ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 17223
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| Date: | Friday 27 May 1960 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.82a Tiger Moth |
| Owner/operator: | Centre National de Vol a Voile (CNVV) |
| Registration: | OO-EVK |
| MSN: | 85900 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Namur-Suarlée Airfield, Temploux, Namur -
 Belgium
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Namur-Suarlée Airfield, Temploux, Namur, Wallonia, Belgium (EBNM) |
| Namur-Suarlée Airfield, Temploux, Namur, Wallonia, Belgium (EBNM) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
de Havilland DH.82a Tiger Moth MSN 85900; Taken on charge by the RAF as DF151, nominally at 15 MU RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire 19.11.42. However placed into long-term storage locally inthe Oxfordshrie area in ‘purgatory’; returned to Morris Motors at Cowley, Oxford for erection 5.4.44. To 38 MU RAF Llandow, Glamorgan 24.4.44. To Belgian Training School, RAF Snailwell 23.2.45. Delivered to Schaffen/Diest in 1946.
Struck off charge when sold 19.11.46 to Belgian Govermentt. To Belgian Air Force as ETA-9 in 5.47. Renumbered T-9 6.47. To EPE, Schaffen/Diest [by 6.48]. Damaged at Schaffen/Diest 16.6.48; repaired & fitted with Gipsy Major #83070/A16329. Returned to service with DEPE, Wevelgem. Crashed 25.6.53 (presumed at Weelgem); to Stampe & Renard for repairs 12.8.53. [Reported as MSN “R3042”]
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-EVK (C of R 1153) 14.8.57 to Centre Ecole National de Vol a Voile asbl (CNVV), St Hubert (later Namur-Suarlée Airfield, Temploux); (registered with identity "R3042").
Written off (damaged beyond repair) when collided with Auster 6 OO-OVL on approach and crashed Namur-Suarlée Airfield, Temploux 27.5.60. Pilot: Joseph "Pecquet" Léopold Guillaume (ex-Aéronautique Militaire Belge, ex-RAF) killed in Tiger Moth OO-OVL. Both crew on board Auster 6 OO-OVL were also killed.
Registration OO-EVL cancelled 16.6.60 as "destroyed". Namur-Suarlée Airfield (ICAO: EBNM) is a regional aerodrome in Belgium, located at Suarlée and Temploux, 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 miles) west-northwest of Namur, in Namur Province, Wallonia. It is about 65 km (40 miles) southeast of Brussels.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft NA100-NZ999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain)
2. Belgian Civil Aircraft since 1920/J.Appleton and A. Thys, 1980 (ISBN 0 904597 25)
3. www.mobilit.fgov.be/data/aero/accidents/AA_old.pdf
4. http://www.bamfbamrs.be/Dillien/OT-PILOT.DOC
5. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
6. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p859.html
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namur-Suarl%C3%A9e_Airfield
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 06-Apr-2008 07:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 22-Jan-2011 12:34 | ThW | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Source, Narrative] |
| 22-Mar-2012 13:14 | harro | Updated [Other fatalities, Source, Narrative] |
| 09-Dec-2021 20:28 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
| 06-Nov-2022 01:35 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 09-Nov-2022 00:45 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 12-Nov-2022 23:03 | Ron Averes | Updated [Operator] |
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