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| Date: | Saturday 29 April 1950 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth |
| Owner/operator: | African Flying Services |
| Registration: | ZS-BYY |
| MSN: | N/K |
| Engine model: | de Havilland Gipsy Major |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Groot Marico, Transvaal, North West Province -
 South Africa
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | |
de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN not known, but reportedly built by DH Australia as Mascot Sydney, NSW. (Therefore possibly ex-SAAF). Registered 1948 to African Flying Services
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 29.4.50 when crashed at Groot Marico, Transvaal, South Africa. Groot Marico is a hamlet in the North West Province of South Africa.
Sources:
1. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
2. https://www.dehavilland.co.za/DH82A_Tiger_Moth_construction_numbers_and_histories.htm
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groot_Marico
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 5 June 1947 | DG536 | Royal Indian Air Force (RIAF) | 0 | Jodhpur Airfield, Jodhpur, Rajasthan |  |
w/o |
| 1 June 1957 | VH-*** | Private | 0 | near Derrinallum, Corangamite Shire, Victoria. |  |
w/o |
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