Date:	Tuesday 20 May 1952
Time:	night
Type:	Gloster Meteor F Mk 4
Owner/operator:	203 AFS RAF
Registration:	VW274
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Driffield, East Yorkshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Driffield, East Yorkshire
Destination airport:	RAF Driffield, East Yorkshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor F4, VW274, 203 AFS (Advanced Flying School) RAF: delivered 19/1/1949. Written off 20/5/1952 when crashed at RAF Driffield, East Yorkshire. The aircraft made a wheels up belly landing at night at Driffield, but the pilot was apparently uninjured.

Crew of Meteor VW274:
Pilot Officer J H Gisbourne, RAF (pilot) - survived uninjured

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.128 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.249
4. 203 AFS ORB (Operations Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/1/1951 to 31/5/1954: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 29/2145/1 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7162858
5. VW274 with 504 (County of Nottingham) Squadron, RAF, March 1950: RAF in Camera 1950s p.20 By Keith Wilson
6. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VW

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
08-Mar-2021 19:11	Dr. John Smith	Added
08-Mar-2021 20:19	Leliczek	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator]