Date:	Saturday 28 November 1931
Time:	day
Type:	De Havilland DH.60M Moth
Owner/operator:	Gosport Training Base Flight RAF
Registration:	K1203
MSN:	1515
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Hill Head, Fareham, near Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

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...

Flying Officer John Burslem Mackenzie (aged 22) killed 28.11.31
Flying Officer Arthur George Teideman (aged 21) killed 28.11.31; 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
12-May-2018 00:41	Dr. John Smith	Added
10-Nov-2018 22:02	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]
27-May-2021 20:08	Anon.	Updated [Operator, Operator]
13-Jan-2024 10:07	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Narrative, Category]