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Date: | Tuesday 22 January 1952 |
Time: | day |
Type: | North American Harvard T.2B |
Owner/operator: | CFS RAF |
Registration: | FT424 |
MSN: | 14A-1464 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Stow-on-The-Wold, Gloucestershire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Little Rissington, Cirencester, Gloucestershire |
Destination airport: | RAF Little Rissington, Cirencester, Gloucestershire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Harvard 43-13165 (MSN 14A-1464) Delivered to RAF as Harvard IIb FT424. To No 2 FIS (Flying Instructor School), Montrose, Scotland May 1944. To 7 FIS (Flying Instructor School), Upavon, Pewsey, Wiltshire June 1945. To Central Flying School, Little Rissington, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire May 1946, as "FDM-F"
Written off (damged beyond repair) 22 January 1952: hit a tree and crashed while low flying near Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire. The pilot is believed to have survived with only minor injuries.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.124 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. The Harvard File (John F Hamlin, Air Britain, 1988
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.216
4.
http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1943_2.html 5.
https://www.aviation-links.co.uk/Gloucestershire%20Aircraft%20Accidents.pdf 6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stow-on-the-Wold Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
23-Feb-2021 01:45 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
23-Feb-2021 09:12 |
Froome |
Updated [Operator, Location, Operator] |