Date:	Monday 26 February 1951
Time:	day
Type:	North American AT-16 Harvard T.2B
Owner/operator:	CFS RAF
Registration:	KF496
MSN:	14A-2297
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Gloucestershire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Little Rissington, Gloucestershire
Destination airport:	RAF Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
North American AT-16 Harvard T.2B KF496: First recorded in RAF service in January 1945 with 11 (P) AFU, RAF Calveley, Cheshire. To 20 FTS, RAF Church Lawford as "FAK-K" from May 1945. To 20 SFTS (name change) in September 1946. To CFS Little Rissington, Gloucestershire from March 1947. To 7 SFTS RAF Kirton-in-Lindsay from June 1947 as "FBD-R". Became 7 FTS from January 1948 and moved to RAF Cottesmore from April 1948 as "FBA-T". Returned to CFS Little Rissington in January 1951

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 26/2/1951 - tipped up on landing at RAF Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire and caught fire. No reported casualties or injuries to the crew.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.111 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. The Harvard File (John F Hamlin, Air Britain, 1988 p.127)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.119
4. http://www.aviationarchaeology.org.uk/marg/crashes1950-88.htm
5. https://www.aviation-links.co.uk/Gloucestershire%20Aircraft%20Accidents.pdf

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
12-Jan-2021 20:49	Dr. John Smith	Added
12-Jan-2021 21:09	King T.	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator]
13-Jan-2021 14:44	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
13-Jan-2021 14:50	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
13-Jan-2021 20:12	King T.	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator]