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Date: | Tuesday 17 April 1951 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk XVI |
Owner/operator: | 1689 Flt RAF |
Registration: | TE441 |
MSN: | CBAF.4576 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 2 miles south of RAF Hereford, Credenhill, Herefordshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Aston Down, Gloucestershire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Spitfire TE441 : Delivered to the RAF at 6 MU Brize Norton 1-8-45. To 203 AFS RAF Chivenor 7-9-48 as "HX-C". To APS RAF Acklington 6-12-49. To FT charge at 20MU RAF Aston Down 27-12-50. To 1689 Flight Aston Down 15-2-51
Written off (damaged beyond repair) when engine cut during roll crash-landed 2 miles south of RAF Hereford, Credenhill, Herefordshire 17-4-51
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.112 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.129
4.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p112.html 5.
http://www.hrmtech.com/sig/dctypes.asp 6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferry_Training_Unit_RAF 7.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Credenhill Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
18-Jan-2021 02:01 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
18-Jan-2021 08:44 |
Sicak |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Narrative, Operator] |