Date:	Friday 2 August 1946
Time:	day
Type:	Supermarine Spitfire FR Mk XIV
Owner/operator:	2 Sqn RAF
Registration:	NH757
MSN:	6S 583895
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Sylt, near Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany -   Germany
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany
Destination airport:	RAF Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany

Narrative:
NH757: Spitfire FR.XIV, MSN 6S-583895. Built by Vickers Armstrong (Supermarine) at Aldermaston, Berkshire with a Griffon G65 engine. To 29MU RAF High Ercall, Shropshire 26-3-45. To 414 (City of Sarnia) Squadron RCAF 26-4-45 coded "D", later "RU-D". After the war ended, the squadron disbanded at Lüneburg Airfield ALG B-156 (Advanced Landing Ground B156), West Germany on 7-8-45. To 2 Squadron, RAF Celle, Lower Saxony, West Germany 9-8-45

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 2-9-46 in a wheels-up landing at RAF Sylt, near Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany. A defective tyre burst on takeoff from RAF Sylt, near Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The pilot, aware of this, successfully took off, flew a circuit of RAF Sylt, and then made a wheels-up belly landing back at RAF Sylt. The pilot as apparently uninjured.

Damage initially assessed as Cat. C (Repairable) 2-9-46. However, not repaired and re-cat E. Struck off charge as Cat. E(FA) 12-9-46

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2. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p.208
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft MA100-MZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
4. 2 Squadron ORB (Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) 1 Jan 1946 to 31 Dec 1950: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 27/2388/2 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8418930
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9. Spitfire FR. XIV RCAF 414Sqn 'D' NH757 Wunsdorf Germany 1-5-45: https://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Spitfire/RCAF/pages/Spitfire-FRXIV-RCAF-414Sqn-D-NH757-Wunsdorf-Germany-Apr-1945-01.html
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._2_Squadron_RAF#Cold_War_(1945%E2%80%931988)
11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Sylt

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
08-Jun-2023 08:01	Nepa	Updated
14-Sep-2023 10:29	Dr. John Smith	Updated