Date:	Thursday 1 November 1956
Time:	day
Type:	Hawker Hunter F Mk 1
Owner/operator:	CFE DFLS RAF
Registration:	WW600
MSN:	HABL/
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near RAF West Raynham, Fakenham, Norfolk -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF West Raynham, Fakenham, Norfolk
Destination airport:	RAF West Raynham, Norfolk
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Hawker Hunter F.Mk.1 WW600: Built by Hawker Aircraft Blackpool, Lancashire. First flown at Blackpool 7/7/1954. Delivered to the RAF 16/8/1954. Sole operational service career was with the CFE DFLS (Central Fighter Establishment Day Fighter Leaders School) at RAF West Raynham.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 1/11/1956: Sustained bird strike near RAF West Raynham, Fakenham, Norfolk. Landed back at West Raynham, Norfolk but later declared a write off, and struck off charge as Cat.5(c) 1/11/1956.

Moved to RAF Sutton-on-Hull fire fighting training school for crash rescue training (photographed there in June 1959)

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.184 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 90)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.218
4. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm
5. Hunter WW600 at Sutton-on-Hull June 1959: http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1066441/
6. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WW
7. Serious birdstrike-related accidents to military aircraft of Europe and Israel: list and analysis of circumstances / W. John Richardson (Published in International 8ird Strike Committee Proceedings and Papers 23)

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

3 April 1957

WW643

229 OCU RAF

0

RAF Chivenor, Barnstaple, Devon

w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
10-Jan-2009 11:55	ASN archive	Added
17-Jul-2010 12:38	harro	Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Source, Narrative]
04-Dec-2011 07:12	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Location, Phase, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
10-Mar-2019 18:44	stehlik49	Updated [Operator, Narrative]
14-Jul-2020 21:28	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
15-Jul-2020 13:46	Yarbi	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Destination airport, Operator]