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Date: | Sunday 12 November 1939 |
Time: | day |
Type: | De Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth |
Owner/operator: | 14 EFTS RAF |
Registration: | K4283 |
MSN: | 3279 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 1/2 mile west of Ansty, Coventry, Warwickshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Elmdon, Brimingham |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:De Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth MSN 3279: Taken on charge as K4283 at 2 ASU (Aircraft Servicing Unit) RAF Cardington, Bedfordshire 15.4.35. To Station HQ Flight, RAF Driffield, East Yorkshire 8.9.36. Returned to 2 ASU RAF Cardington, Bedfordshire 13.9.37. To 20 E&RFTS Gravesend, Kent 30.9.37; coded ‘3’. To 14 EFTS RAF Elmdon, Birmingham 15.10.39.
Written off (damaged beyond repair) when force landed and hit hedge half a mile West of Ansty, Coventry, Warwickshire 12.11.39 during a practice forced landing. Not repaired, Struck off charge 16.12.39 as FACE (Flying Accident Cat.E). Names of the two crew not yet traced, but there were no reports of any fatalities or serious injuries. What is known is that the Pupil Pilot Under Training was a Fleet Air Arm, Royal Navy, Rating.
The reported crash site is half-a-mile west of Ansty, a village and civil parish in the Rugby Borough of Warwickshire, England, about 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Coventry city centre and 8 miles (13 km) south of Hinckley, Leicestershire.
Sources:
1. The K File - The RAF of the 1930s (James J Halley, Air Britain 1995 p.348)
2. 14 EFTS Operational Record Book (Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period September 1939 to January 1946:
National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 29/618/6 at
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7160940 3.
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf 4.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p032.html 5.
http://www.aviationarchaeology.org.uk/marg/crashes1930s.htm 6.
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf 7.
http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=%20K4283 8.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansty,_Warwickshire Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
02-May-2019 00:29 |
Dr. John Smith |
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25-May-2019 12:16 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator] |
01-Aug-2021 23:29 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative, Category] |
01-Aug-2021 23:30 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
01-Aug-2021 23:31 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source] |
02-Aug-2021 08:49 |
THC |
Updated [Operator, Location, Operator] |
03-Apr-2022 16:54 |
Dr. John Smith |
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03-Apr-2022 20:33 |
Nepa |
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