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Date: | Saturday 31 July 1954 |
Time: | day |
Type: | De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth |
Owner/operator: | John Anton Longmoor t/a Vendair |
Registration: | G-ALOX |
MSN: | 82704 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Wimbledon Common, Wimbledon, London SW.19 -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | Biggin Hill Airport, Biggin Hill, Bromley, Kent (BQH/EGKB) |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 82704 (Gipsy Major #82588); Taken on charge as R4763 at 20 MU RAF Aston Down. Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire 15.1.40. To 4 EFTS RAF Brough, East Yorkshire 24.9.40, later coded "FHO-D". Converted to instructional airframe 6083M by 4 EFTS RAF Brough 16.8.46 for issue to BOAC Engineering Training School at White Waltham. Struck off charge at an unknown date circa 1948-49.
First civilian registered (C of R 12750/1) on 28.4.49 as G-ALOX to the Speedbird Flying Club, Piccadilly, London SW.1. C of A 10770 issued 23.12.49. Owners name and address changed ("name change by special notification under the Companies Act") without re-registration on 31.12.49 to Airways Air Association Ltd., Brentford, Middlesex. Registration cancelled/lapsed 7.4.53 upon sale.
Sold on and re-registered (with new C of R R1953/2) on 10.4.53 to John Anton Longmoor t/a Vendair, Thornton Heath, Surrey. Aircraft based at Croydon Airport, Croydon, Surrey.
Written off (damaged beyond economic repair) 31.7.54 when force landed and overturned on Wimbledon Common, Wimbledon, London SW.19. It seems likely that the aircraft was retained by its owner as a source of spare parts (possibly at Biggin Hill) as the registration G-ALOX was only belatedly cancelled on 5.2.59 (almost five years later) as "reduced to spares"
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft R1000-R9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1980)
2.
https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ALOX.pdf 3. G-ALOX inverted on Wimbledon Common 31/7/54:
https://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled/De-Havilland-DH-82A-Tiger-Moth-II/1090190/L 4. G-ALOX in flight 1950:
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1237971 5. G-ALOX post crash 31/7/54:
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1005322 6.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p827.html 7.
http://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=15918.0 8.
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf 9.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimbledon_Common Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
26-Mar-2020 23:18 |
Dr. John Smith |
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13-Oct-2021 17:29 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, Narrative, Category] |
13-Oct-2021 17:32 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source] |