Date:	Saturday 28 November 1931
Time:	day
Type:	De Havilland DH.60M Moth
Owner/operator:	Gosport Training Base Flt RAF
Registration:	K1203
MSN:	1515
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Hill Head, Fareham, near Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
c/no 1515: DH.60M [Gipsy I engine #1102/A105861] Taken on charge as K1203 by the Base Training Squadron, RAF Gosport (Coastal Area) 26.4.30.

Written off (destroyed) when crashed into the garden of a private house at Hillhead, near Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire 28.11.31; aircraft failed to recover from aerobatic manoeuvres and went out of control. Possibly entered into a loop at too low an altitude for recover, and dived into the ground. Both crew on board killed...
Crew:
F/O John Burslem Mackenzie (RAF) killed
F/O Arthur George Teideman (RAF) killed In March 1931 he had been posted to No.465 (Fleet Torpedo Bomber) Flight at Gosport.

DH.60 Moth K1203 Struck off charge 11.1.32.

Hill Head is a residential area and village on the coast of the Solent. It is located south of Stubbington, west of Lee-on-the-Solent and south east of Titchfield, in the borough of Fareham, Hampshire.

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft K1000-K9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britian, 1976 page 6)
2. Portsmouth Evening News - Saturday 28 November 1931
3. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1934.htm
4. https://ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh60.pdf
5. https://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?17512-RAF-Fatalities-1931
6. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh60m-moth-lee-solent-2-killed
7. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p015.html
8. Pilots Promotion to Flying Officer October 1929: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33549/supplement/7074/data.pdf
9. https://www.geni.com/people/Arthur-Teideman/6000000001714976508
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_Head

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
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