Date:	Saturday 23 June 1956
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB Mk 5
Owner/operator:	7 FTS RAF
Registration:	WA285
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Holyhead Harbour, west of Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, Wales -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Valley, Anglesey, Wales (VLY/EGOV)
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB.Mk 5 WA285: Delivered 7/12/50. RAF Service career 28 Squadron, CGS (Central Gunnery School) RAF Leconfield, and 7 FTS RAF Valley. Vampire WA285 had a brief "moment of stardom" when it appeared in the 1954 feature film "Conflict of Wings" (when it was with the GCS, coded "K")

Written off (destroyed) 23/6/56: Crashed into Holyhead Harbour, west of Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, North Wales (at Grid Reference SH2593286871) after the pilot ejected following engine failure.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.180 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 8)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.200
4. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm
5. https://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/515671/details/de-havilland-vampire-fb5-wa285
6. http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html
7. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH100%20prodn%20list.txt
8. https://impdb.org/index.php?title=Conflict_of_Wings#de_Havilland_DH100_Vampire_F.B.5
9. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WA
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfaethlu

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
28-May-2008 15:13	JINX	Added
08-Jun-2008 14:50	JINX	Updated
18-May-2015 18:03	MiG21	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
10-Jan-2020 22:02	stehlik49	Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Nature, Operator]
21-Jun-2020 23:32	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
22-Jun-2020 10:30	MIG21	Updated [Operator, Operator]