Date:	Sunday 5 October 1947
Time:
Type:	Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk XVI
Owner/operator:	501 (County of Gloucester) Sqn RAF
Registration:	SL571
MSN:	CBAF IX.4686
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Middle Wallop, Hampshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Filton, Gloucestershire
Destination airport:	RAF Middle Wallop, Hampshire

Narrative:
SL571: Spitfire LF. XVI, MSN CBAF IX.4686, Built at CBAF (Castle Bromwich Aircraft Factory) with Merlin M266 engine. Delivered to 29MU RAF High Ercall, Shropshire 27-7-45. Issued to BCIS (Bomber Command Instructors School) RAF Finningley, Doncaster, South Yorkshire 3-7-46. The Bomber Command Instructors School had been established at Finningley in December 1944 and this organisation, with a variety of bomber types, saw out the remaining months of the war at this station and did not depart until the spring of 1947. Transferred to 501 (County of Gloucester) Squadron RAF Filton, Bristol, Gloucestershire coded "RAB-M" 28-4-47.

Written off when crash-landed Middle Wallop 5-10-47. The Spitfire landed at RAF Middle Wallop on a PSP (Pierced Steel Planking) runway. During the landing run, the Spitfire swung off the runway and the undercarriage collapsed, causing severe damage. The pilot was apparently unhurt.

Not repaired: re-cat E 23-10-47 and Struck Off Charge 5-12-47

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946-1949 by Colin Cummings p.341
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James H. Halley, Air Britain 1985 page 5)
4. ORB 501 Sqn RAF for the period 1-7-1946 to 31-3-1957: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR27/2495: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C2505133
5. "RAF Write offs 1947": Air Britain Aeromilitaria No.2 1978: https://air-britain.com/pdfs/aeromilitaria/Aeromilitaria_1978.pdf
6. http://www.spitfires.ukf.net/p098.htm
7. https://allspitfirepilots.org/aircraft/SL571
8. http://www.hampshireairfields.co.uk/hancrash.html
9. https://www.avialogs.com/spitfire-and-seafire-registry/item/90110-sl571
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._501_Squadron_RAF#Into_the_jet_age
11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Finningley#Second_World_War
12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAC_Middle_Wallop

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2014 19:20	Dr. John Smith	Added
27-Mar-2015 18:07	Jixon	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Destination airport]
02-Jun-2015 19:20	Cliford	Updated [Operator, Location, Destination airport]
08-May-2023 16:38	Dr. John Smith	Updated [[Operator, Location, Destination airport]]
09-May-2023 21:27	Nepa	Updated [[[Operator, Location, Destination airport]]]
28-Aug-2023 05:54	Dr. John Smith	Updated [[[[Operator, Location, Destination airport]]]]