Date:	Saturday 25 February 1956
Time:	day
Type:	Avro Anson C Mk 12
Owner/operator:	24 Gp CF RAF
Registration:	PH662
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Spitalgate, Grantham, Lincolnshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Taxi
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Spitalgate, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Avro Anson C.Mk.XII PH662, 24 Group Communications Flight RAF. Written off (damaged beyond repair) 25/2/56 when Undercarriage leg collapsed while taxiing at RAF Spitalgate, Grantham, Lincolnshire. Both occupants escaped uninjured while the aircraft was considered as damaged beyond repair.

Not repaired, Struck off Charge as Cat.5(c) on 12/3/56

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.178 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.183
4. The Anson File (Ray Sturtivant, Air Britain, 1988 p.129)
5. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm
6. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/ground-accident-avro-652a-anson-xii-raf-spitalgate
7. http://www.bcar.org.uk/1950s-incident-logs#1956

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
03-Mar-2012 16:34	Dr. John Smith	Added
30-Nov-2012 05:02	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location, Source]
04-Sep-2013 05:16	JINX	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
03-Jun-2015 15:17	Siczak	Updated [Operator, Departure airport]
16-Jan-2016 20:21	JIXN	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
12-Jun-2020 20:25	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
12-Jun-2020 21:01	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
13-Jun-2020 19:20	harry	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator]