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Date: | Thursday 24 May 1956 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Auster T.7 |
Owner/operator: | LAS RAF |
Registration: | WE615 |
MSN: | 3799 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Middle Wallop, Hampshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Middle Wallop, Hampshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Middle Wallop, Hampshire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Auster T.7 WE615: Delivered 31/12/51. Sole RAF career was with the LAS (Light Aircraft School) RAF Middle Wallop, Hampshire
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 24/5/56 when braked hard and nosed over on landing at Middle Wallop, Hampshire. Not repaired, but no reports of any injuries to the two crew.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.180 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p.35)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.197
4.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm 5.
http://austerhg.org/prod_list/pages.php?page=4309 6.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WE 7.
http://www.hampshireairfields.co.uk/hancrash.html Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-May-2008 11:10 |
ASN archive |
Added |
04-Jun-2008 22:36 |
JINX |
Updated |
02-Mar-2012 12:08 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative] |
18-Nov-2019 22:09 |
Anon. |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
15-Jun-2020 23:27 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
15-Feb-2021 10:35 |
Xindel |
Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |