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Date: | Friday 9 January 1953 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Percival Proctor Mk V |
Owner/operator: | Air Attache, Rome |
Registration: | VN895 |
MSN: | AE.92 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Abingdon, Oxfordshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | RAF Abingdon, Oxfordshire (EGUD) |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Percival Proctor Mk.V VN895, Air Attache Rome: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 10/1/53 when brakes failed and aircraft ground looped during landing at night at RAF Abingdon, Oxfordshire. No fatalities reported.
Aircraft had dual civil/military identities; after the above accident, the damaged airframe was repaired and sold off as G-ANAT (C of R R.4076/1) on 18/7/53. As G-ANAT, it had three owners until it was Damaged beyond repair at Elmdon Airport, Birmingham, 20/4/58. Regsitration G-ANAT cancelled 21/10/58 as "Withdrawn".
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.139 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p 327
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 73)
4.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VN 5.
https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ANAT.pdf Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
14-Nov-2010 11:55 |
ASN archive |
Added |
24-Dec-2013 13:01 |
TB |
Updated [Date, Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
08-Jan-2020 02:01 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
09-Apr-2021 18:56 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |