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Date: | Tuesday 23 August 1955 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10 |
Owner/operator: | Cambridge UAS RAF |
Registration: | WB561 |
MSN: | C1/0013 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | South Cerney, Cirencester, Gloucestershire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF South Cerney, Cirencester, Gloucestershire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:De Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunk T10, WB561: Delivered 17/2/50. RAF service career was with Oxford UAS (University Air Squadron), Bristol UAS and Cambridge UAS.
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 23/8/55 when Control column jammed, air aircraft side slipped into the ground at South Cerney, Cirencester, Gloucestershire. Both crew were uninjured.
Crew of Chipmunk WB561:
Flight Lieutenant H G Perry RAF (pilot)
Cadet Pilot J A C Atkins ATC RAF (passenger)
Struck off charge 6/9/55 at 49 MU RAF Colerne, Wiltshire
According to some sources, WB561 was rebuilt and supplied to the Irish Air Corps as "199". The fuselage of a Chipmunk marked "199" was present at the Irish Air Corps Museum at Baldonnel as recently as March 2019 (see links #7 & #9). However, it is possible that IAC 199 is a composite of several airframes, the largest pieces being the fuselage from WB561 and the wings of WG320 (civil registered as G-APTF for test flying and delivery).
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.173 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 19)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.152
4.
http://www.demobbed.org.uk/aircraft.php?type=343 5.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WB 6.
https://www.aviation-links.co.uk/Gloucestershire%20Aircraft%20Accidents.pdf 7.
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1291003 8.
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1376644 9.
https://www.key.aero/forum/historic-aviation/56963-chipmunk-question Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
01-Jun-2008 03:51 |
JINX |
Added |
08-Jun-2008 02:22 |
JINX |
Updated |
25-Jan-2020 22:42 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
25-Jan-2020 22:58 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
13-Feb-2020 07:53 |
Iwosh |
Updated [Operator, Nature, Operator] |
26-May-2020 22:54 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
26-May-2020 22:54 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |