Date:	Friday 16 May 1980
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	Tiger Group, (Bo Vincent Petersen)
Registration:	OY-DVP
MSN:	85506
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Substantial
Location:	Hadsund Airport, Buddun, Mariagerfjord, Helberskov, Hadsund -   Denmark
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Hadsund Airport, Helberskov, Hadsund (EKHS)
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 85506; Taken on charge by the RAF as DE526 at 24 MU RAF Ternhill, Shropshire 18.3.42. To 15 MU RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire 13.4.42. To 652 Squadron, Westley, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk 13.8.42. To 48 MU RAF Hawarden, Cheshire 25.10.42. To 316 "City of Warsaw" Polish Fighter Squadron (Polish: 316 Dywizjon Myśliwski "Warszawski"), Hutton Cranswick. Driffield, East Yorkshire 3.1.43. To 306 "Toruń" Polish Fighter Squadron (Polish: 306 Dywizjon Myśliwski "Toruński"), RAF Northolt 16.1.43; to RAF Hutton Cranswick, Driffield, East Yorkshire March 1943 [possibly returned to 316 Squadron]. Crashed 31.5.43 (presumed at RAF Hutton Cranswick); to Lundy & Atlantic Coast for repairs 23.6.43. Upon completion of repairs, to 20 MU RAF Aston Down, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire 6.8.43.

To 9 RFS RAF Doncaster, South Yorkshire 13.11.47. To 8 MU RAF Little Rissington, Gloucestershire 14.1.48. To 16 RFS RAF Burnaston, Derbyshire 8.7.48; operated by Nottingham UAS (University Air Sqaudron) coded “RUN-C”. To 5 RFS RAF Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire 27.6.51 coded “R-21”. To 63 Group Communications Flight, RAF Hawarden, Cheshire 25.2.53. To 9 MU RAF Cosford, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire 22.12.53 for long-term storage pending disposal.

Struck of charge as Cat.5(c) when sold as parts to Robert Stuart Rickard/Aero Exploration 6.7.54 and overhauled by Wiltshire School of Flying, Thruxton, Andover, Hampshire in July 1955. Registered in West Germany D-EDIS (allotted 16.5.55 to Emil Kemmer, Bonn-Hangelar; ferry permit issued 15.6.55) 29.3.56 to Godesberger Sportfliegerclub, Bonn-Hangelar. Badly damaged when struck Piper Cub D-ELAB on landing Bonn-Hangelar 15.12.57; repaired and returned to service. Registered in December 1960 to H Hollstein & partners, Koln-Butzweilerhof. C of A lapsed 17.5.63; registration cancelled 5.11.65 as WFU ("Withdrawn From Use"). New permit to fly issued 30.11.66 and re-registered (C of R 709) 9.2.67 to Aero Club Gelnhausen eV, Gelnhausen. Sold 9.4.72 to Lee Hoffecker, Grossauheim. C of A lapsed 26.4.72; registration cancelled 27.7.72.

US registered as N38013 (application 16.10.72) 29.12.72 to Lee C Hoffecker, Bear, Delaware; aircraft based at Mainz-Finthen USAF Base, West Germany and named “Alex”. Note that the FAA record card states that this Tiger Moth was "manufactured in 1972"! [sic]. Sold 2.5.73 to Denmark. Registration N38013 cancelled 15.5.73 as "Exported to Denmark".

Re-registered in Denmark as OY-DVP 4.6.75 to Carsten R Kristensen & Partners, Stauning. Re-registered 3.7.78 to Tiger Group, (Bo Vincent Petersen), Stauning. Fitted with Gipsy Major #85142 in 1979]. Badly damaged when crashed into trees on take-off Hadsund Airport, Buddun, Mariagerfjord, Helberskov, Hadsund, Denmark 16.5.80

Stored by Dansk Veteranflysamlung, Stauning by 1982; rebuild pending 1983. Re-registered 10.8.83 to Arvid L Sorensen & Partners, Ringkobing. Registration OY-DVP cancelled 1.3.85. On rebuild Stauning in November 1987 (still stored June 1988).

NOTE: Some published sources state that Tiger Moth G-AHUT was rebuilt, after it was written off (damaged beyond repair) when it struck HT wires and crashed at Newark Road, Pyrford, near Woking, Surrey 9.1.55. Registration G-AHUT cancelled 22.2.55 as 'destroyed'. Rebuilt and registered 16.5.55 as D-EDIS (later N38013 and then OY-DVP). This is not the case - D-EDIS was MSN 85506, which was orginally delivered to the RAF as DE526 on 18.3.42, then subsequent history as per the above. The confusion between the two airframes stems from the Air Ministry aircraft record card mis-recording G-AHUT's MSN incorrectly as '8/5506' [sic] instead of 85606.

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft DA100-DE999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain. 1987 p.14)
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._652_Squadron_RAF#Squadron_bases
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AHUT.pdf
3. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p855.html
5. https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=38013
6. http://www.oy-reg.dk/register/2320.html
7. http://www.oy-reg.dk/billeder/l4322.jpg
8. https://ukga.com/airfield/strathallan/20261
9. https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/search/?q=OY-DVP&f=reg&search_type=simple
10. Tiger Moth OY-DVP at Groningen-Eelde, Netherlands (EHGG) in July 1975: https://www.airhistory.net/photo/285763/OY-DVP
11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadsund_Airport ..

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
27-Sep-2008 01:00	ASN archive	Added
03-Feb-2012 21:58	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Source, Damage, Narrative]
10-Jan-2022 17:53	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Category]
10-Jan-2022 17:56	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative]
10-Jan-2022 17:59	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
10-Jan-2022 18:03	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]