ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 246267
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| Date: | Thursday 13 July 1950 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Supermarine Spitfire FR Mk XVIII |
| Owner/operator: | Westland Aircraft Ltd |
| Registration: | TP279 |
| MSN: | 6S-676371 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Yeovil Aerodrome, Yeovil, Somerset, England -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Test |
| Departure airport: | Yeovil Aerodrome, Somerset (EGHG) |
| Yeovil Aerodrome, Somerset (EGHG) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
TP279: Spitfire FR.XVIII (built by Vickers Armstrong Aldermaston, with Merlin G65 engine). Delivered to VAHPA (Vickers Armstrong High Post Airfield) 30-6-45 for use as a trials aircraft. Test flown 5-7-45 with large chord rudder fitted with split trim tab installation. To A&AEE Boscombe Down 19-9-45 for camera and gun heating trials. From 30-11-45 further camera trials at Boscombe Down. Taken on charge by 38 MU RAF Llandow 1-5-46 and stored. Next to Westland Aircraft for modifications 14-2-49 and camera trials
Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed on test flight 13-7-50. Details lacking, but it believed that the accident happened at Westland Aircraft's Flight Test base at Yeovil Aerodrome, Yeovil, Somerset, and that the pilot was uninjured.
Sources:
1. Wings Over Somerset: Aircraft Crashes since the End of World War II By Peter Forrester
2. https://www.colettiscombataircraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/The-Secret-Years-RAF-Boscombe-Down-1939-45-Tim-Mason.pdf
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.68
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p113.html
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 26-Dec-2020 21:44 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 26-Dec-2020 21:48 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Cn, Narrative] |
| 20-Aug-2023 09:24 | Nepa | Updated [[Cn, Narrative]] |
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