Believed to have been on 7th November 1943 this aircraft was being flown on a training flight, flying out of Hucknall airfield with 25 E.F.T.S. with a basic trainee pilot at the controls. During the flight the aircraft crashed on land to the east of Huddersfield, in the Upper Heaton / Nab Hill area. A minor problem with the identity of the aircraft being Tiger Moth DE676 is that the aircraft is rumoured to have been destroyed in the crash and DE676 was flying until 1959.
Pilot - Name unknown.
If the identity of the aircraft was Tiger Moth DE676 then it was repaired and sustained damage again in a flying accident on 23rd December 1944 in a forced landing between Coltishall and Bradwell Bay. Again it was repaired and survived the War. Postwar much more information is known. Post-WW2 DE676 was sold off by the RAF and was first registered on the UK civilian register as G-AITD on 31st October 1946 to Lockwoods Flying Service Ltd, based at Speeton, East Yorkshire. Lockwoods Flying Service Ltd was wound up as a company in December 1949 so the aircraft appears to have been an asset and was sold off. It next appears registered to W.S.Shackleton Ltd, whos office was Piccadilly, London, and was registered by them on 1st June 1950 but this was probably only a paper transfer. During 1950 it may not have actually left Yorkshire because by the end of November 1950 it was back in Yorkshire, this time being owned by the East Riding Flying Club (Speeton) Ltd and was based at Bridlington aerodrome (possibly still at the same Speeton airstrip). It was then sold to Whiteley (Rishworth) Ltd, registered to them on 7th July 1954 and it appears to have been based at Rishworth. On 7th July 1959 it was being operated by the Yorkshire Flying Services Ltd when it flew into a low bank on the side of a reservoir next to Yeadon aerodrome (Leeds-Bradsford airport) and came to rest in the water itself. The pilot Mr A E Dyer and his un-named passenger survived but the aircraft was badly damaged both by the impact and by water. After this incident it was not repaired and was finally recorded as being destroyed on the paperwork much later on 11th March 1963.