov-2008 10:35 | ASN archive | Added |
| 22-May-2014 16:12 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Date, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 09-Mar-2020 17:29 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Source, Narrative] |
| 24-Dec-2021 01:31 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
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