Date:	Wednesday 5 August 1953
Time:	day
Type:	North American AT-16 Harvard T.2B
Owner/operator:	1 FTS RAF
Registration:	KF721
MSN:	14A-2422
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Ipsley, 2 miles SE of Redditch, Worcestershire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
North American AT-16 Harvard T.2B KF721 [MSN 14A-2422]. Direct purchase, so no former USAAF serial. First recorded in service with 1 FTS (Flying Training School), RAF Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire in January 1953.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 5/8/1953: hit tree while force landing near Ipsley, two miles south east of Redditch, Worcestershire.
Crew:
F/O (2497116) Ronald Liddiard (pilot) RAF - slightly injured and treated at Smallwood Hospital, Redditch.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.147 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 Colin Cummings p 398
3. The Harvard File (John F Hamlin, Air Britain, 1988 p 133)
4. http://www.aviationarchaeology.org.uk/marg/crashes1950-88.htm
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redditch
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Districts_of_Redditch#Ipsley
7. Pilots Obituary/Biography: https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/features/obituaries/11381644.ronald-liddiard/

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
07-May-2021 15:11	Dr. John Smith	Added
07-May-2021 15:12	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
07-May-2021 20:32	BlBe	Updated [Operator, Location, Narrative, Operator]