Date:	Friday 7 September 1956
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB Mk 5
Owner/operator:	5 FTS RAF
Registration:	VV624
MSN:	EEP/42...
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	nr Haslingfield, 5 miles SW of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB.Mk.5 VV624: Delivered 25/2/1949. RAF Service career was with 6 Squadron, CGS (Central Gunnery School) RAF Leconfield coded "K" and 5 FTS RAF Oakington. While with the GCS, Vampire was briefly a "film star" when it appeared in the 1954 feature film "Conflict of Wings" (see links #4,#5 & #7). Some of the film was shot on location at RAF Leconfield.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 7/9/1956: According to the ORB (Operational Record Book for 5 FTS for this period: "Vampire VV624, 117 Course, Flying Officer Butterworth - after take-off for a formation sortie, the pilot experienced an engine flame-out. A successful forced landing was carried out without injury to the pilot. The aircraft sustained Category 5 damage and Flying Officer Butterworth was awarded a Green Endorsement"

Flying Officer Butterworth managed to belly land his aircraft in a field near Haslingfield, five miles south west of Cambridge. VV624 was Struck off Charge as Cat.5(c) the same day, and recovered to RAF Honington for spares and reducing to produce

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.182 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 91)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.211
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_of_Wings#Production
5. https://wings-on-film.fandom.com/wiki/VV624
6. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VV
7. https://impdb.org/index.php?title=Conflict_of_Wings#de_Havilland_DH100_Vampire_F.B.5
8. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH100%20prodn%20list.txt
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haslingfield

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
09-Jul-2020 19:55	Dr. John Smith	Added
09-Jul-2020 20:15	Allach	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator]