Date:	Wednesday 15 March 1950
Time:	night
Type:	Vickers Wellington T Mk X
Owner/operator:	201 AFS RAF
Registration:	PG419
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Stapleford, 3.5 miles south of RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:	RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Vickers Wellington T.Mk.X PG419, 201 AFS (Advanced Flying School), RAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 15 March 1950. The crew was performing a night BAT (Beam Approach Training) sortie. On final approach in low visibility, the aircraft crashed in a field near Stapleford, North Kesteven, 3.5 miles short of the runway threshold. There were no casualties.

Stapleford is a village and civil parish in North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, and about 6 miles (10 km) north-east from the town of Newark-on-Trent and 12 miles (19 km) south-west from the city of Lincoln, at approximate coordinates 53.109119°N 0.683137°W

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.90 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.39
4. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-vickers-619-wellington-x-raf-swinderby-0
5. http://www.bcar.org.uk/1950s-incident-logs#1950
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stapleford,_Lincolnshire

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
02-Sep-2013 02:07	JINX	Added
27-Apr-2015 19:43	Slizack	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
23-Apr-2017 22:43	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
15-Dec-2020 17:21	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative]
15-Dec-2020 17:48	Slizack	Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Operator]
15-Dec-2020 17:50	Glog	Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Operator]