Date:	Friday 6 June 1952
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB Mk 5
Owner/operator:	229 OCU RAF
Registration:	WA225
MSN:	EEP/42...
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Putsborough, mile west-northwest of Georgeham, Devon, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Chivenor, Barnstaple, Devon (EGDC)
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB Mk 5 WA225, 229 OCU (Operational Conversion Unit), RAF: delivered 17/6/1950. Written off 6/6/1952 when crashed at Putsborough, 1 mile west-northwest of Georgeham, Devon.

The aircraft was following a banner target towing aircraft during a turn to port. As the aircraft was on the inside of the turn, it appears that the pilot allowed the airspeed to decay below the minimum safe limit. The aircraft stalled, and dived into the ground at Putsborough. The pilot was killed

Crew of Vampire WA225:
Pilot Officer Anthony Richard Thomas (pilot) RAF - killed 6/6/1952

The reported crash location of Putsborough is a hamlet in Georgeham Civil Parish on the west-facing coast of North Devon, England. It is about 3⁄4 mile (1.2 km) north of the village of Croyde and 1 mile (1.6 km) west-northwest of the village of Georgeham

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p 129 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p 255
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
4. 229 OCU ORB (Operation Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/1/1951 to 31/12/1955: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 29/2167 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4101877
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putsborough
6. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WA
7. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH100%20prodn%20list.txt
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croyde

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
01-Mar-2008 23:56	JINX	Added
16-May-2015 17:37	Xindel	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Source]
18-Jan-2016 17:57	JIXN	Updated [Aircraft type]
09-Mar-2021 20:12	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
10-Mar-2021 09:50	Zoule	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Narrative, Operator]
10-Mar-2021 15:13	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]