Tigermoth crash

[Mr Bomb]

Apparently there was a Tigermoth go down near Hoxton Park in a paddock and overturned. Apparently the pilot and pax ok. Don't know the callsign but it is yellow.

Cheers
Mr B

[Thermal Bandit]

Channel 7 News just reported that both engines of the vintage Tiger Moth failed ! :ugh:

Must be a model that even De Havilland do not know about :rolleyes:- the footage I saw it looked like the one from Curtis Aviation Camden

[karl8434]

VH-SDR, From Camden, DH82, one engine.

[kookabat]

SDR is CN based but no longer online at Curtis AFAIK - CXV is the 'new' Curtis one.

[Old Fella]

Thanks TB for confirming what I thought I heard on our local Prime TV news. Funnily enough they also showed a still photograph of the aircraft, bent fin and rudder and ONE engine.

[Thermal Bandit]

Thanks for the update - when I flew her she was with Curtis and a joy to fly :)

[Trojan1981]

:eek: Everyone OK? I hope so. Beautiful old aircraft flown by a top bloke.

[Taildragger67]

Twin engine Tiger = Dragon Rapide?

Yes I know, the nongs got it wrong...

[Scion]

can't be the Rapide.
It still is in the hanger at Bankstown though it did many years ago have an engine failure at Hoxton Park

[Trojan1981]

It is SDR. looks like it has a bit of damage from turning over. I wonder what kind of $ it will need to fly again?:(

[frothy]

T/dragger, Nitpicky I know:}
But the Dragon (DH84) had the Gipsy Majors, wasn't the Rapide Gipsy Queens?
Had me bum in a Dragon for a lot of hours going nowhere at a rapid rate of knots:ok:

Frothy

[Trojan1981]

Spoke to him today. He is good and so is the pax. The aircraft will be out of the air for a while but will be repaired.