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Date: | Friday 18 May 1956 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Auster T.7 |
Owner/operator: | LAS RAF |
Registration: | WE544 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Middle Wallop, Hampshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Taxi |
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 WE544: Delivered 2/6/50. RAF Service career was with 227 OCU, AOP School, and LAS (Light Aircraft School) at Middle Wallop,
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 18/5/56: Tipped up onto its nose on landing at Middle Wallop, Hampshire, whilst taxiing and taking action to avoid colliding with another aircraft.
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 34)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.197
4.
http://www.hampshireairfields.co.uk/hancrash.html 5.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm 6.
http://austerhg.org/prod_list/pages.php?page=4249 7.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WE Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
04-Jun-2008 18:24 |
JINX |
Added |
02-Mar-2012 11:28 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative] |
02-Mar-2012 11:34 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
18-Nov-2019 22:09 |
Anon. |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
15-Jun-2020 22:46 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
15-Feb-2021 10:35 |
Xindel |
Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |