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Date: | Tuesday 15 September 1953 |
Time: | day |
Type: | North American AT-16 Harvard T.2B |
Owner/operator: | 22 FTS RAF |
Registration: | KF197 |
MSN: | 14A-1917 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Syerston, Nottinghamshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Syerston, Nottinghamshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Syerston, Nottinghamshire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:North American Harvard T.2B KF197 [MSN 14A-1917]. Direct purchase, so no former USAAF Serial. First recorded in RAF service with 9 (P) AFU, RAF Errol, Perthshire, December 1944. To 19 FTS RAF Cranwell, Sleaford, Lincolnshire May 1945 coded "E-F". To 6 SFTS RAF Little Rissington, Gloucestershire, January 1946. To 5 FTS, RAF Tern Hill, Shropshire, May 1947. To 22 FTS, RAF Syerston, Nottinghamshire April 1949 coded sucessively "FCJ-P" later "FCJ-I" and finally "R-W"
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 15 September 1953 when undercarriage collapsed on landing at RAF Syerston, Nottinghamshire. Although the aircraft was deemed "damaged beyond repair", the two crew (Instructor Pilot and Pupil Pilot Under Instruction) were apparently uninjured.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.150 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 Colin Cummings p 411
3. The Harvard File (John F Hamlin, Air Britain, 1988 p.115)
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
14-May-2021 22:51 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
15-May-2021 19:54 |
MiG15 |
Updated [Operator, Location, Operator] |
15-May-2021 23:06 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |