Date:	Monday 26 September 1949
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor F Mk 4
Owner/operator:	CFE RAF
Registration:	RA455
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF West Raynham, Fakenham, Norfolk, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF West Raynham, Norfolk
Destination airport:	RAF West Raynham, Norfolk

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor RA455: Delivered to the CFE (Central Flying Establishment) RAF West Raynham 3.11.47. To RAE Farnborough 7.5.49. Returned to CFE West Raynham 19/051949.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) when stalled on landing and undercarriage collapsed, RAF West Raynham, Fakenham, Norfolk, 26.9.49. (Pilot Col E F Rector OK). The pilot was undertaking his first solo on the Gloster Meteor F.4, and, after a 20-minute familiarisation flight, he returned to RAF West Raynham to land. However, the pilot allowed the Meteor's flying speed to fall below stalling speed, after making an approach at too high an altitude. The aircraft was wrecked in the subsequent heavy landing.

Damaged initially assessed as Cat B; but re-cat E 1.2.50 and Struck off Charge as scrap.

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2. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p.536
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
4. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/aeromilitaria/Aeromilitaria_2009.pdf p.130
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Fighter_Establishment
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