Date:	Wednesday 18 July 1951
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.100 Vampire F Mk 1
Owner/operator:	103 FRS RAF
Registration:	VF303
MSN:	EEP/40143
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Wold Newton, 8 miles SW of Filey, North Yorkshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Full Sutton, North Yorkshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
de Havilland DH.100 Vampire F.Mk 1 VF303, 103 FRS, RAF: delivered 13/11/1946. Written off (Crashed and destroyed) when dived into the ground out of cloud at Wold Newton, 8 miles South West of Filey, North Yorkshire on 18/7/51. The pilot was killed, and a civilian cyclist, Mrs. Dyson, was injured by flying debris.

Crew of Vampire VF303
Flying Officer Kenneth George CARLETON, RAF (pilot, aged 28) - killed on operational service 18/7/1951

The RAF Board of Inquiry Report into the incident was inconclusive; the only eyewitness to what happened was the pilot, who was killed. However, it is possible that the pilot lost control of his aircraft while carrying out aerobatics, which may have resulted in the gyros toppling

The reported crash location of Wold Newton is a small Yorkshire Wolds village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 9 miles (14 km) south of Scarborough and 9 miles (14 km) north-west of Bridlington

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.115 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.160
4. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VF
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH100%20prodn%20list.txt
6. https://picclick.co.uk/DH-Vampire-VF303-at-Southend-air-display-1947-203190765754.html#&gid=1&pid=1
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wold_Newton,_East_Riding_of_Yorkshire

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
07-Mar-2013 18:59	Dr. John Smith	Added
13-Mar-2019 08:49	stehlik49	Updated [Operator]
08-Jan-2020 22:00	stehlik49	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
02-Feb-2021 23:14	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative]
02-Feb-2021 23:16	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]
05-Feb-2021 16:55	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Total fatalities, Narrative]