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Date: | Monday 13 March 1950 |
Time: | day |
Type: | De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth |
Owner/operator: | Queens UAS RAF |
Registration: | T7911 |
MSN: | 84272 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Col, County Monaghan, Northern Ireland -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Sydenham, Befast, Northern Ireland |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:DH.82A Tiger Moth 84272; Taken on charge as T7911 nominally at 15 MU RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire 8.2.42. However, placed into long-term storage in ‘purgatory’ at Hill Farm, West Hendred; returned to Morris Motors, Cowley, Oxford for erection 14.6.41. To 16 OTU RAF Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire 23.6.41. Withdrawn for Maintenance repairs 7.10.43; to Lundy & Atlantic Coast 8.10.43 for repairs. To 38 MU RAF Llandow, Glamorgan 27.10.43. To 29 EFTS RAF Clyffe Pypard 29.7.44. To 8 MU RAF Little Rissington, Gloucestershire 26.11.47. To 11 RFS RAF Perth/Scone, Perthshire 25.1.49. Later to Queens UAS (Umiversity Air Squadron), RAF at Sydenham, Belfast
Written off (damaged beyond repair). Ran out of fuel while lost and overshot in forced landing at Col, County Monaghan, Northern Ireland 13.3.50.
To 23 MU RAF Aldergrove, Belfast, Northern Ireland pending sale 28.4.50. Struck off charge when sold 2.11.50 to Air Navigation & Trading Co Ltd, Squires Gate, Blackpool, Lancashire. Not civilianised; presumed broken up for spares
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.90 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft T1000-V9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1988 p.65)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.39
4.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p842.html 5.
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf 6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Monaghan Revision history:
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15-Dec-2020 14:54 |
Dr. John Smith |
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15-Dec-2020 17:43 |
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16-Dec-2020 21:16 |
Komes |
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17-Dec-2020 21:23 |
Dr. John Smith |
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Glog |
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Dr. John Smith |
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28-Sep-2021 10:33 |
Nepa |
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