Date:	Saturday 6 September 1941
Time:	day
Type:	De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	7 EFTS RAF
Registration:	T7224
MSN:	83714
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Wistow Park, 7 miles South-East of Leicester, Leicestershire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Desford, Leicestershire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 83714; Taken on charge as T7224 at 10 MU RAF Hullavington, Chippenham, Wiltshire 12.8.40. To RAF Benson, Oxfordshire 28.10.40. To 17 EFTS RAF North Luffenham 30.3.41. Crashed 30.6.41 at North Luffenham; pilot, Leading Aircraftman R W Davison injured. To Taylorcraft at Rearsby, Leicestershire for repairs 1.7.41. Upon completion of repairs, to 7 EFTS RAF Desford, Leicestershire 26.8.41.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) when stalled following engine failure, and crashed on take-off after forced landing at Wistow Park, seven miles south east of Leicester 6.9.41. Both crew - Flying Officer H S Uberoi (Instructor) and Leading Aircraftsman W H Donalsdson (Piloy Under Training) - survived but were injured

Not repaired: deemed "damaged beyond economic repair" and Struck off charge 11.9.41 as FACE (Flying Accident Cat.E)

Wistow is a hamlet and deserted medieval village in the English county of Leicestershire, and lies seven miles south-east of the city of Leicester in the valley of the River Sence. Since 1936 it has included most of the former civil parish of Newton Harcourt which is a chapelry of Wistow

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft T1000-V9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
2. Accident 30.6.41: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/7269: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16756566
3. Accident 6.9.41: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/8667: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16924709
4. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p837.html
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wistow,_Leicestershire

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
19-Feb-2022 22:53	Dr. John Smith	Added
19-Feb-2022 22:53	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
20-Feb-2022 11:17	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]
20-Feb-2022 19:09	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]