ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 63730
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| Date: | Friday 27 April 1956 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  De Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth |
| Owner/operator: | Kawerau Aero Club |
| Registration: | ZK-BGD |
| MSN: | 84242 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Kawerau, Bay of Plenty 3 -
 New Zealand
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Kawerau, Kawerau District, Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
de Havilland DH82a Tiger Moth MSN 84242; Taken on charge as T7870 nominally at 15 MU, RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire 5.2.41. However, placed into long-term storage in ‘purgatory’ at Rockley Farm, Cumnor, Oxfordshire; returned to Morris Motors, Cowley, Oxford, for erection 9.7.41. To 6 EFTS RAF Sywell, Northamptonshire 16.7.41. To 29 EFTS RAF Clyffe Pypard 1.4.47. To 1 FTS, RAF Spitalgate, Grantham, Lincolnshire 22.7.47, coded “FCE-F”. To Central Flying School, RAF Little Rissington, Gloucestershire 4.2.48. To 7 FTS RAF Cottesmore, Oakham, Rutland 22.9.48. To 39 MU RAF Colerne, Wilthsire 16.6.49, coded ‘5K-B’. To Colerne Station Flight 6.50. To 33 MU RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire 6.10.53 for long-term storage pending disposal.
Struck off charge when sold 8.3.54 to Muir & Adie Ltd., Croydon Airport, Croydon, Surrey. UK civil registered as G-ANOT (C of R R4487/1) 4.3.54 to Muir & Adie Ltd, Croydon. C of A issued 13.5.54. Registration G-ANOT cancelled 18.5.54 as 'sold to New Zealand'.
Re-registered in New Zealand as ZK-BGD 6.8.54 to Thames Aerial Topdressing Co Ltd, Thames. NZ C of A issued 6.8.54. Re-registered 12.8.54 to V.L. Dunne, Cambridge. Re-registered 16.2.55 to Kawerau Aero Club, Kawerau.
Badly damaged in forced landing in bad weather near Kawerau 27.4.56. Pilot T. Lilley. [Kawerau is a town in the Bay of Plenty region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is situated 100 km south-east of Tauranga and 58 km east of Rotorua at approximate coordinates 38°6′0″S, 176°42′0″E]
Re-registered 10.4.57 to S.R. Bethune, Pukeatua [for breaking up as spares use]. Scrapped 5.57-7.57 to rebuild Tiger Moth ZK-BGS [MSN 85106]. Registration ZK-BGD cancelled 30.3.61.
Remains stored [1.2015] by John Gallagher, Loftus, NSW for potential rebuild
Sources:
1. http://archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewEntity.do?code=7333
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft T1000-V9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
3. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p842.html
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawerau
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 22-May-2009 12:58 | XLerate | Added |
| 20-Jul-2009 22:13 | angels one five | Updated |
| 12-Oct-2013 09:17 | angels one five | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Location, Narrative] |
| 06-Oct-2021 21:12 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 30-Oct-2021 17:29 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative, Category] |
| 26-Nov-2021 02:33 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 29-Jan-2022 06:51 | Ron Averes | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 14-Feb-2022 02:44 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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