Date:	Tuesday 15 August 1944
Time:
Type:	Airspeed Oxford Mk I
Owner/operator:	Metropolitan CS RAF
Registration:	L4635
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Newmarket, Newmarket Racecourse, Newmarket, Suffolk. -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Hendon, Middlesex
Destination airport:	RAF Newmarket, Suffolk

Narrative:
Airspeed AS.10 Oxford Mk.I L4635 of the Metropolitan Comms Squadron, RAF was written off (destroyed) 15 August 1944 when it crashed on approach to RAF Newmarket, Suffolk: On final approach to RAF Newmarket, an engine caught fire. The pilot lost control of the aircraft and it crashed in flames, short of the runway. The aircraft was destroyed by impact forces and post crash fire and the sole occupant was killed.

Crew of Oxford L4635:

Group Captain Anthony Oliver Molesworth - killed

Cause of crash: Engine fire.

The RAF station known as "RAF Newmarket" was actually a grass airstrip on Newmarket's Rowley Mile Racecourse. This air strip is still used by light aircraft today

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-N9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain)
2. [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.baaa-acro.com/1944/archives/crash-of-an-airspeed-as-10-oxford-in-newmarket-afb-2/]
3. http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?16936-440815-Unaccounted-Airmen-15-8-1944
4. http://www.thepeerage.com/p51385.htm
5. https://www.ancientfaces.com/person/anthony-oliver-molesworth/164567869
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Newmarket

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
20-Mar-2008 16:25	JINX	Added
31-Jul-2017 21:17	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
19-Feb-2018 08:16	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location]
02-Nov-2019 18:43	Anon.	Updated [Operator, Operator]