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Date: | Tuesday 4 December 1951 |
Time: | day |
Type: | North American Harvard T.2B |
Owner/operator: | 6 FTS RAF |
Registration: | FX402 |
MSN: | 14A-1705 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Tern Hill, Shropshire, England -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Tern Hill, Shropshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Tern Hill, Shropshire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:North American Harvard T.2B 43-34819 (MSN 14A-1705) Delivered to RAF as Harvard IIb FX402. No 17 Service Flying Training School, Wellingore, Lincolnshire March 1945 as "FCE-I". No 1 Flying Training School June 1947. Empire Test Pilots’ School (ETPS), Cranfield, Bedfordshire July 1947. To Aeroplane & Armament Experimental Establishment (A&AEE), Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, January 1949. To No 6 Flying Training School,Tern Hill, Shropshire November 1950
Crash landed at Ternhill, Shropshire 4 December 1951: The aircraft bounced several times on landing, and then yawed to port, with the wing tip striking the ground. The aircraft then cartwheeled, and finally came to rest upside-down on its back. Despite this, there are no reports of any injuries to the crew.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.122 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p 203
3. The Harvard File (John F Hamlin, Air Britain, 1988 p 109)
4.
http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1943_2.html Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
16-Feb-2021 23:01 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
16-Feb-2021 23:05 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
17-Feb-2021 09:10 |
Lelek |
Updated [Operator, Location, Operator] |