Date:	Friday 18 January 1957
Time:	day
Type:	Auster AOP.9
Owner/operator:	LAS RAF
Registration:	WZ724
MSN:	B5/10/50
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Substantial
Location:	RAF Middle Wallop, Hampshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	AAC Middle Wallop, Hampshire (EGVP)
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Auster AOP.9 WZ724: Delivered to the RAF 10/11/1955. Operational service was with the LAS (Light Aircraft School), RAF Middle Wallop, Hampshire.

Substantially damaged 18/1/1957 in a flying accident, when crashed on takeoff, possibly at Middle Wallop, Hampshire. Struck off charge 22/5/1957 as Cat.5(gi): To ground instructional use 7432M at Middle Wallop. Later became a "gate guardian" on static display at Middle Wallop.

Sold off and civil registered as G-BXON on 01/12/1997. Sold to a new owner on 26/5/2016 and Restored to flying condition. Sadly, destroyed when crashed at Spanhoe, Harringworth, Northamptonshire on 18/6/2017, killing the pilot (see separate entry for full details)

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 page 110)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.210
4. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1957.htm
5. https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/modalapplication.aspx?catid=1&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=reg&fullregmark=BXON
6. http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=196198
7. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WZ

Auster AOP.9 WZ724 as the "gate guardian" at Middle Wallop in October 1989:

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
25-Dec-2012 13:18	Dr. John Smith	Added
19-Mar-2015 10:14	TB	Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Embed code]
23-Jul-2017 16:00	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
23-Dec-2019 22:30	stehlik49	Updated [Operator, Nature, Operator]
21-Feb-2020 18:17	Xindel XL	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Operator]
17-Jul-2020 22:13	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Source, Embed code, Narrative]
15-Feb-2021 10:34	Xindel	Updated [Operator, Location, Narrative, Operator]