Date:	Friday 15 July 1960
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	Crop Culture (Aerial) Ltd
Registration:	G-APLC
MSN:	3277
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Wyke Farm, Bradford Abbas, 5 miles SW of Sherborne, Dorset -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature:	Agricultural
Departure airport:	Compton Abbas, Dorset (EGHA)
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 3277; Taken on charge by the RAF as K4281 at 2 ASU RAF Cardington, Bedfordshire 5.4.35. To RAE Farnborough 14.7.36 for engine silencer tests. To A & AEE Martlesham Heath for use as a communications 'hack' 14.7.37. To 33 MU RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire 27.5.40. To 18 EFTS RAF Fairoaks, Chobham, Surrey 24.5.43. To 12 MU RAF Kirkbride, Cumberland 26.7.45 for long-term storage pending disposal.

Struck off charge when sold 27.10.50 to Air Navigation & Trading Co Ltd, Squires Gate, Blackpool, Lancashire. However, not immediately converted for civil use, and instead placed into long-term storage at Kirkham, Lancashire.

Sold 1.58 to Crop Culture [Aerial] Ltd, Bembridge. Converted for crop spraying and fitted with atomisers on lower wing. UK civil registered as G-APLC (C of R R6288/1) 24.2.58 to Crop Culture (Aerial) Ltd, Bembridge. Overhauled at Portsmouth and C of A issued 1.5.58. Crashed while spraying Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire 26.6.58; repaired and returned to service

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 15.7.60 when crashed at Wyke Farm, Bradford Abbas*, Sherborne, Dorset. After completing a spray run the aircraft collided with overhead HT power cables and the tail unit was damaged. The aircraft lost height and its speed was reduced by the wheels dragging through standing corn. In the course of a turn to avoid further power cables and a tree, the aircraft struck a telegraph pole, slewed to the left and came to rest on its nose after impact with an earth bank.

(*Bradford Abbas is a village and civil parish in north west Dorset, England, 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of Yeovil and 5 miles (8.0 km) southwest of Sherborne. The crash site is close to the source of the River Allen).

Registration G-APLC cancelled as "P/W/F/U" ("Permanently Withdrawn From Use") with effect from the same day. (15.7.60). Remains reported recovered to Portsmouth Airport, Portsmouth, Hampshire in 8.60 (presumably for spares/components recovery).

1. The K File - The Royal Air Force of the 1930s (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1996)
2. The British Civil Aircraft Registration G-APAA to G-APZZ (Bernard Martin, Air Britain, 1978 p.39)
3. Survey of accidents to aircraft in the United Kingdom 1960/CAA
4. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-APLC.pdf
5. http://www.hampshireairfields.co.uk/nos2.html
6. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p032.html
7. http://www.ukserials.com/losses_civil.htm
8. http://dorset.hampshireairfields.co.uk/dorcrash.html
9. Tiger Moth G-APLC in Flight (Crop Spraying at Shelton, Norfolk, UK) 1.7.59: https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1089678 and https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1089505
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Allen,_Dorset
11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_Abbas

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
22-May-2009 12:58	XLerate	Added
24-May-2014 22:28	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Date, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative]
28-May-2015 08:55	harro	Updated [Source, Narrative]
11-Dec-2021 19:12	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Category]