Date:	Thursday 29 November 1956
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.115 Vampire T Mk 11
Owner/operator:	8 FTS RAF
Registration:	XH300
MSN:	15654
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
de Havilland DH.115 Vampire T.Mk 11 XH300: Delivered 6/12/1955. Sole operational service was with 8 FTS RAF

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 29/11/1956: The pilot was instructed to abandon take off from RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire due to sparks coming from the engine. The pilot raised the undercarriage to facilitate an emergency stop. Cause of accident was a blanking plate being left in the air intake resulting in an overheated engine.

Wreckage recovered to 54 MU RAF Cambridge, where Struck Off Charge 24/4/1957 as Cat.5(s)

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.184 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft XA100-XZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 2001 p 50)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.223
4. http://www.bcar.org.uk/1950s-incident-logs#1956
5. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm
6. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH115%20prodn%20list.txt
7. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh115.pdf
8. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=XH

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
07-Mar-2013 21:59	Dr. John Smith	Added
25-Dec-2018 21:06	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Operator]
10-Jan-2020 18:52	stehlik49	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
15-Jul-2020 21:38	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Source, Narrative]
16-Jul-2020 10:05	Yarbi	Updated [Operator, Operator]