Date:	Sunday 11 April 1954
Time:	day
Type:	Auster T.7
Owner/operator:	663 Sqn RAF
Registration:	WE588
MSN:	3729
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	6.5 miles East of Chester, Cheshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Hooton Park, Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire
Destination airport:	RAF Hooton Park, Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Auster T.7 WE588: Delivered 6/2/51. RAF Service was with the AOP School and 663 Squadron, RAF.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 11/4/54: WE588 was attempting to take off again after making an earlier precautionary landing when it hit a fence on take-off from a field 6.5 miles East of Chester, Cheshire and the aircraft overturned. The pilot - Captain G A Mansfield - was only slightly injured.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.155 ISBN 0-85130-290-4
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 34)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.51
4. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WE
5. http://austerhg.org/prod_list/pages.php?page=4289
6. 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 22:01	JINX	Updated
09-Nov-2018 16:49	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]
07-Apr-2020 21:28	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]