Date:	Wednesday 28 February 1951
Time:	night
Type:	North American Harvard T Mk 2B
Owner/operator:	2 FTS RAF
Registration:	KF659
MSN:	14A-2360
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Scredington, 3.5 miles SE of Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
North American Harvard T.2B KF659, 2 FTS, RAF: Written off (destroyed) 28/2/51 when crashed at Scredington, South East of RAF Cranwell, Sleaford, Lincolnshire. The pilot (flying solo) was killed.

The pilot was engaged in a low level cross country night navigation exercise but lost control and stalled in a steeply banked turn the near the ground in poor visibility, at Scredington, three-and-a-half miles south east Sleaford, Lincolnshire

Crew of Harvard KF659:
Officer Cadet Norman Edward Vickers, RAF aged 26

The reported crash location of Scredington is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south-east from the town of Sleaford, and 9 miles south-east of Cranwell, at approximate co ordinates 52.951120°N 0.37282°W

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.111 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 Colin Cummings p 119
3. The Harvard File (John F Hamlin, Air Britain, 1988 p 132)
4. National Archives (PRO Kew) File BT233/43: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C424164
5. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AVIA 5/31/S2517: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6578363
6. http://www.bcar.org.uk/1950s-incident-logs#1951

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
27-Dec-2019 18:02	Dr. John Smith	Added
27-Dec-2019 21:43	stehlik49	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Nature, Operator]
13-Jan-2021 15:30	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Narrative]
13-Jan-2021 20:13	Koumes	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Operator]