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Date: | Tuesday 29 January 1957 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB Mk 5 |
Owner/operator: | 7 FTS RAF |
Registration: | WG835 |
MSN: | V07.. |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Valley, Anglesey, Wales -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Valley, Anglesey, (VLY/EGOV) |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:De Havilland Vampire FB.Mk.5 WG835: Delivered 30/10/51. RAF Service career was with 5 Squadron, 8 FTS and 7 FTS.
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 29/1/1957: Lost power on take off from RAF Valley, Anglesey. The take off was abandoned, and the undercarriage was raised to stop. No record of any injuries to the pilot.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.187 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 46)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.232
4.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1957.htm 5.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH100%20prodn%20list.txt 6.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WG Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
08-Jun-2008 15:18 |
JINX |
Added |
18-May-2015 18:08 |
MiG21 |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Departure airport] |
28-Jul-2020 23:35 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
29-Jul-2020 09:35 |
Apen |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Operator] |