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Date: | Tuesday 20 May 1952 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Gloster Meteor F Mk 4 |
Owner/operator: | 203 AFS RAF |
Registration: | VW274 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Driffield, East Yorkshire, England -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Driffield, East Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Driffield, East Yorkshire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor F4, VW274, 203 AFS (Advanced Flying School) RAF: delivered 19/1/1949. Written off 20/5/1952 when crashed at RAF Driffield, East Yorkshire. The aircraft made a wheels up belly landing at night at Driffield, but the pilot was apparently uninjured.
Crew of Meteor VW274:
Pilot Officer J H Gisbourne, RAF (pilot) - survived uninjured
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.128 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.249
4. 203 AFS ORB (Operations Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/1/1951 to 31/5/1954: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 29/2145/1 at
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7162858 5. VW274 with 504 (County of Nottingham) Squadron, RAF, March 1950: RAF in Camera 1950s p.20 By Keith Wilson
6.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VW Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
08-Mar-2021 19:11 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
08-Mar-2021 20:19 |
Leliczek |
Updated [Operator, Location, Operator] |