ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 305651
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Date: | Saturday 28 July 1962 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth |
Owner/operator: | Aero Clube de Moçambique |
Registration: | CR-AGG |
MSN: | 86261 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Inhaca Airport, Inhaca Island -
Mozambique
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | Lourenço Marques Airport, Maputo, Mozambique (LUM/FQMA) |
Destination airport: | Inhaca Airport, Inhaca Island, Mozambique (IHC/FQIA) |
Narrative:de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 86261: Taken on charge as NL802 at 222 MU High Ercall, Shropshire 8.9.43 and shipped to Portugal 19.9.43 on the s.s "Empire Moonrise"; arrived 7.10.43. To Portuguese Navy as "T-17" and operated by Centro Aeronaval de Sao Jacinto, Aveiro. Sold off and civil registered CR-AGG (by 1961) to Aero Clube de Moçambique, Maputo, Mozambique.
Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed on landing (due to pilot error) 28.7.62 at Inhaca Airport, Inhaca Island, Mozambique
Inhaca Island is a subtropical island of Mozambique off the East African coast. The main village is Inhaca, situated just over a kilometer from Inhaca Airport. Inhaca Airport (IATA: IHC, ICAO: FQIA) is an airport near Inhaca, a town on Inhaca Island, in the Maputo Province in Mozambique. It is located across Maputo Bay from the country's capital city of Maputo.
Sources:
1. Voando em Moçambique
2.
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf 3.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p862.html 4.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inhaca_Airport Images:
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