Date:	Monday 28 June 1954
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor T Mk 7
Owner/operator:	228 OCU RAF
Registration:	WH239
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Scorton, Scorton, near Northallerton, North Yorkshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Initial climb
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor T.Mk.7 WH239: Notified as awaiting collection 29/2/52, delivered 4/3/52. RAF service was with 228 OCU RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire only

Written off (destroyed) 28/6/54: The aircraft lost its canopy shortly after take-off and was abandoned. It came to earth at RAF Scorton, near Scorton, Northallerton, North Yorkshire. Although the pilot decided to abandon the aircraft, he did not survive and was killed

Pilot of Meteor WH239:
Pilot Officer David Bartholomew BROWN (pilot, Service Number 4106247, aged 19)

The pilot had joined the RAF on 5/8/52, and attained the rank of Cadet Pilot on 10/12/52

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.160 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985 p.48)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.69
4. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WH
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Scorton#Postwar_use
6. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/39784/supplement/1089/data.pdf

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
10-Jun-2008 02:06	JINX	Added
12-May-2015 17:32	BlB	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location]
13-Apr-2020 23:39	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
14-Apr-2020 10:01	INV	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Operator]