Date:	Saturday 17 September 1949
Time:	day
Type:	Hawker Tempest Mk V
Owner/operator:	1689 (FPP) Flt RAF
Registration:	SN328
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Aston Down, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature:	Demo/Airshow/Display
Departure airport:	RAF Aston Down, Gloucestershire
Destination airport:	RAF Aston Down, Gloucestershire

Narrative:
Hawker Tempest SN328, 1689 (Ferry Pilots Pool) Flight RAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 17-9-1949 when crashed during a 'Battle of Britain' air display at RAF Aston Down, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire.

The Pilot was taking part in a Battle of Britain air display at RAF Aston Down when the engine failed during the display. Realising that the aircraft would not reach the runway at Aston Down, the pilot made a wheels-up landing outside the airfield boundary.

The subsequent Board of Inquiry ruled that, if the pilot had turned in to his final turn earlier than he did, he might have reached the runway.

1. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p.533
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
4. https://www.aviation-links.co.uk/Gloucestershire%20Aircraft%20Accidents.pdf
5. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/military/Crashes_Wales_and_West_Midlands.pdf
6. https://kampfgruppe144.blogspot.com/2021/06/1144-hawker-tempest-mkvtt5-in-final.html
7. https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/media/hawker-tempest-mk-v-srs-ii.5003/
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Down#Post_Second_World_War

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