Visited Duxford for the first time on July 24th and had the time of my life when I took to the air in Classic Wings operated Tiger Moth DF112 for a 30 min flying lesson 😀 .
Won the flight as a prize in the Blenheim Society’s 2013 Grand Flying draw!
The Classic Wings website only gives a brief overview of DF112’s history so I wondered if any of the more knowledgeable forumites would be able to provide her service history in full please.
TIA
Walter
By: Walter 63 - 6th October 2014 at 19:42
Thank you very much Sabrejet & Viscount, all I wanted to know!
It does sound odd for an aircraft to be taken on charge on 5.9.42 to be erected only on 22.4.44. Would that mean that the RAF received the Tiger Moths disassembled, and that they would send the “parts” to one of the manufacturers for erection when the need arose? I would assume that a MU would be quite capable of erecting a Tiger Moth – or am I missing out on something?
Cheers,
Walter
By: Sabrejet - 5th October 2014 at 16:40
Yes – taken on charge, but stored until erection.
By: Propstrike - 4th October 2014 at 23:45
‘, what is the translation of ‘ToC’ some year and a half before final airframe erection?
Is it ‘Taken on charge’ ie accepted ..?
By: viscount - 4th October 2014 at 23:39
While for subsequent civilian owners:
http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=60&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=reg&fullregmark=ANRM
and the two pages accessed as links from the base of that page.
Incidently, ‘Sabrejet’, what is the translation of ‘ToC’ some year and a half before final airframe erection?
By: Sabrejet - 4th October 2014 at 20:34
ToC 5.9.42
To Morris for erection 22.4.44
To 25 [P]EFTS 8.5.44
To 16 [P]SFTS Hucknall 13.11.45
To 22 EFTS 12.12.46
To 22 RFS Cambridge 26.6.47
To 11 RFS Perth 24.3.50 (Glasgow UAS)
To 9 MU 10.5.51
To 2 Grading School, Digby 3.9.51
To 33 MU 24.2.53
To 202 AFS, Valley 8.6.53
To 9 MU 29.10.53
Sold to Hants & Sussex Aviation Ltd 17.8.54 as G-ANRM
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