ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 66437
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| Date: | Thursday 24 May 1962 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth |
| Owner/operator: | Gwyndwr Rees |
| Registration: | G-AOUY |
| MSN: | 3796 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Nelson, 5 miles North of Caerphilly, Taff Bargoed Valley, Glamorgan -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Cardiff/Rhoose Airport (CWL/EGFF) |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 3796 (Gipsy Major #80741); Taken on charge as N6459 at ‘H’ MU RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire 6.12.38. To 30 E&RFTS RAF Burnaston, Derbyshire 30.12.38. To 22 EFTS RAF Teversham, Cambridge 15.10.39 coded ‘84’. To 9 MU RAF Cosford, Wolverhamptonm Staffordshire 14.10.46. To 17 RFS, RAF Hornchurch, Essex 11.2.49 coded "RCJ-M". To RAF Coltishall Station Flight, Coltishall, Norfolk 31.7.52. Returned to 9 MU RAF Cosford, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire 11.3.54 for storage pending disposal.
Struck off charge when sold 27.9.54 to W A Rollason Ltd, Croydon Airport, Croydon, Surrey. UK civil registered as G-AOUY (C of R R5699/1) 25.9.56 to Rollason Aircraft & Engines Ltd, Croydon. C of A issued 10.1.57. Registration cancelled/lapsed 17.1.57 and re-registered (C of R R5699/2) on 28.1.57 to Glamorgan Aviation Ltd, t/a Glamorgan Flying Club, Rhoose. Registration cancelled/lapsed 24.10.60 and re-registered (C of R R5699/3) on 7.11.60 to Gwyndwr Rees, Cardiff (aircraft based at Cardiff/Rhoose).
Written off (damaged beyond repair) due to Engine failure whencrashed during aerobatics Nelson, five miles North of Caerphilly, Taff Bargoed Valley, Glamorgan, 24.5.62. Nelson is a village and community in the County Borough of Caerphilly, Wales. It sits five miles north of Caerphilly and ten miles north of Cardiff, at the lower end of the Taff Bargoed Valley, and lies adjacent to Treharris, Trelewis and Quakers Yard.
Registration cancelled by UK Civil Aviation Authority as "permanently withdrawn from use" 4.7.62.
Remains to South Wales Historic Aircraft Preservation Society and (by 1974) to Midland Aircraft Preservation Society, Baginton, Coventry, Warwickshire.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft N1000-N9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
2. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AOUY-1.pdf
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AOUY-2.pdf
4. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p037.html
6. Tiger Moth G-AOUY at Baginton, Coventry (EGBE) in 1961: https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1080312/
7. https://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/340966-dh82a.html
8. http://www.ukserials.com/losses_civil.htm
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson,_Caerphilly
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Jul-2009 12:35 | VHKDK | Added |
| 29-Apr-2012 05:10 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 20-Mar-2014 23:15 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Date, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 18-Dec-2021 19:25 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative, Category] |
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