Date:	Thursday 20 May 1954
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10
Owner/operator:	RAF College Cranwell
Registration:	WP853
MSN:	C1/0738
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	1 mile west of Anwick, near Sleaford, Lincolnshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Cranwell, Sleaford, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10 WP853: Delivered 8/9/52. RAF Service was with 10 FTS and then RAF College, Cranwell

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 20/5/54 when it stalled on approach whilst making a practice forced landing one mile west of RAF Anwick, near Sleaford, Lincolnshire. Both crew escaped uninjured.

Crew of Chipmunk WP853
Flight Lt D.G.Briggs (Instructor Pilot, aged 27)
Flight Cadet N.P.May (pupil pilot under instruction, aged 19)

Formally struck off charge 01/06/1954 at No.54 MU Cambridge; parts used to repair/rebuild Chipmunk T.10 WP975

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.158 ISBN 0-85130-290-4
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 84)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.57
4. http://www.bcar.org.uk/1950s-incident-logs#1954
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WP

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
15-Nov-2011 09:49	Dr. John Smith	Added
10-Apr-2020 20:02	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Total occupants, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
10-Apr-2020 20:04	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Location, Source, Narrative]