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Date: | Saturday 3 November 1951 |
Time: | |
Type: | de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB Mk 5 |
Owner/operator: | 605 (County of Warwick) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | WA364 |
MSN: | EEP/42... |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Honiley, Wroxall, Warwickshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Honiley, Wroxhall, Warwickshire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Vampire WA364: Written off when sank back and hit runway on take-off run at RAF Honiley. Impact damage to airframe caused the aircraft to lose fuel and it bellylanded. 03/11/1951
The crew:
P/O (3121072) Arthur Philpin BELCHER (pilot) RAFVR - escaped uninjured.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.121 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 Colin Cummings p 191
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain 1983)
4. 605 Squadron ORB (Operations Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/1/1951 to 31/12/1954: National Archives (PRO Kew) file AIR 27/2675 at
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C2505313 5.
http://www.aviationarchaeology.org.uk/marg/crashes1950-88.htm 6.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH100%20prodn%20list.txt 7.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Honiley#Royal_Air_Force_use 8.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._605_Squadron_RAF#After_the_war Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
28-May-2008 23:44 |
JINX |
Added |
10-Jan-2012 14:47 |
Nepa |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Source] |
20-Aug-2014 21:13 |
Jixon |
Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Departure airport, Narrative] |
09-Jan-2020 12:23 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
13-Feb-2021 17:06 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
13-Feb-2021 17:08 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
14-Feb-2021 00:11 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
16-Feb-2021 21:12 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Departure airport, Source] |
06-Jan-2022 11:12 |
Nepa |
Updated [Time, Narrative, Operator] |