ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 63775
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| Date: | Wednesday 21 December 1955 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  De Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth |
| Owner/operator: | Wanganui Aero Club |
| Registration: | ZK-BLJ |
| MSN: | 85878 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Pipiriki, Whanganui -
 New Zealand
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Whanganui Airport, Whanganui, New Zealand (WAG/NZWU) |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
de Havilland DH82a Tiger Moth MSN 85878; Taken on charge as DF129, nominally at 15 MU RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire 2.10.42. However placed into long-term stroage in ‘purgatory’ at Manor Farm, Garsington; returned to Morris Motors at Cowley, Oxford for erection 17.4.44. To 39 MU RAF Colerne, Chippenham, Wiltshire 6.5.44. To 19 FTS RAF Cranwell, Sleaford, LIncolnshire 2.6.45; to RAF College, Cranwell, Sleaford, LIncolnshire 17.4.47, coded “FAL-B”(also quoted as ‘FAL-A’). To 3 EFTS RAF Shellingford 28.5.47, coded “FHI-A”. To 22 FTS RAF Syerston, Northamptonshire 6.2.48, coded “FCK-O”. To 203 Advanced Flying School, RAF Driffield, East Yorkshire 12.10.49, coded “FMK-W”. To 10 MU RAF Hullavington, Chippenham, Wiltshire 13.2.50 for long-term storage pending disposal.
Struck off charge when sold 5.11.53 to W.A. Rollason Ltd, Croydon Airport, Croydon, Surrey. UK civil registered as G-ANTN (C of R R4674/1) 30.7.54 to W.A. Rollason Ltd, Croydon. C of A issued 30.3.55. Registration G-ANTN cancelled 16.5.55 as 'sold to New Zealand'.
Re-registered in New Zealand as ZK-BLJ 11.8.55 to Whanganui Aero Club, Whanganui. Written off (damaged beyond repair) when struck cable and crashed near Pipiriki, Waimarino-Waiouru, Ruapehu District, Manawatū Whanganui, North Island, New Zealand 21.12.55. Pilot K. Gifkins. Registration ZK-BLJ cancelled 24.1.56
Pipiriki is a settlement in New Zealand, on the east bank of the Whanganui River, due west of the town of Raetihi and 79 kilometres upriver from Whanganui, at approximate coordinates 39°29′0″S, 175°3′0″E
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft DA100-DZ999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1987 p.18)
2. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ANTN.pdf
3. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p858.html
5. http://archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewEntity.do?code=7333
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipiriki
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 22-May-2009 12:58 | XLerate | Added |
| 19-Jul-2009 03:48 | angels one five | Updated |
| 07-Oct-2013 05:23 | angels one five | Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Location] |
| 22-Feb-2016 08:43 | angels one five | Updated [Registration] |
| 25-Oct-2021 16:18 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
| 25-Oct-2021 16:21 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Category] |
| 25-Oct-2021 16:23 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 23-Jan-2022 06:59 | Ron Averes | Updated [Aircraft type, Location] |
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