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Date: | Tuesday 19 April 1955 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Gloster Meteor F Mk 8 |
Owner/operator: | 56 (Punjab) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | WK726 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Eye, 5 miles E of Peterborough, Lincolnshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 WH378: Notified as awaiting collection 5/6/52, delivered to the RAF on 12/6/52. RAF service career was with 56 Squadron RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire only
Written off (destroyed) 19/4/55: Collided with Meteor F.Mk.8 WH378 during formation change and abandoned near Eye, five miles east of Peterborough. Pilot: Squadron Leader G J Storey AFC (aged 31, Service Number 155051, and Commanding Officer of 56 Squadron from 26/10/53 to 19/12/55) ejected safely from Meteor WK726
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.170 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985 p.70)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.129
4. 56 Squadron RAF ORB (Operations Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/1/51 to 31/12/55: File AIR 27/2620/1 at
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8424700 5.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WK 6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye,_Cambridgeshire 7.
http://www.56sqnfirebirds.org.uk/officerscommanding.htm Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
19-Jun-2008 08:46 |
JINX |
Added |
15-Jan-2012 14:55 |
Nepa |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Phase, Source] |
11-May-2020 21:03 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |