ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 66082
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| Date: | Saturday 4 March 1961 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth |
| Owner/operator: | Christchurch Aero Club |
| Registration: | G-ANSR |
| MSN: | 83861 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Into sea, 300 yards offshore, Studland Bay, Dorset -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Christchurch Airfield, Somerford, Christchurch, Dorset |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 83861; Taken on charge by the RAF as T7335 at 45 MU RAF Kinloss, Morayshire 5.9.40. To 15 EFTS RAF Carlisle, Cumberland 23.6.41. To 19 EFTS RAF Sealand, Flintshire 30.6.41. To 24 EFTS RAF Sealand, Flintshire 7.2.42. To 9 MU RAF Cosford, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire 11.7.45. To 63 Group Comm Flight, RAF Hawarden, Flintshire 15.4.52. Returned to 9 MU RAF Cosford 9.10.52 for storage pending disposal.
Struc off charge when sold 25.9.53 to Association of British Aero Clubs. UK civil registered as G-ANSR (C of R R4633/1) 17.6.54 to Southern Flying Schools Ltd, Portsmouth. C of A issued 13.8.54. Registration cancelled/lapsed 7.11.60 and re-registered (C of R R4633/2) on 11.11.60 to Thomas Hutton Marshall; operated by Christchurch Airfield, Somerford, Christchurch, Dorset.
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 4.3.61 when struck water low flying and crashed into the sea 300 yards off Studland Bay, Dorset; wreck beached at Old Harry Rocks. [Old Harry Rocks are three chalk formations, including a stack and a stump, located at Handfast Point, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, southern England, at approximate coordinates 50°38′32.28″N, 1°55′24.96″W]. Registration G-ANSR cancelled 12.2.62 as 'destroyed'.
Studland is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England. The village is located about 2 miles north of the town of Swanage, over a steep chalk ridge, and 3 miles south of the South East Dorset conurbation at Sandbanks, from which it is separated by Poole Harbour at approximate cooordinates 50°38′32″N, 1°57′2″W.
Sources:
1. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ANSR-1.pdf
2. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ANSR-2.pdf
3. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p838.html
5. Tiger Moth G-ANSR at the "Breakfast Patrol Fly-In", Denham, Buckingshire [EGLD] 13.4.58: http://www.egld.com/1958.html
6. https://www.hampshireairfields.co.uk/xchresc.html
7. https://dorset.hampshireairfields.co.uk/dorcrash.html
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studland#Studland_Bay_and_beach_management
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_Airfield#After_World_War_II
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Harry_Rocks
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 01-Jul-2009 23:29 | VHKDK | Added |
| 31-Jan-2012 07:23 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Date, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 24-Sep-2021 21:02 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
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