ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 63488
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| Date: | Friday 1 August 1958 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  De Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth |
| Owner/operator: | Southland & Otago Aerial Topdressing Co Ltd |
| Registration: | ZK-BJO |
| MSN: | 83713 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Location: | Heriot, Otago -
 New Zealand
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Agricultural |
| Departure airport: | Heriot, West Otago, New Zealand |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 83713; Taken on charge by the RAF as T7392, nominally at 15 MU RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire 30.9.40. However, placed into long-term storage in ‘purgatory’ at Poultry Market, Bicester, Oxfrodshire; returned to Morris Motors, Cowley, Oxford, 13.9.41 for erection. To 29 EFTS RAF Clyffe Pypard 20.9.41. Damaged port wings when struck by Liberator AL538 at RAF Clyffe Pypard 18.10.42; repaired and returned to service. To 5 MU RAF Kemble, Gloucestershire 22.3.46 for long-term storage pending disposal.
Struck off charge when sold 3.4.51 to The Wiltshire School of Flying Ltd. Officially UK civil registered as G-AMMN 4.10.51 but this allocation was later amended to T7386 on 25.2.52. (T7386 thus became G-AMMN, thence to New Zealand as ZK-BCB)
Re-registered in New Zealand as ZK-BJO on 28.3.55 to Aircraft Service (NZ) Ltd, Ardmore. NZ C of A issued 22.4.55. Regd 5.55 to Farmers Aviation Ltd. Re-registerd 11.9.57 to Aviation Sales & Service Ltd, Palmerston North. Re-registered 5.6.58 to Southland & Otago Aerial Topdressing Co Ltd, Dunedin.
Badly damaged on take-off Heriot, West Otago 11.8.58; pilot S A Fitzgerald. Heriot is a small settlement in West Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand. It is located 20 kilometres southwest of Raes Junction and 15 kilometres north of Tapanu.
Presumably repaired and returned to service, as re-registered 28.7.61 to Gore Aero Engineering Ltd. Re-registered 27.2.62 to M Black, Waipahi. Re-registered 9.2.64 to Whanganui Gliding Club. Withdrawn from use and registration ZK-BJO cancelled 21.7.71. Rebuilt and re-registerd 27.4.72 to I C Dittmer, Featherston (with MSN "T7392R"). On rebuild (1978). Registration cancelled as withdrawn from use 11.5.98. Stored (1998).
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft T1000-V9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
2. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AMMN.pdf
3. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p837.html
5. http://archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewEntity.do?code=7333
6. http://www.flydw.org.uk/DWZKBIQ.htm
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heriot,_New_Zealand
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 22-May-2009 12:58 | XLerate | Added |
| 28-Nov-2021 23:04 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative, Category] |
| 26-Jan-2022 05:03 | Ron Averes | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 06-Feb-2022 01:25 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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