Date:	Monday 2 December 1946
Time:
Type:	de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk XVI
Owner/operator:	139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF
Registration:	PF573
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Ilfracombe Golf Course, Hele Bay, east of Ilfracombe, Devon, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Mosquito PF573: Took off for training flight /Gee Cross Country with bombing at Wainfleet. 02/12/1946.
Crash after In-flight fire. The aircraft was flying in cloud when both engines carburettors froze up and the engines lost power. The pilot could not retain control and the plane crashed on the (old) Ilfracombe Golf Course, Hele Bay, E of Ilfracombe.
Crew:
F/O (57561) Edmund George Hanson WAREING (pilot) RAF - killed
F/Sgt (1850283) Donald COLBOURNE (nav.) RAFVR - killed

1. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txtt
2. ORB 139 Sqdn RAF: AIR27/2434/19
3. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8439321
4. Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
5. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AVIA 5/28/W2368:
6. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6578214
7. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty.
8. http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/help-with-raf-casualtys-raf-service-numbers.17206/#post-221771
9. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C2505091
10. http://www.ilfracombegolfclub.com/contact-ilfracombe-golf-club-north-devon/
11. https://www.rafcommands.com/database/wardead/details.php?qnum=47541
12. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. ISBN 0-85130-290-4.

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
31-Aug-2013 21:18	JINX	Added
30-Sep-2013 11:50	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
07-Jun-2014 21:00	Nepa	Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
17-Sep-2014 11:41	Jixon	Updated [Location, Narrative]
24-Oct-2014 16:55	Digger	Updated [Total fatalities, Departure airport, Narrative]
25-Jan-2015 15:04	Anon.	Updated [Other fatalities, Location]
05-Aug-2015 12:52	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type]
19-Jun-2019 20:32	Nepa	Updated [Narrative, Operator]
18-Nov-2019 19:10	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative]
19-Nov-2019 22:56	Nepa	Updated [Location, Source, Narrative, Operator]
05-Jul-2021 10:09	Next	Updated [Time, Source, Operator]
19-Nov-2021 17:11	Nepa	Updated [Location, Narrative, Operator]
24-May-2023 11:03	Dr. John Smith	Updated [[Location, Narrative, Operator]]
24-May-2023 16:03	Nepa	Updated [[[Location, Narrative, Operator]]]
13-Sep-2023 18:01	Nepa	Updated [[[[Location, Narrative, Operator]]]]