ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 71634
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| Date: | Thursday 23 June 1932 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.60X Cirrus II Moth |
| Owner/operator: | Finnish Air Force |
| Registration: | MO-96 |
| MSN: | VL-1 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Kortesjärvi, Southern Ostrobothnia -
 Finland
|
| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Kauhava Airfield, Kauhava, Finland (EFKA) |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
A licence was granted to Valtion Lentokonetehdas [State Aircraft Factory] in March 1928 for the production of DH.60Xs for the Finnish Air Force. Ten Cirrus II Moths were built in 1929, followed by eleven Cirrus Hermes II Moths in 1930. The latter were known as Harka-Moth [Bull Moth]. MO-96 was the first Finnish-built Moth, with a Cirrus Hermes II engine
MO-96 first flew in January 1929 and was delivered to Finnish Air Force on 2.2.29. Written off (destroyed) when stalled and crashed at Kortesjärvi 23.6.32; 1 of the two on board killed. Struck off charge 17.4.37
Kortesjärvi is a former municipality of Finland. It was consolidated, together with Alahärmä and Ylihärmä, to Kauhava on 1 January 2009. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southern Ostrobothnia region.
NOTE: Several published sources confuse and conflate the crash of Moth MO-96 on 23.6.32 (as per the above) with the crash of Moth MO-99 near Alahärmä, Southern Ostrobothnia, Finland on 8.12.32 (see separate entry), probably due to the close geographical proximity of the two crash locations.
Sources:
1. Finnish aviation accident database
2. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/pFin.html
3. https://ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh60.pdf
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kortesj%C3%A4rvi
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 19-Jan-2010 07:06 | slowkid | Added |
| 09-Feb-2014 20:52 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Cn, Location, Phase, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 19-Jan-2024 15:57 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
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