Date:	Friday 12 April 1957
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10
Owner/operator:	Leeds UAS RAF
Registration:	WK582
MSN:	C1/0604
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	1/2 mile west of Harewood House, near Leeds, West Yorkshire. -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Yeadon, West Yorkshire (EGNM/LBA)
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10 WK582: Delivered 28/3/1952. Operational Service career was with 25 RFS (Reserve Flying School) 16 RFS (coded "51"), and Leeds UAS (University Air Squadron)

Written off (destroyed) 12/4/1957: The aircraft took off from RAF Yeadon, West Yorkshire, to carry out aerobatic training (spins, stalls, and steep turns). Forty five minutes after take off Chipmunk WK582 was seen over the Harewood Estate, carrying out aerobatics. In one of these aerobatic manoeuvres the aircraft went into a spin, from which it did not recover. The Chipmunk dived into the ground and was destroyed, killing the pilot

Crew of Chipmunk WK582:
Cadet Pilot David Ernest Young RAF (pilot, aged 20)

Note that several published sources give the crash location in error as "Harwood". The crash location was half-a-mile from Harewood House, a country house in Harewood near Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, at approximate coordinates 53°53′48″N 1°31′42″W. "Harwood" is near Bolton, Lancashire, approximately 54 miles away!

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.189 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 68)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.242
4. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1957.htm
5. WK582 in 1955 at Burnaston, Derby: https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1472429
6. http://www.ukserials.com/prodlists.php?type=343
7. http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
18-Jun-2008 13:39	JINX	Added
09-Nov-2011 06:26	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
17-Dec-2016 21:14	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]
13-Feb-2020 08:01	Iwosh	Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Operator]
02-Aug-2020 21:09	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
02-Aug-2020 21:24	Iwosh	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator]
03-Aug-2020 17:28	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Location, Narrative]
03-Aug-2020 17:28	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]