Date:	Monday 1 July 1946
Time:	15:15 LT
Type:	Gloster Meteor F Mk III
Owner/operator:	222 (Natal) Sqn RAF
Registration:	EE295
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Painters Wood, Powderham, 6 miles south of Exeter, Devon, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Exeter, Devon
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor F. Mk III EE295: To 504 (County of Nottingham) Squadron 27.4.45. Unit became 245 Sqn 10.8.45 coded "MR-G". To 222 (Natal) Squadron 15.11.45

Written off (destroyed) 1 July 1946 when flew into the ground in fog at Painters Wood, Powderham, 6 miles south of Exeter, Devon. Pilot killed. According to a history of RAF Exeter: "In June 1946, the airport saw its first jet aircraft arrive with 222 Squadron, and in only a month's stay they managed to lose one aircraft, a Meteor in a crash near Powderham."

Crew
Flt/Lt (148183) John David "Johnny" Thorogood (Pilot) RAF. Killed in service 1-7-46, commemorated at Ipswich Crematorium, Ipswich, Suffolk

The reported crash location of Powderham is a former manor on the coast of south Devon, England, situated within the historic hundreds of Exminster, about 6 miles (9.7 km) south of the city of Exeter and adjacent to the north-east of the village of Kenton. It consists in part of flat, formerly marshy ground on the west bank of the river Exe estuary where it is joined by its tributary the river Kenn, the site of Powderham Castle, at approximate co-ordinates: 50°63′54.7″N, 3°45′19.3″W.

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2. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p.173
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft EA100-EZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1988 p 19)
4. 222 Squadron ORB (Operations Record Book) for the period 1-1-1946 to 31-12-50: National Archives (PRO Kew) file AIR 27/2475 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C2505113
5. "RAF Write-offs 1946": Air Britain Aeromilitaria 1979 p.100: https://air-britain.com/pdfs/aeromilitaria/Aeromilitaria_1979.pdf
6. Air Britain Aeromilitaria Summer 2009: https://air-britain.com/pdfs/aeromilitaria/Aeromilitaria_2009.pdf p.71
7. https://www.southwestairfields.co.uk/page19.html
8. http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/em/airport.php
9. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2720803/john-david-johnny-thorogood/
10. https://www.ipswichwarmemorial.co.uk/john-david-thorogood/
11. http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?22349-460701-Unaccounted-Airmen-01-07-1946&p=130505#post130505
12. https://en-gb.facebook.com/779067228815027/posts/john-david-thorogoodphotograph-courtesy-of-mr-woodsjohnnyborn-18th-october-1922-/3984426188279099/
13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._222_Squadron_RAF#Entering_the_jet_age
14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor_of_Powderham

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
13-Nov-2019 21:24	Dr. John Smith	Added
17-Nov-2019 17:18	Anon.	Updated [Operator, Operator]
20-Jul-2021 19:53	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative, Category]
20-Jul-2021 19:54	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
20-Jul-2021 19:55	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Category]
20-Jul-2021 19:55	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]
26-Jul-2021 21:13	Anon.	Updated [Time, Location, Narrative, Operator]
28-Jul-2021 16:44	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Narrative]
28-Jul-2021 22:44	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]
28-Jul-2021 22:46	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]