Date:	Friday 31 August 1951
Time:	day
Type:	De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	18 RFS RAF
Registration:	NL781
MSN:	86248
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Fairoaks, Chobham, Woking, Surrey, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Fairoaks, Chobham, Woking, Surrey
Destination airport:	RAF Fairoaks, Chobham, Woking, Surrey
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 86252; Taken on charge as NL781 at 10 FIS (Flying Instructors School), RAF Woodley, Reading, Berkshire 1.9.43. To 8 EFTS RAF Woodley, Reading, Berkshire 7.5.46 coded “FDR-E”. To 8 RFS RAF Woodley, Reading, Berkshire 26.6.47.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 31.8.51 when flew into HT Overhead power lines while on final approach to RAF Fairoaks, Chobham, Woking, Surrey. No reported injuries to the crew.

Wreckage recovered to 49 MU RAF Faygate, Horsham, West Sussex, where Struck off charge as Cat.5(scrap) 20.9.51

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.117 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.173
3. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p862.html
4. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
08-Feb-2021 22:04	Dr. John Smith	Added
09-Feb-2021 08:34	E.Robot	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator]
06-Oct-2021 18:14	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category]
06-Oct-2021 22:38	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]