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Date: | Tuesday 25 November 1952 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH.112 Venom FB.1 |
Owner/operator: | A&AEE Boscombe Down |
Registration: | WE258 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Ogbury Camp, Durnford, 2 miles W of Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, England -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Boscombe Down, Wiltshire (EGDM) |
Destination airport: | RAF Boscombe Down, (EGDM) |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:DeHavilland DH.112 Venom FB.1 WE258: Built by DH Hatfield as the 4th production Venom FB.1. Delivered 12/2/52, but never saw RAF service, Retained by the Manufacturers and the A&AEE Boscombe Down for test flying, particularly related to gunnery and bombing trials. Sixty-two air firing sorties were carried out with WE258 in five months between 7/3/52 and 12/8/52
Written off (destroyed) 25/11/52: Collided with Vickers Valetta VW203 of 30 Squadron, RAF, soon after joining the circuit at Boscombe Down, tearing off starboard wing. The Valetta crash-landed without fatalities one and a half miles west of Boscombe Down. The Venom dived into the ground killing the pilot at Ogbury Camp, Durnford, 2 miles West of Boscombe Down, Wiltshire. The Venom was involved in "bomb handling" trials on the Larkhill Ranges on Salisbury Plain.
Test Pilot: Squadron Leader Christorpher Gordon Clark DFC, RAF, "A" Squadron, A&AEE Boscombe Down (Service Number 109031) - killed on test flight 25/11/52.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.137 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 32)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.313
4.
https://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/memorial/entry.php?id=223 5.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH112%20prodn%20list.txt 6.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WE 7.
https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-vickers-607-aletta-c1-raf-boscombe-down 8. A&AEE Declassified Report:
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD0005795.pdf .
Revision history:
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03-Jun-2008 23:55 |
JINX |
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18-Jun-2008 00:53 |
JINX |
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26-Jan-2013 15:34 |
Nepa |
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14-Oct-2013 11:19 |
Nepa |
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07-Jun-2020 18:15 |
Dr. John Smith |
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08-Jun-2020 18:48 |
Dr. John Smith |
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30-Mar-2021 16:51 |
Dr. John Smith |
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30-Mar-2021 16:56 |
Dr. John Smith |
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