Date:	Thursday 22 May 1969
Time:	day
Type:	De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	Norman Herbert Jones (The Tiger Club)
Registration:	G-ANMZ
MSN:	85588
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Challock Airfield, Squids Gate, Challock, Ashford, Kent -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Initial climb
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Challock Airfield, Squids Gate, Challock, Ashford, Kent (EGKE)
Destination airport:	Challock Airfield, Squids Gate, Challock, Ashford, Kent (EGKE)
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 85588; Taken on charge by the RAF as DE634 at 15 MU, RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire 5.6.42. To 3 FIS (Flying Instructors School), RAF Hullavington, Chippenham, Wiltshire 3.8.42. To Empire Central Flying School, RAF Hullavington, Wiltshire 14.10.43. To 21 EFTS RAF Booker, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire 16.11.43. To 7 FTS RAF Cottesmore, Oakham, Ruland 10.3.50. To Station Flight RAF Thorney Island, Emsworth, Hampshire 29.6.50. To 4 Radio School, RAF Swanton Morley, Norfolk 22.2.51. To 1 Grading Unit, RAF Digby, Scopwick, LIncolnshire 26.4.52 coded “29”. To 20 MU RAF Aston Down, Minchinhampton, Wiltshire 24.2.53 for storage pending disposal.

Struck off charge when sold 6.11.53 to A J Whittemore [Aeradio] Ltd, Croydon. First civilian registered (C of R R4428/1) as G-ANMZ on 11.1.54. Between 11.1.54 and 11.5.81 the history of this Tiger Moth was as follows:

11.01.54: First civil registered (C of R R4428/1) as G-ANMZ to A.J.Whittemore (Aeradio) Ltd., Croydon Airport, Croydon, Surrey.
22.07.55: Registration cancelled/lapsed upon sale
04.07.60: Sold on and re-registered (C of R R4428/2) to Rollason Aircraft & Engines Ltd., Croydon, Surrey. The Tiger Club employed Rollason Aircraft to modify four Tiger Moths, and these were named as ‘Super Tigers’ and were capable of ‘continuous’ inverted flight due to a modified fuel system. They were given names associated with rankings of church clerics, which were painted on the nose cowling. Arguably the two most famous being "The Archbishop" (G-ANZZ) and "The Deacon" (G-AOAA). What is often forgotten is that the first ‘Super Tiger’ was G-APDZ "The Bishop" which crashed at LITTLE SNORING (NORFOLK) in 1960 killing the pilot ‘Mac’ McAully. The flying group based at LITTLE SNORING was renamed the McAully Flying Group in his memory and it is still going. The fourth ‘Super Tiger’ was "The Canon" G-ANMZ which was converted in 1960-61
06.09.61: Registration cancelled/lapsed upon sale
08.09.61: Sold on and re-registered (C of R R4428/3) to Norman Herbert Jones (The Tiger Club), Claygate, Surrey
13.07.63: Badly damaged when crashed while crazy flying at an air dispplay at Sywell, Northamptonshire (pilot Lewis Benjamin badly injured); repaired and returned to service
22.05.69: Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed at Challock Airfield, Squids Gate, Challock, Ashford, Kent. G-AMNZ is believed to have stalled, and dived into the ground shortly after take off while glider towing. There are photos of this Tiger Moth showing it crashed and "standing on its nose".
11.05.81: The wreckage of G-ANMZ was retained to be used as a source of spares (and, on at least one occasion - see link #13 - non-destructive fire fighting training). Hence the belated cancellation of the registration, 12 years later. Registration G-ANMZ cancelled by the CAA as "destroyed"

Remains stored [by 1993] by Christopher Jefferson, Paddock Wood. On rebuild [in 1997] in Norfolk. Sold [1998] to a group in North Kent.

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft DA100-DZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1987 p.18)
2. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ANMZ-1.pdf
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ANMZ-2.pdf
4. https://tugpilots.co.uk/aircraft/tug-fleet/towing-history-at-lgc/
5. http://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=16735.0
5. https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/registration/G-ANMZ
6. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
7. http://www.ukserials.com/losses_civil.htm
8. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p855.html
9. https://www.airteamimages.com/de-havilland-tiger-moth_G-ANMZ_-private_144115_large.html
10. G-ANMZ at Biggin Hill 9.5.64: https://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled/De-Havilland-DH-82-Tiger-Moth/2583775/L
11. http://www.ukairfieldguide.net/airfields/Redhill
12. http://www.fly13.co.uk/Tug/Fleet/Old%20Tug%20Fleet.htm
13. Netherlands national archive: undated photo of what seems to be a firefighting exercice with this aircraft: http://proxy.handle.net/10648/eb97c7b1-63db-0a93-a8f8-03f2f8d51b20

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
28-Mar-2020 20:16	Dr. John Smith	Added
28-Mar-2020 20:33	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport]
29-Dec-2021 10:38	Anon.	Updated [Source]
30-Dec-2021 21:22	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category]
30-Dec-2021 21:23	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]