Date:	Saturday 20 December 1952
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10
Owner/operator:	19 RFS RAF
Registration:	WD320
MSN:	C1/0257
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Great Altcar, near Formby, Lancashire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	Barton Airfield, Liverpool Road, Eccles, Manchester
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10 WD320, 19 RFS (Reserve Flying School) RAF; delivered 28/1/1951. Written off 20/12/1953, Engine failed, overturned in forced landing at Great Altcar, near Formby, Lancashire; to No.60 MU Rufforth 2/1/1953 for scrap. No reported injuries to the crew.

Great Altcar is a village and civil parish in West Lancashire, England, close to Formby on the West Lancashire Coastal Plain.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.139 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.322
4. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WD
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Altcar

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
02-Jun-2008 04:46	JINX	Added
01-Feb-2013 15:09	Nepa	Updated [Operator]
27-Mar-2021 18:58	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
05-Apr-2021 21:47	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Total occupants, Location, Source, Narrative]
06-Apr-2021 16:50	Leliczek	Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Operator]
26-Jul-2021 21:25	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Category]
27-Jul-2021 08:48	Dandy	Updated [Operator, Operator]