Date:	Thursday 17 March 1949
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	Oxford UAS RAF
Registration:	T7899
MSN:	84260
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Kingston Bagpuize, 6 miles west of Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Initial climb
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Abingdon, Oxfordshire
Destination airport:	RAF Kidlington, Oxfordshire

Narrative:
de Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth MSN 84260: Taken on charge as T7899, nominally at 15 MU RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire 7.2.41. However, placed into long term storage in ‘purgatory’ at Hill Farm, West Hendred; returned to Morris for erection [undated, but probably June 1941]. To 10 OTU RAF Abingdon 24.6.41. To 22 EFTS RAF Teversham, Cambridge 7.3.46. To 3 EFTS RAF Shellingford 1.9.46. To 8 EFTS RAF Woodley, Reading, Berkshire 1.6.47. To 8 RFS RAF Woodley 12.6.47; operated by Oxford UAS; coded “RUO-A”.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) when stalled and crashed at Kingston Bagpuize, 6 miles West of Abingdon, Oxfordshire 17.3.49. The aircraft stalled during a steep turn at low altitude, and dived into the ground. Pilot survived with injuries

Not repaired: Struck off charge 29.3.49 as FACE (Flying Accident Cat. E) and broken up for spares and scrap at 71 MU RAF Abingdon.

Kingston Bagpuize is a village in the civil parish of Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor, about 6 miles (10 km) west of Abingdon. It was part of Berkshire, England, until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire

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2. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p.486
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft T1000-V9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
4. Oxford UAS ORB 1-1-1946 to 31-12-1950: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR/27/2561: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C2505199
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p842.html
6. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University_Air_Squadron
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Bagpuize

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
31-Mar-2023 18:50	Dr. John Smith	Added