Date:	Friday 18 November 1949
Time:	day
Type:	Auster AOP.6
Owner/operator:	West Malling SF RAF
Registration:	TW523
MSN:	1904
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Trimley Heath, near Felixstowe, Suffolk, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF West Malling, Maidstone, Kent
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Auster TW523 (RAF West Malling Station Flight): Written off (damaged beyond repair) 18/11/1949 when crashed in forced landing in fog at Trimley Heath, near Fexlistowe, Suffolk. The pilot made a forced landing in a field when he encountered thick fog, but the starboard wheel was caught in a rabbit hole, and the undercarriage was fractured. The pilot was G/C H N G Ramsbottom, the Commanding Officer of RAF West Malling.

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 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p.553
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
4. http://www.ukairfields.org.uk/trimley-heath.html
5. https://www.itraveluk.co.uk/maps/england/1949/suffolk/trimley-heath.html
6. https://mapcarta.com/17616600

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-May-2008 11:10	ASN archive	Added
25-Feb-2012 15:36	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative]
06-May-2013 14:16	Nepa	Updated [Operator]
27-Nov-2019 14:19	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]