Date:	Thursday 3 June 1954
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor T Mk 7
Owner/operator:	8 FTS RAF
Registration:	WL483
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Substantial
Location:	near RAF Coleby Grange, 6 miles SSE of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor T.Mk.7 WL483: Awaiting collection 25/11/52, delivered 16/1/53. RAF service was with 203 AFS, 8 FTS, RAF Flying College, and 8 FTS a second time.

Written off (destroyed) 3/6/54: Both crew bailed out and abandoned the aircraft after it went into an intentional spin (spinning recovery exercise) and the aircraft could not be recovered from the spin. Both crew survived, but the aircraft dived into the ground at high speed near Coleby Grange, 6 miles South South East of Lincoln, Lincolnshire

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.159 ISBN 0-85130-290-4
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 74)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.60
4. http://www.bcar.org.uk/1950s-incident-logs#1954
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WL

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
12-Apr-2020 01:46	Dr. John Smith	Added
12-Apr-2020 06:23	Investig	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator]
12-Apr-2020 20:03	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
12-Apr-2020 20:04	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
11-Jul-2023 21:55	Nepa	Updated [[Narrative]]