Date:	Friday 19 January 1951
Time:	day
Type:	De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	10 RFS RAF
Registration:	EM923
MSN:	86117
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	220 yards North of Exminster Railway Station, Exeter, Devon, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Exeter, Devon (EXT/EGTE)
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 86117; Taken on charge by the RAF as EM923 at 20 MU RAF Aston Down, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire 21.5.43. To 11 EFTS RAF Perth/Scone, Perthshire 24.7.43. To 12 MU RAF Kirkbride, Cumberland 13.8.45. To 10 RFS RAF Exeter, Exeter, Devon 31.5.49; coded “RSB-F”

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 19.1.51 when crashed next to the railway line at Exminster, Exeter, Devon, approximately 220 yards north of Exminster Railway Station. The pilot Ronald Harry Albery Pinn AFC (Service Number 1587199) recorded the flight in his log book as "low flying".

Actually what happened was that the tail skid of the Tiger Moth snagged on telephone wires while low flying and the aircraft "pancaked" to the ground. Perhaps is was no mere coincidence that the pilot was posted to 1 ANS RAF to fly Vickers Wellingtons just a month later!

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.110 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft EA100-EZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.107
4. http://aircrewremembered.com/pinn-ronald-harry-albert.html
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p861.html
6. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exminster
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disused_railway_stations_on_the_Exeter_to_Plymouth_Line#Exminster

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
08-Jan-2021 16:06	Dr. John Smith	Added
08-Jan-2021 16:50	Pink	Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Operator]
30-Sep-2021 23:28	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Narrative, Category]
30-Sep-2021 23:29	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Location]
01-Oct-2021 08:18	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]