Date:	Thursday 1 May 1958
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.82a Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	Aeroclub du Hainault
Registration:	OO-EVI
MSN:	85969
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Baudour, Saint-Ghislain, Hainaut -   Belgium
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	Casteau, Soignies, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium.
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
de Havilland DH.82a Tiger Moth MSN 85969; Taken on charge as EM738 notionally at 15 MU RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire 28.1.43. However, placed into long-term storage locally in ‘purgatory’ in the Oxfordshire area; returned to Morris Motors, Cowley, Oxfordshire for erection 11.5.44. To 14 EFTS RAF Elmdon, Birmingham 25.5.44. To 9 MU RAF Cosford, Wolverhampton, Staffordshiure 30.1.46. To Belgian Training School, RAF Snailwell 1.4.46.

Sold to Belgian Govt [4.46] and to Belgian AFas ETA-28 in 5.47; reserialled T-28 in 6.47. Fitted with Gipsy Major #90038/A407425. Withdrawn from use early 1957. Transferred 14.5.57 by Administration des Domaines [Ministry of Finance] to Centre Nationale de Vol a Voile (CNVV), Bruxelles. Belgian civil registered as OO-EVI (C of R 1152) 14.8.57 to Centre Ecole National de Vol a Voile asbl (CNVV), St Hubert. Loaned to Aeroclub du Hainault asbl, Casteau.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed due to engine failure; struck trees and power lines at Baudour 1.5.58 (although the C of A expired 31.12.57!). One minor injury sustained. Baudour is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Saint-Ghislain, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium

Registration OO-EVI cancelled 17.11.59.

Probably sold to Denmark for spares & parts included in package purchased by Capt Aharon Sagi for rebuild in Israel [late 1990s]. A tail marked OO-EVI was stored in the Israeli AF Museum at Hatzerim in 2007. A composite Tiger was built up (in 2002) by Capt Aharon Sagi and presented in static condition to Israeli Air Force Museum, Hatzerim as "VQ-PAU"; mainly from ex-Danish components acquired 12.98 (G-AHRV/OY-DNR; SE-CGC/G-ANRA; OY-DVR/D-EBUN/G-ANVE & OY-AJC/G-AOGS & probably OO-EVI). On display [see link #4]; the "real" VQ-PAU was the former MSN DHC 1653 and RCAF 8851, which was shot down 12.5.48 near Ramat-Rache, Palestine

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft EA100-EZ999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain)
2. Belgian Civil Aircraft since 1920 / J.Appleton and A. Thys, 1980 (ISBN 0 904597 25 3)
3. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
4. Tiger Moth "VQ-PAU" (including parts of OO=EVI) 19.11.2004: https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1477986
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p859.html
6. https://paperzz.com/doc/6842876/accident-reports-available-on-request-to-info
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudour

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
06-Apr-2008 07:00	ASN archive	Added
18-Nov-2021 22:24	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Category]
26-Jun-2022 02:23	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]