Date:	Sunday 24 April 1949
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	London UAS RAF
Registration:	T7449
MSN:	83853
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Drove Road, ½ mile W of Newlands Corner, nr Guildford, Surrey England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Fairoaks Airport, Chobham, Surrey (EGTF)
Destination airport:

Narrative:
de Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth MSN 83853: Taken on charge as T7449, nominally at 15 MU RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire 19.10.40. However, placed into long-term storage in ‘purgatory’ at the Riding School, Walton Street, Oxford; returned to Morris Motors at Cowley, Oxford [undated, but probably November 1941] for erection.

To 45 MU RAF Kinloss 25.11.41. To 1620 (AAC) Flight, Bodorgan 17.11.42. To 598 Squadron, Peterhead (or possibly 595 Squadron, Aberporth) 29.12.43. To 6 MU Brize Norton 12.5.45. To 3 EFTS Shellingford 15.1.46. To 22 EFTS Cambridge 12.2.46 [and loaned to Cambridge UAS]. To 22 RFS Cambridge 26.6.47. To 18 RFS Fairoaks, Chobham, Surrey 29.1.48; operated by London UAS, coded "FLO-A", later "RUL-A".

Written off (destroyed) when hit the top of a tree with the starboard wingtip while losing altitude in a right hand turn 24.4.49. Crashed and destroyed by fire at Drove Road, ½ mile West of Newlands Corner, near Guildford, Surrey; pilot Flying Officer George Brian Clark survived, but badly burnt

1. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p.494
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft T1000-V9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
4. London UAS ORB 1-1-1946 to 31-12-1950: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR/27/2555: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C2505193
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p838.html
6. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newlands_Corner

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
30-Mar-2023 00:58	Dr. John Smith	Added