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Date: | Friday 21 August 1953 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Gloster Meteor T Mk 7 |
Owner/operator: | 187 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | WF841 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Aston Down, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Aston Down, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire |
Destination airport: | RAF Aston Down, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor T.Mk.7 WF841, 187 Squadron, RAF: delivered 26/6/1951. Written off (damaged beyond repair) 21/8/1953 when Lost wheel on landing at RAF Aston Down, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire; aircraft overshot and bellylanded.
Meteor WF851 was Struck Off Charge as Cat.5(s) on 31/7/1958 at No.20 MU RAF Aston Down and sold to R J Coley & Son, Ascot, Berkshire, for reduction to components and scrap.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.149 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
3. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p 404
4.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WF 5.
https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/20144 6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._187_Squadron_RAF#Postwar_period 7.
https://www.aviation-links.co.uk/Gloucestershire%20Aircraft%20Accidents.pdf 8.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Down#Post_Second_World_War Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
07-Jun-2008 04:02 |
JINX |
Added |
12-May-2015 16:51 |
BlB |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Destination airport] |
11-May-2021 17:05 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
11-May-2021 17:06 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |