Date:	Sunday 20 December 1959
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	Norman Peter Gibbs
Registration:	G-APAW
MSN:	85263
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Redhill Aerodrome, Nutfield, Redhill, Surrey -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Redhill Aerodrome, Nutfield, Redhill, Surrey (EGKR)
Destination airport:	Redhill Aerodrome, Nutfield, Redhill, Surrey (EGKR)
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 85263; Taken on charge by the RAF as DE206 at 45 MU RAF Kinloss, Morayshire 2.1.42. To 15 EFTS RAF Carlisle, Cumberland 8.2.42 coded “107”. To 25 [P]EFTS RAF Hucknall, Nottinghamshire 26.7.45 coded ‘52’. To 20 MU RAF Aston Down, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire 21.12.45 for long-term storage pending disposal.

Struck off charge when sold 6.11.53 to A J Whittemore [Aeradio] Ltd, Croydon Airport, Croydon, Surrey. First civil registered (C of R 5953/1) as G-APAW on 11.4.57 to Rollason Aircraft & Engines Ltd, Croydon. C of A A.5953 issued 30.9.57. Registration G-APAW cancelled/lapsed 1.10.57. Re-registered (C of R5953/2) on 9.10.57 to Norman Peter Gibbs, London NW3 (aircraft based at Redhill). G-APAW had a modified luggage locker to carry the owner's violin!

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 20.12.59 when force landed at Redhill Airfield, Redhill, Surrey after an engine failure. Registration G-APAW cancelled 20.12.59 as aircraft "destroyed"; presumably cancelled retrospectively, as the CAA documentation states "confirmed 7-10-63". The delay in cancelling the registration may have been because the owner hoped to restore it to airworthy condition (its remains were noted in the Rollason hangar at Croydon Airport in February 1960).

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft DA100-DZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1987 p.10)
2. The British Civil Aircraft Register G-APAA to G-APZZ (Bernard Martin, Air Britain, 1978 p.15)
3. Unsolved Aviation Mysteries: Five Strange Tales of Air and Sea By Keith McCloskey
4. G-APAW at Baginton, Coventry May 1959: https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1385307
5. G-APAW at Sywell 1958: http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1077708/
6. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-APAW.pdf
7. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p852.html
8. http://www.ukserials.com/losses_civil.htm
9. http://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=15960.0
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redhill_Aerodrome .

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
04-Nov-2008 10:35	ASN archive	Added
22-May-2014 16:39	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Date, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
15-Dec-2014 14:31	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Embed code]
12-Mar-2020 18:45	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Source, Narrative]
08-Dec-2021 19:28	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category]
08-Dec-2021 19:30	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]