Date:	Saturday 19 May 1951
Time:
Type:	De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	85 Sqn RAF
Registration:	DF211
MSN:	85947
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Offham, 5 miles west of Maidstone, Kent, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF West Malling, Maidstone, Kent
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Tiger Moth MSN 85947; Taken on charge as DF211, notionally at 15 MU RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire 15.1.43. However, placed into long-trerm storage in ‘purgatory’ in the Oxford area; returned to Morris Motors at Cowley, Oxford for erection 3.8.45. To 38 MU RAF Llandow, Glamorgan 30.9.45. To 5 RFS RAF Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire 4.10.48, coded “RCY-M”. To RAF West Malling 11.12.50, used by the resident 85 Squadron as a 'hack'

Written off (destroyed) 19.5.1951 when crashed 3/4 of a mile south of Offham, Kent. The aircraft was flying at 800 feet, when it nose was seen to rise, and it climbed sharply before turning and diving into the ground. Of the two persons on board, one (the pilot) was killed, and one (an ATC (Air Training Cadets) passenger on an "air experience flight") was seriously injured.
Crew :
F/Lt (120.734) Howard John CORRE DFC (pilot) RAF- killed
Cadet A. Keep (passenger) ATC - survived but seriously injured.

The reported crash location of Offham is a village in the local government district of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, England, five miles to the west of Maidstone.

1. RAF West Malling: The RAF's First Night Fighter Airfield, WWII to the Cold War By Anthony J. Moor
2. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.113 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft DA100-DZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
4. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.138
5. 85 Squadron ORB (Operations Record Book)(Air Ministry For, AN/F.540) for the period 1/1/1951 to 31/1/1955: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 27/2704/28 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8427643
6. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p859.html
7. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offham,_Kent
9. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36640/supplement/3625/data.pdf

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
23-Jan-2021 20:49	Dr. John Smith	Added
23-Jan-2021 20:54	Koumas	Updated [Operator, Location, Narrative, Operator]
04-Oct-2021 20:57	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Narrative, Category]
05-Oct-2021 17:51	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]
23-Aug-2022 12:30	Nepa	Updated [Time, Location, Narrative, Operator]