Date:	Tuesday 28 August 2007
Time:	12:10
Type:	de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	The Tiger Club (1990) Ltd.
Registration:	G-ANJA
MSN:	82459
Year of manufacture:	1939
Engine model:	De Hav1lland Gipsy Major I
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Substantial
Category:	Accident
Location:	Lashendon (Headcorn) Airfield, Shenley Farm Cottages, Headcorn, Kent -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Taxi
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Lashenden (Headcorn) Airfield, Kent (EGKH)
Destination airport:
Investigating agency:	AAIB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 82459 (Gipsy Major #82191); Taken on charge as N9389 at 20 MU RAF Aston Down, Minchimhampton, Gloucestershire 20.11.39. To 22 EFTS RAF Teversham, Cambridge 22.1.41 coded "43". To 9 MU RAF Cosford 4.10.46 for long-term storage. To 9 RFS RAF Doncaster, South Yorkshire 20.4.49 coded “RCZ-S”. To 9 MU RAF Cosford 19.9.51 again for further storage. To 2 Grading Unit, RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire 3.9.52. Ferried [back] to 9 MU RAF Cosford, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire 9.3.53 for storage pending disposal.

Struck off charge when sold 30.9.53 to Association of British Aero Clubs. UK civil registered as G-ANJA (C of R R4275/1) 7.12.53 to Skegness Air Taxi Services Ltd, Ingoldmells, Lincolnshire. C of A issued 17.9.55. C of A lapsed 12.7.61 and cancelled as WFU (Withdrawn From Use). Registration cancelled 14.10.63 and re-registered (C of R R4275/2) 18.10.63 to Roy Eric Webb, Botley, Hampshire (aircraft based at Portsmouth). C of A renewed 8.11.63. Registration cancelled 2.12.63 and re-registered (C of R R4275/3) on 5.12.63 to Donald Jackson, trustee of the assets of the Cambridge Private Flying Group, Cambridge.

Regsitration cancelled 13.12.63 and re-registerd (C of R R4275/4) on 23.12.63 to Donald Jackson & William Frederick Arthur [Bill] Ison, trustees of the assets of the Cambridge Private Flying Group, Cambridge (change of Trustees responsible). Registration cancelled 15.8.68 and re-registered (C of R 4275/5) 5.9.68 to Henry Gordon Craik & William Thomas Wix, trustees of the assets of the Waveney Flying Group, Lowestoft, Suffolk (aircraft based at Seething, Norfolk).

Registration cancelled 18.9.70 and re-registered 21.10.70 to John Julian Young, Horsham, West Sussex (later Ludham, Norfolk and then Beccles, Suffolk); painted in RAF colours as N9389 (later based at Shipdham, Norfolk, then Grove Farm, Raveningham, then Church Farm, Shipmeadow, Beccles). Fitted with Gipsy Major #83063 [in 1979]. Re-registered (C of R G-ANJA/R7) 30.7.96 to Paul Aukland, Beccles (aircraft based at Seething, Norfolk).

Re-registered 30.3.2006 to The Tiger Club (1990) Ltd, Headcorn, Ashford, Kent. Minor damage to wing and undercarriage when struck Robin DR.400 G-GGJK taxying at Headcorn 28.8.2007. According to the AAIB Report into the accident:

"Whilst taxiing out at Lashendon (Headcorn) Airfield, Shenley Farm Cottages, Headcorn, Ashford, Kent, on 26.08.2007 collided with a parked Robin DR400, G-GGJK. The commander reported that the handling pilot was taxiing slowly towards the runway and commenced a turn. At about this time the commander’s attention was distracted by an intermittent headset microphone problem.

Both the handling pilot and the commander considered that there was sufficient clearance to avoid a parked Robin, however the Tiger Moth struck the Robin, damaging both aircraft. Nobody was injured.

Nature of Damage sustained to: Tiger Moth G-ANJA - damage to lower left mainplane and gear, and to Robin G-GGJK - damage to left mainplane and flap".

Presumably repaired very quickly, as badly damaged less than one year later, in a forced landing five miles West of Lashendon (Headcorn) Airfield, Shenley Farm Cottages, Headcorn, Kent 23.5.2008 following engine failure. According to the summary of the incident in the AAIB Report (see link #2 for the full report):

"During an aerobatic manoeuvre the engine stopped. While conducted a forced landing the pilot changed his selection of field twice and was subsequently unable to make his third choice of field. The pilot deliberately stalled the aircraft onto the ground in a field approximately 100 metres short of his selected field. The landing gear collapsed and the aircraft was substantially damaged"

Registration cancelled 22.12.2008 by CAA. Re-registered 27.2.2009 to Andrew David Hodgkinson, Luton; later March, near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. On rebuild at Seething, Norfolk 9.2019. Currently registered.

1. AAIB Bulletin: 1/2008 G-ANJA and G-GGJK EW/G2007/08/20: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5422f7a6ed915d1371000679/DH82a_Tiger_Moth__G-ANJA_and_DR_400-140B_Robin__G-GGJK_1-08.pdf
2. AAIB Bulletin: 9/2008 G-ANJA EW/G2008/05/38 (Accident of 23.5.2008): https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5422f4fde5274a1314000515/DH82A_Tiger_Moth__G-ANJA_09-08.pdf
3. CAA: https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ANJA-1.pdf
4. CAA: https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ANJA-2.pdf
5. CAA: https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ANJA-3.pdf
6. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
7. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p824.html
8. https://www.key.aero/forum/historic-aviation/114793-tiger-moth-n9389-g-anja
9. https://www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/G-ANJA/908410
10. Tiger Moth G-ANJA various photos 1964-2008: https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/registration/G-ANJA?f=&sort=date_taken_formatted&order=asc
11. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Headcorn_Aerodrome

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
28-Aug-2008 13:18	JINX	Added
08-Dec-2014 02:05	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Location, Departure airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative]
12-Sep-2016 19:11	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
12-Sep-2016 19:12	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Location]
03-Feb-2022 21:01	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Source, Embed code, Narrative, Category]
03-Feb-2022 21:05	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]