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Date: | Thursday 29 November 1956 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH.115 Vampire T Mk 11 |
Owner/operator: | 8 FTS RAF |
Registration: | XH300 |
MSN: | 15654 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:de Havilland DH.115 Vampire T.Mk 11 XH300: Delivered 6/12/1955. Sole operational service was with 8 FTS RAF
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 29/11/1956: The pilot was instructed to abandon take off from RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire due to sparks coming from the engine. The pilot raised the undercarriage to facilitate an emergency stop. Cause of accident was a blanking plate being left in the air intake resulting in an overheated engine.
Wreckage recovered to 54 MU RAF Cambridge, where Struck Off Charge 24/4/1957 as Cat.5(s)
Sources:
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 XA100-XZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 2001 p 50)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.223
4.
http://www.bcar.org.uk/1950s-incident-logs#1956 5.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm 6.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH115%20prodn%20list.txt 7.
https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh115.pdf 8.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=XH Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
07-Mar-2013 21:59 |
Dr. John Smith |
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25-Dec-2018 21:06 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Operator] |
10-Jan-2020 18:52 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
15-Jul-2020 21:38 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
16-Jul-2020 10:05 |
Yarbi |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |