Date:	Thursday 4 August 1949
Time:
Type:	North American Harvard T.2B
Owner/operator:	613 (City of Manchester) Sqn RAF
Registration:	KF387
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Ringway, Cheshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Ringway, Cheshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Harvard KF387: Written off (damaged beyond repair) in a take-off accident at RAF Ringway. 04/08/1949
Immediately after take-off from RAF Ringway, the pilot allowed the aircraft to stall, and a wing dropped. The instructor pilot then took control, but could not prevent the aircraft from falling back to earth, running through the perimeter hedge and overturning.

The aircraft was damaged beyond repair, but the two crew (Instructor Pilot and Pupil Pilot Under Training) appeared to have survived without injury.

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.522
3. The Harvard File (John F. Hamlin, Air Britain, 1988 p.121)
4. ORB 613 Sqdn RAF: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 27/2520 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C2505158
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._613_Squadron_RAF#Postwar_operations
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Manchester_Airport#After_World_War_II:_back_to_civilian_use

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