ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 17126
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| Date: | Friday 13 December 1946 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.82a Tiger Moth |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | OO-CCW |
| MSN: | 85341 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Mitwaba Airport, Mitwaba, Haut-Katanga Province -
 Congo (Democratic Republic)
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Mitwabu, Belgian Congo (FZQV) |
| Mitwabu, Belgian Congo (FZQV) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
de Havilland DH.82a Tiger Moth MSN 85341: Taken on charge as DE307 at 46 MU RAF Lossiemouth 28.1.42. To 22 MU RAF Silloth, Cumberland 31.1.42; returned to 46 MU RAF Lossiemouth 14.2.42. To 222 MU RAF High Ercall, Shropshire 10.11.42 and allocated to Southern Rhodesia 15.11.42. Despatched ex-Glasgow 28.11.42 on the .s.s "Clan Macdonald"; arrived Port Elizabeth, South Africa 9.1.43. For sale by tender 10.45; sold to H.T. Smith, Mazabuka for £350. Struck off charge as 'sold locally' 12.3.47.
Registered as VP-RAI in 1946 to Flying Club of Northern Rhodesia, Nkana. Re-registered in Belgian Congo as OO-CCW (C of R C76) 12.12.46 to B.N. (or M.R.N.) Kirchhof, Elizabethville (based Mitwaba).
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 13.12.46 when crashed on landing at Mitwaba, (then in the Belgian Congo). Mitwaba Airport (ICAO: FZQV) is an airport serving the town of Mitwaba, Haut-Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Registration OO-CCW cancelled 10.2.47.
Sources:
1. Belgian Civil Aircraft since 1920 / J.Appleton and A. Thys, 1980 (ISBN 0 904597 25 3)
2. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p853.html
3. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
4. https://www.stanleyville.be/documents/9Q.pdf
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitwaba_Airport
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 06-Apr-2008 07:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 24-Feb-2012 15:13 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
| 20-Jul-2021 20:42 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
| 20-Jul-2021 20:45 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source] |
| 29-Aug-2021 01:50 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
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