Date:	Wednesday 20 April 1949
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	21 EFTS RAF
Registration:	DF149
MSN:	85898
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Booker, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Booker, Buckinghamshire
Destination airport:	RAF Booker, Buckinghamshire

Narrative:
de Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth MSN 85898: Taken on charge as DF149, nominally at 15 MU RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire 30.10.42. However, placed into long-term storage locally in ‘purgatory’ in the Oxfordshire area; returned to Morris Motors at Cowley, Oxford for erection 29.2.44. To 20 MU RAF Aston Down, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire 18.3.44. To 21 EFTS RAF Booker 30.8.44; coded “68”.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 20-4-49 when hit windsock on landing RAF Booker, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire and overturned.

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.493
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft DA100-DZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 2009)
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p858.html
5. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Reserve_flying_schools
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Booker#History

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
30-Mar-2023 17:59	Dr. John Smith	Added