Date:	Wednesday 11 September 1946
Time:
Type:	Airspeed Oxford Mk I
Owner/operator:	Staverton SF RAF
Registration:	PK268
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Redmarley D’Abitot, Staunton, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Airspeed Aircraft, Christchurch Airfield
Destination airport:	RAF Staverton, Gloucestershire

Narrative:
Airspeed Oxford PK268, RAF Staverton Station Flight: Written off (destroyed) 11 September 1946 when crashed at Staunton, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire: The pilot was completing a ferry flight from the Airspeed factory at Christchurch to RAF Staverton. En-route, the Airspeed Oxford went out of control, went into a dive and crashed in a vertical attitude in a field located at Harts Farm, Chapel Lane, Redmarley D’Abitot, Staunton, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. The aircraft was destroyed by impact forces and the pilot was killed.

Crew of Oxford PK268:
F/O (202556) Thomas Henry KENYON (Pilot) RAFVR - killed on active service 11-9-46,
buried at St. John The Baptist Churchyard, Newton Nottage, Glamorgan.

Cause: It is believed that the loss of control was caused by the incapacitation of the pilot who became intoxicated by carbon monoxide from the engines leaking into the cabin.

1. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.51. ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. "RAF Write-offs 1946": Air Britain Aeromilitaria 1979 p.103: https://air-britain.com/pdfs/aeromilitaria/Aeromilitaria_1979.pdf
3. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p.214
4. Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain)
5. The Oxford, Envoy and Consul File (John F Hamlin, Air Britain, 2001 p 196)
6. http://www.aviation-links.co.uk/Gloucestershire%20Aircraft%20Accidents.pdf
7. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2717717/kenyon,-thomas-henry/
8. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/180471031/thomas-henry-kenyon
9. https://www.rafcommands.com/database/wardead/details.php?qnum=24873
10. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-airspeed-as10-oxford-i-redmarley-dabitot-1-killed
11. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AVIA 5/28/W2365: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6578211
12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redmarley_D%27Abitot

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
06-Sep-2013 19:30	JINX	Added
30-Jul-2017 21:03	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
14-Sep-2019 06:46	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]
06-Nov-2019 21:21	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
06-Nov-2019 21:22	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
12-Nov-2019 22:26	Anon.	Updated [Operator, Operator]
17-Nov-2019 01:48	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]
24-Nov-2019 00:27	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]
03-Jun-2023 18:57	Dr. John Smith	Updated [[Source, Narrative]]
06-Jun-2023 08:26	Nepa	Updated [[[Source, Narrative]]]