Date:	Sunday 11 April 1954
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor T Mk 7
Owner/operator:	611 (West Lancashire) Sqn RAF
Registration:	WF850
MSN:	G5/1513
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Hooton Park, Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Hooton Park, Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire
Destination airport:	RAF Hooton Park, Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor T.Mk.7 WF850: Delivered 18/6/51: RAF Service was with 607 (County of Durham) Squadron, and 611 (West Lancashire) Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force

Written off 11/4/54: Damaged beyond repair when forcelanded into a pond on approach to RAF Hooton Park, Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire for single-engine landing. Pilot - Flying Officer A P Stainforth - survived

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.155 ISBN 0-85130-290-4
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 40)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.51
4. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WF
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Hooton_Park#Post-war_operations

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
07-Jun-2008 10:24	JINX	Added
10-Jan-2012 15:44	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Source]
07-Apr-2020 21:05	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]