ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 66432
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| Date: | Saturday 17 March 1962 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth |
| Owner/operator: | McAuley Flying Group |
| Registration: | G-ANFO |
| MSN: | 86357 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Little Snoring Airfield, Little Snoring, Fakenham, Norfolk -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Initial climb |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Little Snoring Airfield, Little Snoring, Fakenham, Norfolk |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 86357; Taken on charge by the RAF as NL914 at 38 MU RAF Llandow, Glamorgan, 17.11.43. To 15 MU RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire 14.9.44. To 15 GT Flight (?) 12.9.44. To 20 MU RAF Aston Down, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire 10.8.45. To 9 RFS RAF Doncaster, South Yorkshire 13.11.47. To 8 MU RAF Little Rissington, Gloucestershire 11.3.48. To 8 RFS RAF Woodley, Reading, Berskhire 19.7.48. To 18 RFS RAF Fairoaks, Chobham, Surrey 28.6.51. To 9 MU RAF Cosford, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire 9.7.52 for long-term storage pending disposal.
Struck of charge when sold 21.10.53 to Association of British Aero Clubs. UK civil registered as G-ANFO (C of R R4188/1) 22.10.53 to The Norfolk & Norwich Aero Club Ltd, Norwich. Partly overhauled at Pendeford Airfield, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire 1.54. To Panshanger Airfield, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire 8.57 for overhaul. Registration cancelled/lapsed 1.10.57 and re-registerd (C of R R4188/2) 8.10.57 to Elwin McAully & Barry Tempest, trustees of the Fakenham Flying Group, Little Snoring, Norfolk. C of A issued 25.10.57. Registration cancelled/lapsed 2.11.60 and re-registered (C of R R4188/3) 4.11.60 to Barry Tempest, Denis Stanley Kirkham & George Anthony Southerland, trustees of the McAully Flying Group, Little Snoring, Norfolk.
Written off (damaged beyond repair) when spun into the ground on climbing turn, shortly after take-off at Little Snoring Airfield, Little Snoring, Fakenham, Norfolk, 17.3.62; pilot Mike Watts badly injured. Registration G-ANFO cancelled 2.4.62 as 'destroyed'. Wreck recovered to Foulsham 1963 (for components recovery?) but returned to Little Snoring and fuselage burnt prior to April 1966.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft NA100-NZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
2. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ANFO-1.pdf
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ANFO-2.pdf
4. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p863.html
6. Tiger Moth G-ANFO at Sculthope, Norfolk (EGUP) in 1959: https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1228357/
7. http://www.mcaullyflyinggroup.org/
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Little_Snoring#Current_use
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Jul-2009 12:13 | VHKDK | Added |
| 25-May-2012 16:17 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 18-Dec-2021 17:01 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
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