Date:	Thursday 16 September 1943
Time:	day
Type:	De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	7 EFTS RAF
Registration:	T7036
MSN:	83344
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Ratcliffe Airfield, Ratcliffe on the Wreake, Leicestershire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Desford, Leicestershire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 83344; built by Morris Motors, Cowley, Oxford. Taken on charge as T7036 at 24 MU RAF Ternhill, Shtopshire 1.6.40. To 7 EFTS RAF Desford. Leicestershire 13.11.40.

Written off (destroyed) when abandoned in flight after controls jammed, and crashed at Ratcliffe Airfield, Ratcliffe on the Wreake, Charnwood, Leicestershire 16.9.43. Both crew bailed out and parachuted safely to the ground. Struck off charge 28.9.43 as FACE (Flying Accident Cat.E).

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft T1000-V9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1997 p.56)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AVIA 5/22/W1661: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6577874
3. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p833.html
5.https://www.abct.org.uk/airfields/airfield-finder/ratcliffe-leicester/
6. https://web.archive.org/web/20080514040150/http://www.airclark.plus.com/RatAerodrome/Rataero.htm
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratcliffe_on_the_Wreake

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
25-Mar-2022 19:44	Dr. John Smith	Added
26-Mar-2022 10:47	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]