ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 22590
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| Date: | Friday 14 September 2007 |
| Time: | 17:10 UTC |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth |
| Owner/operator: | Aviation Ventures Ltd. |
| Registration: | G-ANDE |
| MSN: | 85957 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Engine model: | De Havilland Gipsy Major 1C |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Homefield Farm Airstrip, Crowhurst, 5nm E of Redhill, Surrey -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
| Departure airport: | Andrewsfield, Essex (EGSL) |
| Redhill Aerodrome, Redhill, Surrey (EGKR) | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 85957; Taken on charge by the RAF as EM726 at GPEU (Glider Pilots Exercise Unit), RAF Netheravon, Wiltshire 24.2.43. Crashed 18.11.43 (presumed at Netheravon); to Lundy & Atlantic Coast for repairs 24.11.43. Upon completion of repairs, to 21 EFTS, RAF Booker, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire 31.12.43. Crashed 17.2.44 (presumed at RAF Booker); to Lundy & Atlantic Coast for repairs 3.3.44;#. To 20 MU RAF Aston Down, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire 25.3.44. To 7 EFTS, RAF Desford. Leicestershire 29.11.44. To 7 RFS RAF Desford. Leicestershire 26.6.47 coded “RCP-C”. To 9 MU RAF Cosford, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire 14.11.51 for long-term stroage pending disposal.
Struck off charge when sold 28.9.53 to Association of British Aero Clubs. UK civil registered as G-ANDE (C of R R4121/1) 23.9.53 to Airways Aero Associations Ltd, Denham, Buckinghamshire (later - notified with effect from 6.7.56 - Croydon Airport, Croydon, Surrey). C of A issued 2.11.53 following overhaul by Nightscale Aircraft Services, Denham, Buckinghamshire. Registration cancelled 5.3.57 and re-registered (C of R R4121/2) 12.3.57 to John Crewdson, Horley, Surrey; operated by Overseas Aviation, Gatwick Airport, Horely, Surrey. Regsitration cancelled 20.3.57 and re-registered (C of R R4121/3) 21.3.57 to Overseas Aviation Ltd, Jersey (aircraft based at Gatwick Airport, Horely, Surrey); operated by NV Skylight at Hilversum in Holland - notified as such 4.8.60. Returned to Shoreham Airport, Shoreham, Sussex on expiry of C of A 11.5.60; aircraft later (late 1960 or early 1961) dismantled and stored.
Registration cancelled 7.3.62 and re-registered (C of R R4121/4) 18.6.62 to R F Saywell Ltd, Gatwick Airport. Horely, Surrey. To Gatwick by road for overhaul 1.4.63 and C of A renewed 15.5.64. Registration cancelled 4.9.64 and re-registered (C of R R4121/5) 28.9.64 to Hillman & Pagence Ltd, Horley, Surrey (aircraft based at Slinfold, Horsham, West Sussex). Sold 26.11.64 [but not notified until 20.6.66]; aircraft reported to be at Rearsby in January 1965], then at Leicester East in February 1966]. Re-registered (C of R R4212/6) on 23.6.66 to Frederick Roy Eaton (Ron) Hayter, Southampton, Hampshire (aircraft based at Christchurch, Dorset).
Regsitration cancelled 11.10.67 and re-registered (C of R R4212/7) on 16.10.67 to Robert William Gordon Woollaston, Gidea Park, Romford, Essex (aircraft based at Stapleford Tawney, Abridge, Essex). Regsitration cancelled 1.10.68 and re-registered (C of R R4121/8) on 7.10.68 to Ronald Sanders, trustees of the assets of the Stapleford Tiger Group, Stapleford Tawney, Abridge, Essex. Overturned and damaged in forced landing near Bulphan, Essex 4.7.73 after propeller detached; repaired and returned to service. Damaged in heavy landing at Old Warden, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire 13.9.75; repaired and returned to service. Damaged when overturned on take-off at Stapleford Tawney, Abridge, Essex 17.1.76; repaired and returned to service.
Badly damaged when struck by Bell 206B G-AVSN taking off at Biggin Hill 15.5.77 and undercarriage destroyed (see separate entry). Rebuilt [by May 1978] using fuselage of Tiger Moth G-ANZR [MSN 82997, ex-D-EGER, G-ANZR and ex-RAF R5115]; painted in quasi-RAF colours, coded ‘R’. Hit straw bales and overturned on landing at Stapleford Tawney, Abridge, Essex 19.9.78; repaired and returned to service. Fitted with Gipsy Major #80524 in 1979. Damaged following collision with ground marker on landing at Stapleford, Essex 5.7.81; repaired by 7.82 – now wearing code ‘105’.
Damaged when collided with Cessna F152 G-BHWS on take-off at Stapleford, Abridge, Essex 22.7.84.
Registration cancelled 11.9.84 and re-registered 14.1.85 (C of R G-ANDE/R9) to Ben Charles Cooper, trading as The Newbury Aeroplane Co, Denford Manor, Hungerford, Berkshire. Registration cancelled 15.4.86 and re-registered (C of R G-ANDE/R10) 15.4.86 (same day) to Andrew John Borsberry, Percy Benjamin Borsberry & Peter James Borsberry, Reading, Berkshire; rebuilt (active by August 1990). Registration cancelled 6.6.90 and re-registered (C of R G-ANDE/R11) on 6.6.90 to The Vintage Aeroplane Co Ltd, East Molesey, Surrey (aircraft based at Redhill, Surrey).
Damaged when ran away and overturned on start-up Shoreham 1.12.90. To Chilbolton for rebuild [1991]; repaired [by 1992] and returned to Redhill, Surrey. Registration cancelled 24.3.94 and re-registered (C of R G-ANDE/R12) 24.3.94 to Chauffair Ltd, [Nick Probett], East Molesey, Surrey (aircraft remained based at Redhill). Regsitration cancelled 12.3.96 as "Addresse: Gone Away" and re-registered (C of R G-ANDE/R13) on 12.3.96 (same day) to Montrose Aviation Ltd, [Dennis Gliddon & Angus Graham], Duxford, Cambridgeshire; later returned to Redhill, Surrey [by 1998]; relocated to White Waltham with Avia Special [4.99]. Re-registered (C of R G-ANDE/R14) on 10.4.2002 to Anthony Julian West, Pavenham, Bedford. Overhauled by Fordaire Aviation, Sywell, Northamptonshire and reflown 2.10.2003; CofA renewed 3.10.2003; aircraft at based Sywell, Northamptonshire. Registration cancelled 19.10.2004 and re-registered G-YVFS 19.10.2004 (same day) to Yorkshire Vintage Flying Ltd, Sheffield City Airport, Tinsley, Park, Sheffield, South Yorkshire (later relocated to Sherburn-in-Elmet, North Yorkshire).
Registration G-ANDE restored 21.6.06 (C of R G-ANDE/R15) to Aviation Ventures Ltd (Delta Aviation), Sywell, Northamptonshire [aircraft based at Kidlington, Oxfordshire, where delivered 18.8.2006]. Forced landed with engine failure Homefield Farm, near Crowhurst, East Sussex 14.9.2007 en route from Andrewsfield to Redhill and damaged when struck hay bales. According to a contemporary local newspaper report ("Halstead Gazette" 20 September 2007):
"Tiger Moth nose dives - co-pilot hurt
By Anna Brett
A co-pilot of a 1930s bi-plane has a suspected broken leg after crashing into hay bales in an emergency landing. The de Havilland Tiger Moth had left Andrewsfield Airfield, near Stebbing, and was badly damaged in the crash.
The vintage craft was bound for Redhill Aerodrome in Surrey but ran into difficulties, touching down at around 6pm in a field near Crowhurst, close to Lingfield in Surrey on Friday September 14. A spokesman for Surrey Police said: "It was forced to land and hit some hay bales in the field, causing major damage to its body. The pilot was uninjured, however a passenger (a male co-pilot) was taken to East Surrey Hospital with a suspected broken leg."
The Civil Aviation Authority were informed. Matthew Byatt, director of Delta Aviation, owns the plane. He said the co-pilot broke his leg on leaving the plane, but the wood and canvas aircraft "will be flying again".
According to the AAIB report into the incident:
"While in the cruise, at approximately 1,000 ft agl, G-ANDE's engine failed. At the time the passenger, in the front seat, was flying. The commander took control and flew a forced landing into a grass farm strip that had hay bales scattered across it with the exception of the two marked out runways.
Due to insufficient height the commander landed across the grass runways. Just before the aircraft landed the passenger unstrapped, stood up and jumped out of the right side of the aircraft. After landing the commander ground looped the aircraft in a bid to stop the aircraft before the field boundary and a large tree. The aircraft then hit a bale and came to a halt.
The commander made the aircraft's ignition switches safe before vacating it and going to offer assistance to the passenger who had a broken leg. The aircraft suffered severe damage to its wings, fuselage and undercarriage. Despite a detailed examination nothing was found that might have caused the failure".
Re-registered (C of R G-ANDE/R16) on 12.11.2008 to Duncan Alexander Nisbet, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire (under repair at Sywell, Northamptonshire in May 2015). Re-registered (C of R G-ANDE/R17) on 20.5.14 to Keith Michael Perkins, Maidstone, Kent (probably stored at Pent Farm, Postling, Kent pending rebuild). Re-registered (C of R G-ANDE/R18) on 28.5.21 to Aero Legends Leasing Ltd (Keith Perkins), Maidstone, Kent. Currently registered, although believed still under repair at Pent Farm, Postling, Kent; to be painted in 1943-period markingsd as EM726/‘FY’.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. AAIB: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5422fc3ae5274a1314000841/DH82A_Tiger_Moth__G-ANDE_05-08.pdf
2. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ANDE-1.pdf
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ANDE-2.pdf
4. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ANDE-3.pdf
5. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
6. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p859.html
7. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6996070.stm
8. Halstead Gazette" 20 September 2007: https://www.halsteadgazette.co.uk/news/1701703.tiger-moth-nose-dives-co-pilot-hurt/
9. https://mapcarta.com/N7332260586
History of this aircraft
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| 15 May 1977 | G-ANDE | Trustees of the Stapleford Tiger Group | 0 | Biggin Hill Airport, Biggin Hill, Westerham, Bromley, Kent | |
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Media:
DH.82a Tiger Moth G-ANDE at Manchester-Barton (EGCB), on 27.6.2004:
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 26-Aug-2008 13:46 | JINX | Added |
| 08-Dec-2014 02:21 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 13-Sep-2016 21:14 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Destination airport, Source] |
| 08-Jan-2022 20:35 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Embed code] |
| 07-Feb-2022 17:09 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Source, Embed code, Narrative, Category] |
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