Date:	Wednesday 30 January 1946
Time:	night
Type:	North American Harvard T.2B
Owner/operator:	7 SFTS RAF
Registration:	KF467
MSN:	14A-1334
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Skillington, 4 mi S of RAF Harlaxton, nr Grantham Lincolnshire England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:	RAF Harlaxton, Lincolnshire

Narrative:
North American Harvard T.IIB KF467 [MSN 14A-1334]. Direct purchase, no former USAAF serial. Delivered direct to the RAF, and first recorded in service February 1945 with 5 (P) AFU, RAF Tern hill, Shropshire. Transferred in April 1945 to 7 SFTS, RAF Peterborough, Westwood, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.

Crashed 30/01/1946 when struck ground at Skillington, South Kesteven, 4 miles south of Harlaxton near Grantham, Lincolnshire when pilot lost control landing in gusty and snowy conditions during night NAVEX. The French pilot (flying solo) was killed

Crew of Harvard FK467
Sergeant Jean Alexandre SAINT FELIX, (French Pilot) Armee De L'Air - killed in service 30-1-46

Born in BORDEAUX France on 26 MAY 1920 to Raymond Saint-Félix and Elizabeth Castets. Jean Saint-Félix passed away on 30 JAN 1946 in Lincolnshire England. As there is no record of him on the CWGC (Commonwealth War Graves Commission) website, it is presumed that he was returned to his family in France for burial.

Skillington is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west from the A1 Road, 6 miles (10 km) south from Grantham, and is within 3 miles (5 km) of the Leicestershire border.

1. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.27. ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. The Harvard File (John F Hamlin, Air Britain, 1998 p 125)
3. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p.49
4. http://www.bcar.org.uk/1945-49-incident-logs#1946
5. http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?21230-460130-Unaccounted-Airmen-30-01-1946&highlight=BROWN&p=124172#post124172
6. "RAF Write-offs 1946": Air Britain Aeromilitaria 1979 p.94: https://air-britain.com/pdfs/aeromilitaria/Aeromilitaria_1979.pdf
7. https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/jean-saint-f%C3%A9lix-24-vmg0f5
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skillington

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
29-Apr-2017 22:24	Dr.John Smith	Added
27-Nov-2018 19:38	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]
10-Nov-2019 21:49	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
12-Nov-2019 22:27	Anon.	Updated [Operator, Operator]
05-Jun-2021 22:11	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
06-Jun-2021 16:36	TB	Updated [Operator, Location, Narrative, Operator]
07-Jun-2021 00:12	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
19-Jul-2023 22:07	Nepa	Updated [[Narrative]]