Date:	Wednesday 12 May 1948
Time:	day
Type:	De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	5 RFS RAF
Registration:	DE920
MSN:	85791
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Curdworth, 4 miles North-east of Castle Bromwich, Staffordshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Castle Bromwich, Staffordshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 85791: Taken on charge by the RAF as DE920, nominally at 15 MU RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire 11.12.42. However, placed into long-term storage in ‘purgatory’ in the Oxfordshire area; returned to Morris Motors, Cowley, Oxford for erection 14.2.44. To 38 MU RAF Llandow, Glamorgan 26.2.44. To 25 [P]EFTS, RAF Hucknall, Nottinghamshire 29.11.44; coded ‘24’, later ‘4’. To 16 [P]SFTS RAF Hucknall 13.11.45; coded "FAT-E". To 1 EFTS RAF Panshanger, Hertfordshire 12.11.46. To 29 EFTS RAF Clyffe Pypard 25.3.47. To 5 RFS RAF Castle Bromwich, Staffordshire 27.11.47.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 12.5.48 when hit overhead HT cables during practice forced landing and crashed 4 miles North East of Castle Bromwich, Staffordshire 12.5.48. Although the crash location is recorded as such in the 5 RFS ORB, the actual crash location was near Curdworth, Sutton Coldfield, which is a village and civil parish in the North Warwickshire district of the county of Warwickshire in England at approximate coordiantes 52° 31′ 54.84″ N, 1° 44′ 7.08″ W

1. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft DA100-DZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
3. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p.388
4. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p857.html
6. http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=%20DE920
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curdworth

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
10-Sep-2021 15:22	Dr. John Smith	Added
11-Sep-2021 15:54	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]