Date:	Saturday 26 June 1954
Time:	day
Type:	Auster T.7
Owner/operator:	1954 Flt / 663 Sqn RAF
Registration:	WE541
MSN:	3728
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Barston, 2½ miles South of Hampton-in-Arden, Warwickshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Castle Bromwich Aerodrome, Warwickshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Auster T.Mk.7 WE541: Delivered 4/4/50. Sole RAF service was with 1954 Flight, 663 Squadron, RAF.

Written off (destroyed) 26/6/54: The aircraft was carrying out authorised flow flying exercises in gusty weather conditions when the pilot entered a turn to starboard, which allowed the aircraft to stall and dive into the ground, at Barston, 2½ miles South of Hampton-in-Arden, Warwickshire The pilot was killed.

Crew of Auster WE541
Lieutenant Ronald D Harrison (aged 35) Royal Artillery, Territorial Army - killed

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.160 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985 p.34)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.69
4. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WE
5. http://www.aviationarchaeology.org.uk/marg/crashes1950-88.htm
6. http://austerhg.org/prod_list/pages.php?page=4249
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barston
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._663_Squadron_RAF#Post-war_Service

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-May-2008 11:10	ASN archive	Added
04-Jun-2008 18:01	JINX	Updated
02-Feb-2012 10:36	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Source]
13-Apr-2020 22:38	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
26-Apr-2020 09:10	Reno Raines	Updated [Operator, Operator]