Date:	Monday 11 February 1946
Time:	day
Type:	Hawker Typhoon Mk IB
Owner/operator:	151 RU RAF
Registration:	PD604
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Wevelgem Airfield, West Flanders -   Belgium
Phase:	Standing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Wevelgem, Belgium
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Hawker Typhoon Mk.1B PD604, 151 RU (Repair Unit) RAF: Written off (Damaged beyond repair) in a ground incident 11.2.1946 and Struck Off Charge as Cat.E.

Note that the aircraft's record card does not record where this incident took place, only the date. However, at the date of the incident, the Typhoon was on charge with 151 RU (Repair Unit) RAF, which was based at Wevelgem, Belgium, between October 1944 and December 1947. Hence the presumption (due to the lack of available records) that the incident took place at Wevelgem.

It is believed that Typhoon PD604 was the last Hawker Typhoon to be withdrawn from operational use, as the result of an accident. By February 1946, the type was considered obsolescent, and most had already been Struck Off Charge before this date

1. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.30 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p.68
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
4. 151 RU RAF ORB (Operations Record Book)(Air Mininstry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1-10-44 to 31-12-47: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 29/825/4 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7161658
5. https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/32/a1120032.shtml
6. https://www.hawkertempest.se/index.php/contributions/stories/132-leading-aircraftman-walter-reed
7. http://www.hinckleypastpresent.org/jamespickering.html

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
30-Aug-2013 12:11	JINX	Added
20-Sep-2014 08:01	Oezil	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
19-Oct-2014 09:38	Jixn	Updated [Narrative]
11-Jun-2021 23:28	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative]
11-Jun-2021 23:29	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
12-Jun-2021 09:39	Mustang	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator]
30-Jun-2022 03:04	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]