Date:	Saturday 25 May 1957
Time:	day
Type:	De Havilland DH.112 Venom NF Mk 3
Owner/operator:	89 Sqn RAF
Registration:	WX912
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Stradishall, Suffolk -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Stradishall, Suffolk
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
De Havilland Venom NF Mk.3 WX912: Delivered 08/11/1955. Sole operational service career was as "L" of 89 Squadron, RAF Stradishall.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 25/05/1957: Tail damaged by engine scorching on take off from RAF Stradishall, Suffolk. Not repaired, airframe deemed "beyond economic repair"; instead struck off charge as Cat.5(G/I) and reallocated to Ground Instructional use as 7448M on 21/06/1957. In the event, this was not taken up, and WX912 was scrapped in July 1957.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.189 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 107)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.248
4. 89 Squadron ORB (Operational Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/1/1956 to 30/4/1958: File AIR 27/2801/2 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8431018
5. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1957.htm
6. https://www.nationalcoldwarexhibition.org/research/squadrons/89/
7. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH112%20prodn%20list.txt
8. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WX

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
03-Apr-2013 17:13	Dr. John Smith	Added
10-Apr-2013 09:04	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location]
04-Aug-2020 22:45	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Location, Source, Narrative]
07-Aug-2020 13:22	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Aircraft type]