Date:	Monday 30 August 1954
Time:	day
Type:	North American Harvard T Mk 2B
Owner/operator:	3 FTS RAF
Registration:	FX379
MSN:	14A-1981
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Gold Hill, 4 miles north of Littleport, Cambridgeshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Feltwell, Thetford, Norfolk
Destination airport:	RAF Feltwell, Thetford, Norfolk
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
North American Harvard T.2B FX379: Ex-USAAF 43-34796. Known RAF service was with 16 SFTS (Coded "33")(August 1944 to October 1945), 2 FTS (October 1946 to 1947), CFS RAF Little Rissington (1947 to August 1948), RAF College Cranwell (coded "FAB-B")(August 1948 to December 1949) and lastly with 3 FTS RF Feltwell, Norfolk (coded "FBU-P" later "R-E")(from December 1949).

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 30/8/54: While on a sortie from RAF Feltwell, Thetford, Norfolk, the engine caught fire in flight. The pilot tried to make an emergency landing in a field at Gold Hill, four miles North of Littleport, Cambridgeshire, but the aircraft crash landed and was wrecked due to fire damage.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.162 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. The Harvard File (John F Hamlin, Air Britain, 1988)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.85
4. http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1943_2.html
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littleport

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

31 December 1954

KF280

1 FTS RAF

0

RAF Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Gloucestershire, England

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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
20-Apr-2020 19:18	Dr. John Smith	Added
20-Apr-2020 19:22	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
20-Apr-2020 19:32	INV	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Operator]