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Date: | Sunday 15 June 1958 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH.82a Tiger Moth |
Owner/operator: | Centre National de Vol a Voile (CNVV) |
Registration: | OO-EVN |
MSN: | 86348 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Temploux, Namur -
Belgium
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | Saint-Hubert Air Base, province of Luxembourg,Wallonia, Belgium (EBSU) |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:de Havilland DH.82a Tiger Moth MSN 86348; Taken on charge by the RAF as NL905 at 20 MU RAF Aston Down, Minchinhampton, Gloucester 13.11.43. Apparently stored unused for over 18 months. UK Civil registered as G-AGRB (C of R 9656) 30.6.45 to The Minister for Civil Aviation, London WC2. To BOAC, Croydon Airpport, Croydon, Surrey 2.7.45 [for Ministry of Civil Aviation] and operated by their Operations Fleet at Croydon; to Gatwick 1.46; unit renamed Civil Aviation Flying Unit 1948; to Stansted late 1949. C of A 7190 issued 25.8.45. New C of R R218 issued 29.1.50. Registration cancelled/lapsed 27.8.52 and re-registered 12.9.52 to W S Shackleton Ltd, Piccadilly, London W1. Registration G-AGRB cancelled 15.4.53 as 'sold in Belgium'.
Reg-registerd in Belgium as OO-EVN (C of R 922) 20.5.53 to Centre Ecole National de Vol a Voile (CNVV), Saint-Hubert Air Base, province of Luxembourg,Wallonia, Belgium
Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed at Temploux-Namur 15.6.58. Temploux is a village of Wallonia and a district of the city of Namur, located in the province of Namur, Belgium. It lies in the Condroz 7 kilometres west of the city centre
Registration OO-EVN cancelled 17.11.59.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft NA100NZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
2. Safety Was No Accident: History of the Uk Civil Aviation Flying Unit (CAFU0 1944-1996 by James Fuller
3.
https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AGRB.pdf 4. Belgian Civil Aircraft since 1920 / J.Appleton and A. Thys, 1980 (ISBN 0 904597 25 3)
5.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Aviation_Authority_(United_Kingdom)#CAA_Flying_Unit
6.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p863.html 7.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temploux 8.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Hubert_Air_Base Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
06-Apr-2008 07:00 |
ASN archive |
Added |
27-Nov-2021 14:33 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
06-Nov-2022 01:34 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
12-Nov-2022 23:02 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Operator] |