Date:	Thursday 4 February 1954
Time:	day
Type:	Hawker Sea Fury T Mk 20
Owner/operator:	CFS RAF
Registration:	WE821
MSN:	ES.8506
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Stow-on-The-Wold, Gloucestershire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Little Rissington, Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Hawker Sea Fury T.Mk.20 WE821: delivered 25/10/1950, saw RAF service with the Central Flying School (CFS), RAF at RAF Little Rissington, Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Written off (destroyed) 4/2/54 when the aircraft became uncontrollable in a spin, and failed to recover from the spin. Of the two crew, one bailed out successfully, the other did not, and was killed

Crew of Sea Fury WE821
Flight Lt Jack Allen Shelley (pilot, aged 32) - killed
Flight Lt J H Verral (aged 32) - bailed out, survived

WE821 was Struck off Charge on 8/3/54 as Cat.5(scrap)

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.155 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 35)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.32
4. RAF Little Rissington: The Central Flying School 1946-76 By R. Deacon, A. Pollock, M. Thomas, R. Bagshaw p.313
5. National Archives (PRO Kew) File ADM 1/25321: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4846433
6. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WE
7. https://www.aviation-links.co.uk/Gloucestershire%20Aircraft%20Accidents.pdf

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
05-Apr-2020 00:04	Dr. John Smith	Added
05-Apr-2020 09:18	Investig	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Operator]
24-Apr-2020 00:10	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]