ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 63578
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| Date: | Friday 20 September 1957 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  De Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth |
| Owner/operator: | Glen Murray Topdressing Syndicate |
| Registration: | ZK-BCH |
| MSN: | 85547 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Pukekawa, Waikato -
 New Zealand
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Agricultural |
| Departure airport: | Pukekawa, Waikato |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 85547; Taken on charge as DE580 at 5 MU RAF Kemble, Gloucestershire 3.4.42. To 29 EFTS RAF Clyffe Pypard 16.3.43. To 1 FTS RAF Spitalgate, Grantham, Lincolnshire (on loan) 27.11.47; returned to 29 EFTS Clyffe Pypard by/on 28.2.48 at end of loan period. To RAF Wyton, Bomber Command Station Flight 2.7.49. Struck off charge as scrap 19.10.49. However, brought back on charge at 9 MU RAF Cosford, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire 25.11.49 for storage pending disposal.
Struck off charge when sold 19.4.50 to [unidentified party – but possibly Hants & Sussex Aviation Ltd, Portsmouth Airport, Portsmouth, Hampshire]. UK civil registered as G-AMVO (C of R R3855/1) 10.10.52 to Hants & Sussex Aviation Ltd, Portsmouth, Hampshire. Registration cancelled/lapsed 18.11.52 and re-registered (C of R R3855/2) 28.11.52 to W S Shackleton Ltd, Piccadilly, London W1. C of A A3855 issued 4.12.52. Registration G-AMVO cancelled 7.1.53 as 'sold to New Zealand'.
Re-registered in New Zealand as ZK-BCH 25.2.53 to Aerial Farming of NZ Ltd, Palmerston North. Re-registered 25.5.53 to Aerial Fertilising Ltd. Re-registered 26.3.57 to Glen Murray Topdressing Syndicate, Pukekohe.
Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed on take-off at Pukekawa, Waikato 20.9.57: pilot A O Hayward. Registration ZK-BCH cancelled 26.9.58.
Pukekawa is a town in the Lower Waikato River area of New Zealand's North Island, 66 km south of central Auckland
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft DA100-DZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1987 p.15)
2. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AMVO.pdf
3. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
4. http://archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewEntity.do?code=7333
5. http://www.flydw.org.uk/DWZKBAH.htm
6. http://edcoatescollection.com/ac2/NZBA/ZK-BCH.html
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pukekawa
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 22-May-2009 12:58 | XLerate | Added |
| 14-Nov-2021 21:37 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative, Category] |
| 29-Jan-2022 03:31 | Ron Averes | Updated [Aircraft type] |
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