Date:	Monday 5 May 1947
Time:	day
Type:	Bristol Beaufighter TT Mk 10
Owner/operator:	6 (C) OTU RAF
Registration:	RD569
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Kinloss, Kinloss, Moray Firth, Scotland -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Standing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Kinloss, Moray Firth, Scotland
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Bristol Beaufighter RD569 (Operational Training Unit): Written off (damaged beyond repair 5-5-47 at RAF Kinloss...although that may not have been the date that the damage was sustained.

On a pre-flight inspection on 5-5-47 while parked at RAF Kinloss, the aircraft was found to have a damaged stern frame. The damage was thought to have been sustained some days earlier during and overshoot and tail-down landing at RAF Kinloss on 25-4-47.

It is not certain, from the available records, why the damage was not detected earlier, nor if the aircraft was flown between 24-4-47 and 5-5-47. However, as the accident was only officially recorded on 5-5-47, it could be assumed that Beaufighter RD569 was flown - in its damage state - during the intervening period.

Beaufighter RD569 was not repaired, and therefore Struck off charge as Cat. E(FA) on 5-5-47

6 (Coastal) OTU RAF arrived at RAF Kinloss on October 1945, and became 236 OCU from 31-7-1946.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.111 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
3. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p.297
4. 6 OTU RAF ORB for the period 1-5-1940 to 30-6-1947: File AIR 29/608: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4100317
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._236_Operational_Conversion_Unit_RAF
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Kinloss#Cold_War

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-May-2023 21:05	Dr. John Smith	Added
17-May-2023 21:06	Dr. John Smith	Updated
17-May-2023 21:29	Nepa	Updated
18-May-2023 16:29	Dr. John Smith	Updated