Date:	Tuesday 6 December 1949
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	EVO Woensdrecht Koninklijke Luchtmacht (KLu)
Registration:	A-26
MSN:	85311
Engine model:	de Havilland Gipsy Major
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Rucphen, Noord-Brabant -   Netherlands
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Woensdrecht Air Base, Woendrect, Netherlands (WOE/EHWO)
Destination airport:	Woensdrecht Air Base, Woendrect, Netherlands (WOE/EHWO)

Narrative:
de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 85311; Taken on charge as DE265 at 5 MU RAF Kemble, Gloucestershire 10.1.42. To 10 EFTS RAF Stoke Orchard 8.5.42. To 7 EFTS RAF Desford, Leicestershire 5.7.42 [unconfirmed]. Crashed 5.1.44; to Lundy & Atlantic Coast for repairs 12.1.44. To 38 MU RAF Llandow, Glamorgan 14.2.44 upon completion of repairs. Crashed 19.10.44 and Struck Off Charge [possibly because missing from unit record card – presumed to be at 14 EFTS, RAF Elmdon, Birmingham]. Brought back on charge at 14 EFTS RAF Elmdon, Birmingham 14.2.45. To 9 MU RAF Cosford, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire 25.1.46.

Struck off RAF charge when transferred to Royal Netherlands Air Force (Koninklijke Luchtmacht (KLu)) 9.8.46; despatched 14.8.46 to Woensdrecht and taken on charge by Royal Netherland Air Force (Koninklijke Luchtmacht (KLu)) as A-26. To Fokker 3.9.48 for major inspection; returned to Woensdrecht 15.11.48. To CLO at Ypenburg 25.5.49; returned to Woensdrecht 28.7.49.

Crashed near Rucphen, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands 6.12.49; Got lost on a training flight, and after running out of fuel, the instructor pilot and the trainee left the aircraft by using their parachute. The now-pilotless aircraft crashed near Rucpen. The pilots were Schipper and Van de Burght.

Struck off charge 27.6.50 as "destroyed". The reported crash location of Rucphen is a municipality and a town in the southern Netherlands between Roosendaal and Etten-Leur, Noord-Brabant, at approximate coordinates 51°32′ 0″N, 4°35′0″E

1. Dutch Tiger Moths/Herman Dekker, 1986
2. Provinciale Drentsche en Asser courant 7.12.1949.
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft DA100-DZ999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1987 p.10)
4. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p853.html
6. https://kw.jonkerweb.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=701:dehavilland-dh-82-tiger-moth-uk&catid=85&lang=en&Itemid=547&showall=1&limitstart=
7. https://www.ipms.nl/artikelen/nedmil-luchtvaart/vliegtuigen-d/vliegtuigen-d-dehavil-dh82
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rucphen

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
23-Dec-2012 12:22	harro	Added
23-Apr-2019 18:12	Cobar	Updated [Total fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
08-Dec-2020 08:27	Cobar	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Narrative, ]
26-Sep-2021 19:12	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Category, ]
26-Sep-2021 19:17	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]