Date:	Sunday 23 January 1949
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	14 RFS RAF
Registration:	T7465
MSN:	83894
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Parkhurst, 3 miles south of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Hamble, Hamble-le-Rice, Hampshire
Destination airport:	RAF Hamble, Hampshire

Narrative:
de Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth MSN 83894: Taken on charge as T7465, 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, Cowley, Oxford 1.11.41 for erection. To 5 MU RAF Kemble, Gloucestershire 6.11.41. To 6 EFTS RAF Sywell, Northamptonshire 30.1.42. To 6 RFS RAF Sywell, Northamptonshire 26.6.47. To 14 RFS RAF Hamble, Hampshire 21.8.47; coded “RCL-J”.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 23.1.49 when crashed while low flying near Parkhurst, 3 miles South of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.

Not repaired: Struck off charge as FACE (Flying Accident Cat.E2) and sold as scrap [via 49 MU RAF Faygate, Sussex] 9.2.49.

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.467
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft T1000-V9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
4. https://wight.hampshireairfields.co.uk/iowc.html
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/Parkhurst,_Isle_of_Wight

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
05-Apr-2023 21:36	Dr. John Smith	Added