Date:	Wednesday 22 January 1947
Time:	day
Type:	Miles M.33 Monitor TT Mk II
Owner/operator:	AFEE (Armed Forces Experimental Establishment)
Registration:	NP406
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Beaulieu, East Boldre, 2 miles west of Beaulieu, Hampshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Taxi
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Beaulieu, East Boldre, Hampshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Miles M.33 Monitor TT. Mk. II NP409 AFEE (Armed Forces Experimental Establishment): Written off (destroyed by fire) when fuel leak ignited whilst taxiing at RAF Beaulieu, East Boldre, 2 miles west of Beaulieu, Hampshire.

Peter Amos (Miles Aircraft - the Wartime Years - see link #1), quoting reports written by Wing Commander Derek Collier Webb, has more on this incident:

"On 22nd January 1947, while Flt Lt C Grannum was taxiing in after landing, a fuel leak from the port engine carburettor vent pipe was ignited by the exhaust efflux and the aircraft was engulfed in flames. Fortunately, the station fire and rescue services were quick off the mark and had the flames rapidly under control; the aircraft was written off, but the pilot remains healthy"

Miles Monitor NP406 was replaced by another example NP422.

1. Miles Aircraft - the Wartime Years: Peter Amos, Air Britain 2012 ISBN 10: 0851304303
2. Mondey, David (1982). The Hamlyn Guide to British Aircraft of World War II. Chancellor Press. p. 173. ISBN 1851526684.
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4. Thetford, Owen. British Naval Aircraft since 1912. London: Putnam, Fourth edition, 1978 ISBN 0-370-30021-1 pp. 256–257.
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6. Brown, Don L. (1970). Miles Aircraft since 1925 (1st ed.). London: Putnam & Company Ltd. pp. 207–211. ISBN 0-370-00127-3
7. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.42 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
8. Royal Air Force Aircraft NA100-NZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
9. Aeroplane Monthly May 1978: https://aviadejavu.ru/Site/Crafts/Craft28103.htm
10. https://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=19405.0
11. https://www.eastboldre.org/aeropostwar.html
12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Beaulieu#Postwar_military_use
13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_Forces_Experimental_Establishment#Beaulieu_(1947)

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