ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 196585
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| Date: | Saturday 7 May 2005 |
| Time: | 06:30 UTC |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.82a Tiger Moth |
| Owner/operator: | Stefano Rusconi |
| Registration: | I-JJOY |
| MSN: | 86550 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | La Celsetta airstrip, Camagnano -
 Italy
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | La Celsetta airstrip, Camagnano |
| La Celsetta airstrip, Camagnano | |
| Investigating agency: | ANSV |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 86550: Taken on charge as PG641, notionally at 15 MU RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire 7.4.44. However, placed into stroage in ‘purgatory’ in the Oxfordshire area; returned to Morris Motors, Cowley, Oxford for erection [undated, but probably June 1945]. To 38 MU RAF Llandow, Glamorgan 30.6.45. To RAF Aldergrove 18.5.49; operated by 202 Squadron. To 9 MU RAF Cosford, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire 6.12.54 for long-term storage pending disposal.
Struck off charge when sold 20.10.55 to Weston Ltd. Registered in Ireland as EI-AHM 20.8.55 to A Ross, Tara but ferried as 'EI-AHH' 27.10.55 (& marks may have been so reserved). Withdrawn from use and registratiomn EI-AHM cancelled 11.3.66. To Robert Levis and stored Dublin by 1978 (as a source of spares for Tiger Moth EI-AWP). Re-registered 5.10.82 to G Flood, Dublin. Rebuilt and reflown at Weston 26.10.83. Delivered to Carlisle 29.10.85 and registration EI-AHM cancelled 6.11.85 as sold to UK.
UK civil registered as G-APGM 9.1.86 to Harry Algar Nigel Orde-Powlett, Carlisle. CofA issued 28.4.86. (Registration G-APGM originally reserved by Peter G Masefield for for an unspecified DeHavilland DHC-1 Chipmunk which was never taken up; thus the regsitration G-APGM was unalloarcated from September 1957 until January 1986)
Damaged when overturned after landing at Walney Island, Cumbria 23.10.86; repaired at Redhill, returned to Bolton Hall (by 1987). Registration G-APGM cancelled 13.5.88 as 'sold to Italy'.
Registered in Italy as I-JJOY 27.7.88 to Stefano Rusconi, Rome-Urbe, painted in RAF c/s as PG641; operated by "Rusty Angels" aerobatic team, Santo Stefano, Anguilliara Sabazia.
Badly damaged when overran runway on landing La Celsetta airstrip, Camagnano 7.5.2005. On rebuild (2010) near Anguillara, Rome by Rusty Angels/Italian Flying Museum, La Celsetta. Owner killed in car crash in India; ownership passed to son, Marco Rusconi. Tiger Moth I-JJOY shipped to Canada in 2015 for rebuild. To Martin Airfield, Grand Valley, near Toronto [2020] for completion of rebuild by Danny Garyfalakis/Andy Scott (Gipsy Aero Works Inc).
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-PZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britian)
2. The British Civil Aircraft Register G-APAA to G-APZZ (Bernard Martin, Air Britain, 1978 p. 27)
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-APGM.pdf
4. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
5. http://www.ottocubano.com/WEB%20IFM/indice%20workshops%20I-JJOY.htm
6. https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1227426/
7. http://www.ansv.it/it/detail_Relazioni.asp?ID=447
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 09-Jul-2017 07:24 | harro | Added |
| 09-Jul-2017 07:25 | harro | Updated [Cn, Narrative] |
| 26-Jan-2022 16:45 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
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