Date:	Saturday 9 September 1950
Time:	day
Type:	De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	23 RFS RAF
Registration:	DE556
MSN:	85524
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Low Middleton Farm, Usworth, nr Sunderland, Co.Durham, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Usworth, near Sunderland, County, Durham
Destination airport:	RAF Usworth, near Sunderland, County, Durham
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 85523: Taken on charge as DE556 at 46 MU RAF Lossiemouth, Moray 11.4.42. To RAF Stradishall, Suffolk 14.7.42. To 3 Group Comm Flight, RAF Newmarket, Suffolk 20.7.42. To 1688 (Bomber) Defence Training Flight, RAF Newmarket 7.9.44. To 6 MU RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire 15.1.45. To 8 MU RAF Little Rissington 18.1.46. To 23 RFS RAF Usworth, Sunderland, County Durham 25.1.49, coded "RSA-E".

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 9.9.50: Although the aircraft was undertaking an authorised low level flying sortie, the pilot allowed the aircraft's altitude to descend to such a low level that a wing tip struck the ground in a turn, and the aircraft then collided with a haystack and overturned at Low Middleton Farm, Usworth, near Sunderland, County Durham. Both crew survived - the RAF Pilot and the ATC (Air Training Cadets) Corporal Passenger survived uninjured.

Wreckage recovered to RAF Usworth, where Struck Off Charge as Cat.E(Scap) 19.10.50.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.106 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft DA100-DZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.82
4. http://www.rafcommands.com/archive/14590.php
5. http://www.rafcommands.com/archive/15651.php
6. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p855.html
7. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
8. https://www.nelsam.org.uk/NEAR/Losses/Losses-PostWWII.htm
9. https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/local/usworth-sunderland

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
30-Dec-2020 19:33	Dr. John Smith	Added
15-Feb-2021 10:13	Angel dick one five	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator]
15-Sep-2021 16:04	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative, Category]
15-Sep-2021 18:18	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]
29-Sep-2021 20:12	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative]
30-Sep-2021 11:18	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]