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Date: | Tuesday 26 April 1955 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Gloster Meteor F Mk 4 |
Owner/operator: | 8 FTS RAF |
Registration: | VT328 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Driffield, East Yorkshire, England -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Driffield, East Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Driffield, East Yorkshire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor F.Mk.4 VT328: Delivered 8/11/48. RAF Service career was with 263 Squadron, 611 (West Lancashire) Squadron, 206 AFS (Advanced Flying School), 203 AFS and 8 FTS RAF Driffield
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 26/4/55: Undercarriage collapsed after the aircraft over-ran the runway on landing at RAF Driffield, East Yorkshire. No reports 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.170 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985 p.86)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.130
4.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VT 5.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205085769 6.
https://www.fs2000.org/2014/01/20/fsx-gloster-meteor-f4-vt328/ 7.
https://www.key.aero/article/station-history-raf-wattisham Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
12-May-2020 20:17 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
12-May-2020 21:55 |
Boile A. |
Updated [Operator, Location, Operator] |