Date:	Monday 12 December 1955
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.115 Vampire T Mk 11
Owner/operator:	8 FTS RAF
Registration:	XE989
MSN:	15576
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:	RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
de Havilland DH.115 Vampire T.Mk.11 XE989: Delivered 14/7/55. Sole RAF career was with 8 FTS at RAF Swinderby

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 12/12/55: The aircraft made an emergency belly landing at RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire after an engine fire in flight. The pilot - Pilot Officer R.D. Knight - escaped uninjured, but the aircraft was extensively damaged.

Struck off charge as Cat.5(G/I) and allocated for Ground Instructional Use as 7296M at RAF Swinderby. Later scrapped

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.177 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft XA100-XZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 2001 p 26)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.169
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH115%20prodn%20list.txt
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=XE
6. https://ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh115.pdf
7. http://www.bcar.org.uk/1950s-incident-logs#1955
8. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1955.htm

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
06-Jun-2020 16:42	Dr. John Smith	Added
06-Jun-2020 18:37	Jixon	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Narrative, Operator]
11-Jun-2020 19:35	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]