Date:	Tuesday 5 February 1952
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	Scotish Flying Club Ltd
Registration:	G-AKCI
MSN:	DHA.229
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Perth/Scone Airfield, Perth, Tayside, Scotland -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	Perth/Scone Airfield, Perth, Tayside, Scotland (EGPT)
Destination airport:	Perth/Scone Airfield, Perth, Tayside, Scotland (EGPT)

Narrative:
DH.82A Tiger Moth G-AKCI, Scottish Flying Club Ltd., Perth: Written off (Damaged beyond economic repair) in a landing accident at Perth/Scone Airfield, Perth, Tayside, Scotland prior to 5.2.52. C of A lapsed 28.6.52. Registration G-AKCU cancelled 1.6.55 as dismantled. Remains reported dumped at Perth/Scone Airfield, Perth, Tayside, Scotland in January 1956. (Some sources - see link #6 - state "broken up at Perth in February 1956")

NOTE #1: The date of "5.2.52" is the date that the accident was reported, and not necessarily the actual date of the accident

NOTE #2: The accident occurred at Perth/Scone Airfield, Perth, Tayside, Scotland - and not Perth, Western Australia (although this Tiger Moth operated out of both locations!)

NOTE #3: There is another aspect regarding G-AKCH which really has me confused. It was previously registered in Australia as VH-BDJ. In fact it was one of a batch of three, (were there others?), G-AKCG (ex VH-AVD) and G-AKCI (ex VH-BDK). All initially registered to the Scottish Flying Club at RENFREW on the 25th July 1947. With the U.K. then being awash with ex-RAF Tiger Moths, why were these three imported from the other side of the world? Or, perhaps more likely, they were a cancelled export order?

1. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
2. http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a17a.htm
3. https://edcoatescollection.com/ac1/austb/VH-BDK.html
4. https://www.austairdata.com.au/component/rsdirectory/entry/view/11522:vh-bdk-1
5. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AKCI.pdf
6. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/pAus2.html
7. https://www.ukairfieldguide.net/airfields/Grangemouth
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth_Airport_(Scotland)

c/no. DHA.229: Taken on charge as A17-228 at 2 Aircraft Depot, RAAF Richmond, NSW 20.1.41. To 9 EFTS, RAAF Cunderdin, WA 3.2.41. To MMA Maylands, Perth, WA 2.12.42 for overhaul; returned to 9 EFTS RAAF Cunderdin, WA 22.2.43; withdrawn from service to storage 8.1.45. Transferred to 86 OBU RAAF Cunderdin, WA 11.6.45 for long-term storage pending disposal; put up for sale 6.12.45; to Care & Maintenance Unit 2.4.46.

Struck of charge when sold 2.12.46 for £30 to K Vine, Perth; issued to him 23.12.46. Registered as VH-BDK (C of R 1290) 6.6.47 to John T Brown, t/a Kingsford Smith Aviation Service, Mascot, Sydney, NSW. Registration cancelled 4.8.47 as \'sold to UK\'. Re-registered in the UK as G-AKCI (C of R 11797) 25.7.47 to Scottish Flying Club Ltd, Renfrew (later Perth/Scone Airfield, Perth, Tayside). C of A 9625 issued 30.8.48. New C of R R1303 issued 1950.

Written off (Damaged beyond economic repair) at Perth/Scone Airfield, Perth, Tayside, prior to 5.2.52. C of A lapsed 28.6.52. Registration G-AKCI cancelled 1.6.55 as \'dismantled\'. Remains dumped at Perth/Scone Airfield, Perth, Tayside, in January 1956.

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
19-Apr-2025 05:32	Dr. John Smith	Added