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Date: | Wednesday 11 January 1956 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Gloster Meteor F Mk 8 |
Owner/operator: | Empire Test Pilots School (ETPS) |
Registration: | VZ451 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Warton airfield, Warton, near Preston, Lancashire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Farnborough Airfield, Farnborough, Hampshire (EGLF) |
Destination airport: | Warton Airfield, Lancashire (WRT/EGNO) |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Meteor WV451: Delivered 21/8/50. Issued 29/8/50 to 43 Squadron, RAF Tangmere, West Sussex, coded "SW-U" and later "U". Withdrawn from service from 43 Squadron 5/5/53 and sent to Gloster Aircraft at Hucclecote for refurbishment. Then issued to the ETPS (Empire Test Pilots School) at Farnborough
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 11/1/1956: the aircraft was being flown from Farnborough to Warton so that the pilot could undertake a liaison visit to the English Electric Company. VZ451 hit the lip of the runway after landing short at Warton, Lancashire ripping off both undercarriage legs. It was not repaired and was allocated for spares use at 60 MU. (Struck Off Charge as Cat.5(c) 31/1/56). The pilot was uninjured.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.177 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 104)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.173
4. The Fighting Cocks: 43 (Fighter) Squadron By Jimmy Bedle
5.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm 6.
http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html 7.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VZ Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
11-Mar-2013 22:53 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
11-Mar-2013 22:55 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
26-Oct-2017 19:15 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
04-Dec-2018 09:03 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
21-Feb-2020 14:26 |
Iwosh |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Operator] |
08-Jun-2020 22:25 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
27-Jun-2022 12:02 |
Nepa |
Updated [Location, Narrative, Operator] |