Date:	Friday 21 August 1953
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor T Mk 7
Owner/operator:	187 Sqn RAF
Registration:	WF841
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Aston Down, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Aston Down, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire
Destination airport:	RAF Aston Down, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor T.Mk.7 WF841, 187 Squadron, RAF: delivered 26/6/1951. Written off (damaged beyond repair) 21/8/1953 when Lost wheel on landing at RAF Aston Down, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire; aircraft overshot and bellylanded.

Meteor WF851 was Struck Off Charge as Cat.5(s) on 31/7/1958 at No.20 MU RAF Aston Down and sold to R J Coley & Son, Ascot, Berkshire, for reduction to components and scrap.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.149 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
3. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p 404
4. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WF
5. https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/20144
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._187_Squadron_RAF#Postwar_period
7. https://www.aviation-links.co.uk/Gloucestershire%20Aircraft%20Accidents.pdf
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Down#Post_Second_World_War

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
07-Jun-2008 04:02	JINX	Added
12-May-2015 16:51	BlB	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Destination airport]
11-May-2021 17:05	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative]
11-May-2021 17:06	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative]