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Date: | Sunday 19 October 1958 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH.82a Tiger Moth |
Owner/operator: | Ministere des Communications, Ecole de l’Aviation Civi |
Registration: | OO-SOL |
MSN: | 85466 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Grimbergen Airfield, Grimbergen, Flemish Brabant -
Belgium
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | Grimbergen Airfield, Grimbergen, Flemish Brabant, Belgium (EBGB) |
Destination airport: | Grimbergen Airfield, Grimbergen, Flemish Brabant, Belgium (EBGB) |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:de Havilland DH.82a Tiger Moth MSN 85466; Taken on charge as DE470 at 45 MU RAF Kinloss 9.3.42. To 16 EFTS RAF Burnaston, Derbyshire 27.6.42. To 16 RFS (Reserve Flying School) RAF Burnaston, Derbyshire 26.6.47 coded “RCS-B”, later “16”. To 20 MU RAF Aston Down, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire 5.9.51 for long-term storage pending disposal.
Struck off charge when sold 6.11.53 to A J Whittemore [Aeradio] Ltd, Croydon Airport, Croydon, Surrey. UK civil iegistered as G-ANMY (CofR R4427/1) 22.1.54 to AJ Whittemore (Aeradio) Ltd, Croydon. Sold 22.7.55 to Continental Aircraft Services Ltd and registration G-ANMY lapsed. Registration G-ANMY restored 31.5.57 to Rollason Aircraft & Engines Ltd, Croydon, Air port Croydon, Surrey. C of A A.4427 issued 8.8.57. Registration G-ANMY canceeled 31.7.57 as 'sold to Belgium. (Initially incorrectly painted as OO-SOC 1.8.57 - see photo in link #7 - registration corrected after delivery).
Delivered 14.8.57 and registered in Belgium as OO-SOL (C of R 1155) 16.8.57 to Ministere des Communications, Ecole de l’Aviation Civile (operated by SABENA), Grimbergen Airfield, Grimbergen, Flemish Brabant.
Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed at Grimbergen Airfield, Grimbergen, Flemish Brabant 19.10.58. Registration OO-SOL cancelled 12.2.59.
Stored Musee de l’Armee, Brussels [until 8.78]. Remains sold in 1984 to David Elliott, Kingslere, UK for rebuild. Registration G-ANMY 31.7.87 restored to David John Elliott, Newbury, Berkshire; on rebuild 1984-1989. Stored until 1994. Re-registered 2.12.94 to Richard Lewis Earl & Brian Morris, Brentford. Middlesex [rebuild completed by Aero Antiques, Durley, Gloucestershire; delivered to White Waltham, Maidenhead, Berkshire 30.5.95]. C of A renewed 1.6.95; painted in RAF c/s as DE-470 “16”; later based Oaksey Park. Based Rotary Farm, Bedforshire [from 4.2001] & put up for sale.
Re-registered 11.6.2002 to Frederick Peter Le Coyte, trustee of the Lotmead Flying Group, Lotmead Farm, Bishopstone, Swindon, Wiltshire; later Landmead Farm, Garford, Oxfordshire. Overturned on take-off at Landmead Farm, Garford, Oxfordshire 5.6.2008. To Ben Borsberry, Reading, Berkshire for repairs. Registration G-ANMY cancelled 9.7.2008 by CAA.
Re-registered 8.12.2008 to Dog Easy Ltd, Oxford (syndicate of David Alfred Lister, Graham Chisnall, Alistair John Wilson, Charles William Monsell, Timothy David Geoffrey Lancaster & Sir Digby John Mackworth), Landmead Farm, Garford, Oxfordshire. C of A replaced by Permit to Fly 4.6.15.
Collided with parked cars on take-off Lower Wasing Farm, Brimpton 5.6.2016. To Andy Baxter/Unique Fabrications, Nottingham 7.16 for rebuild. Re-registered 5.5.2017 to Andrew Robert Baxter & Mark Anthony Baxter, Nottingham. Currently registered pending repairs.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft DA100-DZ999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1987 p.14)
2. Belgian Civil Aircraft since 1920 / J.Appleton and A. Thys, 1980 (ISBN 0 904597 25 3)
3.
https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ANMY.pdf 4.
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf 5.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p854.html 6.
https://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Serial=40498 7. Tiger Moth OO-SOL (painred in error as OO-SOC) at Croydon 7.8.57:
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1023121 8.
http://www.mobilit.fgov.be/data/aero/accidents/AA_old.pdf 9.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimbergen_Airfield
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
5 June 2016 |
G-ANMY |
Dog Easy Ltd (owners) |
0 |
Brimpton (Wasing) Airfield, Aldermaston, Berkshire |
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
06-Apr-2008 07:00 |
ASN archive |
Added |
21-Mar-2012 14:26 |
harro |
Updated [Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Source] |
30-Nov-2021 23:49 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |