Date:	Thursday 1 July 1954
Time:	day
Type:	North American Harvard T Mk 2B
Owner/operator:	Oxford UAS RAF
Registration:	KF718
MSN:	14A-2519
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	1 mile south of Brotheron, near Selby, North Yorkshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Driffield, North Yorkshire
Destination airport:	RAF Kidlington, Oxfordshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
North American Harvard T.2b KF718: Earliest known RAF service was with 500 (County of Kent) Squadron as "S7-S" (later "S")(May 1948 to June 1952), then Oxford UAS (University Air Squadron) from June 1952.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 1/7/54: Force landed in a field one mile South of Brotheron, near Selby, North Yorkshire after engine failure. Pilot - Pilot Officer C. L. Ionides - was uninjured.

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. The Harvard File (John F Hamlin, Air Britain, 1988 p 133)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.69
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherton

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
15-Apr-2020 00:12	Dr. John Smith	Added
15-Apr-2020 10:28	INV	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Operator]
15-Apr-2020 20:28	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Source]
16-Apr-2020 09:14	INV	Updated [Operator, Operator]