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Date: | Tuesday 26 June 1956 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Supermarine Swift FR.5 |
Owner/operator: | Vickers Armstrong Aircraft Ltd |
Registration: | XD909 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | South Marston, near Swindon, Wiltshire -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Test |
Departure airport: | Chilbolton, Hampshire |
Destination airport: | South Marston, Swindon, Wiltshire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Supermarine Swift FR.5 XD909: Notified as awaiting collection 7/12/55. Never delivered, as retained for test flying on C(A) MoS (Controller (Aircraft) Ministry of Supply) charge at Vickers Armstrongs (Supermarine) at Chilbolton.
Written off 26/06/1956: The test flight from Chilbolton involving shutting down the engine in flight. Failed engine re-light at 25,000ft. The aircraft crashed near South Marston. Vickers-Supermarine Civilian Test Pilot Mr. Gordon Joseph "Chunky" Horne ejected at 2,800ft
This was his 2nd ejection (see also the crash of WK272 on 17/08/1955). XD909 was formally Struck Off Charge as Cat.5(s) on 23/4/57.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.180 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft XA100-XZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 2001 p 21)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.201
4.
http://web.archive.org/web/20171123224900/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/aircraft_by_type/swift/swift.htm 5.
http://www.hampshireairfields.co.uk/hancrash.html 6.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm 7.
http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?21513-quot-Brooklands-quot-Caterpillar-List&p=125871&styleid=3 8.
http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html 9.
https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/mardownload/@MAR_06_15.pdf Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
14-Apr-2013 00:38 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
22-Jun-2020 15:26 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Source, Narrative] |