Date:	Wednesday 16 March 1949
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.100 Vampire F Mk 3
Owner/operator:	CFS RAF
Registration:	VT798
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Longborough, near Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Little Rissington, Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Destination airport:	RAF Little Rissington, Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
De Havilland Vampire VT798 (Central Flying School): Written off (destroyed) when crashed 16 March 1949 at Longborough, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north of Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire. Pilot killed.

Pilot II Thomas Millward JACKS (572252, aged 27) of Central Flying School, RAF Little Rissington, was on his first flight in a jet when his aircraft crashed in a flat spin at The Crock, Longborough, near Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire.

Pilot II Jacks was a married man from Bolton, Lancs and had joined the RAF in 1937 as an apprentice. He had about 1100 hrs experience on piston engine aircraft at the time of the crash.

1. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.86. ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Gloucestershire Echo 18 March 1949
3. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p.486
4. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
5. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AVIA 5/29/W2445: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6578291
6. CFS ORB for the period 1-4-46 to 31-12-50: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 29/1787: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4101497
7. https://www.gov.uk/search-armed-forces-memorial-roll-of-honourroll-of-honour.php?SerialNo=R650
8. http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1940-1949_28.html
9. https://www.aviation-links.co.uk/Gloucestershire%20Aircraft%20Accidents.pdf
10. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VT
11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longborough

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
30-Aug-2013 06:12	DustyRN	Added
22-Jan-2014 15:45	Anon.	Updated [Registration]
10-Jul-2014 05:28	angels one five	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Nature, Narrative]
19-May-2015 06:33	Digger	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative]
03-Dec-2019 19:26	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Phase, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
08-Dec-2019 17:17	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Narrative, Operator]