Date:	Friday 1 June 2007
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	Forderein fur Historisches Fluggerat Quax-Flieger
Registration:	D-ESPS
MSN:	83683
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Nachrodt-Wiebling, Bezirk Arnsberg, Märkischer Kreis -   Germany
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Hamm Airport, Hamm, Germnay
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities

Narrative:
de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 83683; Taken on charge by the RAF as T7213 at 24 MU RAF Ternhill, Shropshire 8.8.40. To 2 EFTS RAF Staverton, Gloucestershire 20.9.40. To 17 EFTS RAF Westwood, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire 30.11.41. To 15 EFTS RAF Carlisle, Cumberland 26.5.42 coded "46". To 7 EFTS RAF Desford. Leicestershire 22.3.46. To 7 RFS RAF Desford, Leciestershire 26.6.47 coded "RCP-D". To 10 MU RAF Hullavington, Chippenham, Wiltshire 7.12.51 for long-term storage pending disposal.

Struck off charge when sold 5.10.53 to Association of British Aero Clubs. UK civil registered G-ANGD (C of R R4226/1) on 24.11.53 to The Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgess of County Borough of Southend-on-Sea, Southend. Essex. C of A issued 12.3.54. Re-registered (C of R R4226/2) on 5.11.55 to Mrs Olive Joyce Marmol, Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Registration G-ANGD cancelled "Jan.1957 as sold to Germany - D-EKAL".

Re-registered in West Germany as D-EKAL 29.9.58 [registration allotted 27.8.56] to K H Wigge, Borkenberge. Re-registered 3.59 to Flugzeugeigner Gesellschaft Geilenkirchen [FGG], Borkenberge. Re-registered 3.61 to Mrs M Ennemann, Marl. Hit fence while taxying at Marl 1.7.61; registration cancelled 7.1.64 as "WFU ("Withdrawn From Use")

Sold 1.8.68 to K Strucksberg, Borkenberge. Repaired/rebuilt and re-registered 1.5.71 to M Schmitz, Lubeck/Ahrensburg. Substantially damaged when crashed on take-off from Lüchow-Rehbeck Airfield, Lüchow-Dannenberg, Lower Saxony 16.9.73; Crashed about two minutes after take-off. One of the two persons on board was killed

Registration D-EKAL cancelled 5.12.73. Stored for rebuild and registration D-EAKP reserved 1.9.77 for Hans Petersen, Aventoft; not taken up and reservation cancelled 13.9.79. Registration D-EHAL reserved [permit issued 11.7.83] by H Huss, Itzehoe. Permit lapsed 11.10.83 and registration cancelled 4.7.86 as Not Taken Up.

Sold to Switzerland 11.83 and registered as HB-UCX 30.9.86 to Erhard Hunziker, [jointly owned with Roman Sommerhalder & F Vogel], Beromunster. Rebuilt and reflown in 1986.

Swiss registration HB-UCX cancelled 25.4.2000. Sold 15.4.2000 and re-registered in Germany as D-ESPS 5.2000 [with c/n “T7218”] to Peter Sparding, Hamm (operated/kept by Forderein fur Historisches Fluggerat Quax-Flieger, Hamm, Germany (by 12.7.2003 - see link #9). Badly damaged in forced landing following engine failure Nachrodt-Wiebling, Bezirk Arnsberg, Märkischer Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany 1.6.2007. Engine failure in cruise and subsequent forced landing with broken wings and twisted fuselage. Registration D-ESPS cancelled 15.1.2008.

On rebuild [9.2007] by Dirk Bende, Germany and by Ulrich Thuer at Hamm, Germany (2009-10). Registration D-ETMP reserved 10.1.2011; on rebuild by Quax-Flieger [2011] at Paderborn-Lippstadt, Nordrhein-Westfalen (painted in RAF colours as T-7213). Displayed incomplete at Aero-Friedrichshafen 4.2019. Registration D-EQXM reserved 19.11.2020 for Quax-Flieger, Paderborn. (Aircraft's history is stencilled on the aircraft's rudder!)

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft T1000-V9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain)
2. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ANGD.pdf
3. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p836.html
5. Hamburger Abendblatt 17 September 1973
6. https://www-deutsche--digitale--bibliothek-de.translate.goog/item/T3O4MWBRBTLOWOVN3P5454XO5HTJCHZO?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc
7. Tiger Moth G-ANGD in 1955: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dwhitworth/5453044971
8. BFU Germany Report: BFU 3X0437/73 [Federal Archives, BArch B 425/391]
9. Tiger Moth D-ESPS at Hamm, Germany (EDLH) on 12.7.2003: https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/350487
10. https://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Serial=109489
11. https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?103192-Quaxmeet-amp-Airshow-Paderborn&p=1634957#post1634957
12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachrodt-Wiblingwerde
13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamm#Airfield_and_Airports

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

16 September 1973

D-EKAL

private

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Lüchow-Rehbeck Airfield (EDHC)

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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
23-Apr-2010 22:41	Petro	Added
12-Sep-2011 02:25	Uli Elch	Updated [Date, Location, Source, Damage, Narrative]
25-Apr-2012 18:49	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Source, Embed code, Narrative]
10-Apr-2015 10:05	Anon.	Updated [Narrative]
08-Oct-2021 21:05	TB	Updated [Operator, Source]
08-Jan-2022 19:57	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Embed code]
08-Jan-2022 20:13	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative, Category]
03-Feb-2022 20:18	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Embed code, Narrative]