Date:	Tuesday 19 July 1949
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.82a Tiger Moth II
Owner/operator:	3 EFTS RAF
Registration:	N9331
MSN:	82418
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Stoke-on-Tern, 2 miles South of RAF Ternhill, Shropshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Ternhill, Markey Drayton, Shropshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
de Havilland DH.82a Tiger Moth MSN 82418 (Gipsy Major #82009); Taken on charge by the RAF as N9331 at 5 MU RAF Kemble, Gloucestershire 16.10.39. To Farnborough Station Flight 7.7.40. To 39 MU RAF Colerne, Wiltshire 16.8.40. To RAF Duxford 10.11.40; returned to 39 MU RAF Colerne 10.2.41. To 19 EFTS RAF Sealand, Flintshire 18.3.41. To 24 EFTS RAF Sealand, Flintshire 7.2.42. To 3 EFTS RAF Shellingford 11.6.47.To 6 FTS RAF Ternhill, Market Drayton, Shopshire 24.3.48, coded "FBI-K".

Written off (damaged beyond repair) when spun in and crashed near Stoke-on-Tern, 2 miles South of Ternhill, Market Drayton, Shropshire 2.3.49. The pilot was engaged in circuits and landings. The aircraft spun during a badly executed turn; although the pilot recovered the aircraft's control from this, the Tiger Moth then went into a spin in the opposite direction. This was also corrected, but the aircraft then stalled and spun into the ground, colliding with a wire fence and a hedge.

Struck off charge as Cat.E2(FA) 24.3.49 and to scrap as Cat.E(s) 19.7.49. The reported crash location is near Stoke on Tern, a village located in Shropshire, England, on the River Tern at approximate coordiantes 52°50′49.2″N, 2°32′6″W

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946-1949 p 481 by Colin Cummings
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft N1000-N9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p824.html
5. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoke_on_Tern

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
24-Feb-2012 13:56	Dr. John Smith	Added
11-Jun-2014 06:10	rowan	Updated [Date, Location, Phase, Nature, Source, Narrative]
06-Dec-2018 17:59	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Operator]
25-Sep-2021 21:37	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Category]
25-Sep-2021 21:59	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]
26-Sep-2021 17:57	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Departure airport, Narrative]