Date:	Thursday 17 February 1977
Time:	day
Type:	De Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	A.W. Shaw
Registration:	ZK-BEF
MSN:	83323
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Minor
Location:	Patoka, Hawke's Bay -   New Zealand
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Hastings (Bridge Pa) Aerodrome, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand (NZHS)
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities

Narrative:
de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 83323; Built by Morris Motors at Cowley, Oxford. Taken on charge by the RAF as T5625 at 2 EFTS RAF Filton, Bristol, Gloucestershire 24.6.40; moved with unit to RAF Staverton, Gloucestershire 8.40. Crashed at Sanbourne, near Redditch, Worcestershire 16.11.40; to DeHavilland for repairs 30.11.40; to 24 MU RAF Ternhill 4.2.41 upon completion of repairs. To 1 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit, Q Flight, RAF Aberporth 23.7.41. To 1609 (Anti-Aircraft Co-operation) Flight, RAF Aberporth 1.10.42. Unit Reformed as 595 Squadron, RAF Aberporth 3.12.43. To 38 MU RAF Llandow, Glamorgan 13.7.45 for long-term storage pending disposal.

Struck off charge when sold 27.8.46 to Herts & Essex Aviation Ltd, Broxbourne. Regd G-AIDR (CofR 10587) 22.8.46 to Herts & Essex Aero Club (1946) Ltd, Broxbourne, Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire. One of twelve Tiger Moths damaged in a hangar fire at Broxbourne 23.6.47, prior to overhaul but repaired. CofA 9717 issued 14.11.47. New C of R No.R2583 issued 6.2.50 (and Broxbourne address amended from "Waltham Cross, Herefordshire" to "Nazeing, Essex"). Registration G-AIDR cancelled 16.11.53 as 'subsequently sold to New Zealand'.

Re-registered in New Zealand as ZK-BEF 6.1.54 to J M “Jim” McMahon, Tauranga. NZ C of A issued 19.2.54. Re-registered 23.2.54 to H Allen Mills Ltd, Rotorua. Badly damaged on landing The Chateau, Tongariro 5.7.54; repaired and returned to service. Re-registered 20.8.54 to Aircraft Sales & Service Ltd. Re-registered 4.12.54 to Tauranga Aero Club, Tauranga. Badly damaged on landing Tauranga 11.1.58; repaired and returned to service.

Re-registered (at an unknown date) to V Swanson & J S McMaster, Featherstone. Substantially damaged when crashed 26.1.67 at Pirinoa, New Zealand; pilot J S McMaster. Pirinoa is a rural community east of Lake Wairarapa, in the South Wairarapa District and Wellington Region of New Zealand's North Island.

Re-registered in 1968 to Ian Bennie, Auckland. Re-registered 5.1.70 to D L Sterling, Matakohe. Re-registered 7.5.70 to A W Shaw, Hastings. Badly damaged when struck ground while low flying near Onga Onga 13.12.70. Onga Onga is a village in Central Hawkes Bay District of New Zealand's North Island. It is located 20 kilometres west of Waipawa and a similar distance from Waipukurau

Rebuilt [1971] using spares from Tiger Moth NZ810 (MSN DHNZ.60). Crashed 17.2.77 at Patoka, Hawke's Bay; pilot/owner A W. Shaw injured. Patoka is a rural community in the Hastings District and Hawke's Bay Region of New Zealand's North Island. It is located at base of the Kaweka Range and Kaweka Forest Park.

Repair and returned to service. Re-registered 29.5.78 to Graeme C Taylor, Hastings. Re-registered 8.3.93 to Central Hawkes Bay Aero Club, Waipukurau. For sale ‘as is’ 2017. Re-registered 18.1.18 to Darren J Luff, Wanganui. Currently registered.

1. AHSNZ, 1977, Newsletter 4; http://www.ahsnz.org.nz/Febuary-1977
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft T1000-V9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AIDR.pdf
4. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p833.html
6. http://archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewEntity.do?code=7333
7. http://www.edcoatescollection.com/ac2/NZBA/ZK-BEF.html
8. Tiger Moth ZK-BEF at Hastings (NZHS) in 1954: https://www.airhistory.net/photo/244874/ZK-BEF
9. https://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/ZK-BEF.html
10. https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/registration/ZK-BEF
11. https://www.regosearch.com/aircraft/nz/BEF
12. https://www.jetphotos.com/registration/ZK-BEF
13. Tiger Moth ZK-BEF (as G-AIDR) at Broxbourne 1.7.52: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dwhitworth/5526055936/
14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patoka,_New_Zealand

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

5 July 1954	ZK-BEF	H A Mills	0	Chateau Tongariro, Tongariro NP		sub
4 April 1959	ZK-BEF	Tauranga Aero Club	0	Opotiki Airfield, Bay of Plenty 3		sub
26 January 1967	ZK-BEF	V Swanson & K S McMaster	0	Pirinoa, Wairarapa		sub
13 December 1970	ZK-BEF	A W Shaw	0	Ongaonga, Hawke's Bay		sub

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
22-May-2009 12:58	XLerate	Added
05-Oct-2021 07:01	Ron Averes	Updated [Date, Cn, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Damage]
08-Jan-2022 17:00	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Category]
26-Jan-2022 04:28	Ron Averes	Updated [Aircraft type, Location]