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Date: | Tuesday 19 April 1949 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Gloster Meteor F.4 |
Owner/operator: | FC CS RAF |
Registration: | RA452 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Windmill Hill Camp, Ludgershall, Hampshire, England -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Bovingdon, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor RA452: Delivered to 39 MU RAF Colerne, Chippenham, Wiltshire 25.9.47. To FCCS (Fighter Command Communications Squadron) RAF Bovingdon, Hertfordshire 28.9.48.
Written off (destroyed) 19.4.49 when ran out of fuel and hit huts in forced landing, Windmill Hill Camp, Ludgershall, Hampshire; Pilot Lieutenant Col R.A. Orr USAF slightly injured
Aircraft not repaired; declared as a FACE (Flying Accident Cat. E) and Struck Off Charge 3.5.49 as Cat. E (scrap)
Ludgershall is a town and civil parish 16 miles (26 km) north east of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. It is on the A342 road between Devizes and Andover. The parish includes Faberstown which is contiguous with Ludgershall, and the hamlet of Biddesden which is 2 miles (3.2 km) to the east on the border with Hampshire. Note that, although the postal address for Ludgersall is in Wiltshire, most published sources give the crash location as 'over the border' in Hampshire
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd, ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p.507
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
4.
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/aeromilitaria/Aeromilitaria_2009.pdf p.127
5.
https://www.hampshireairfields.co.uk/hancrash.html 6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Royal_Air_Force_Communication_units 7.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Bovingdon#Postwar_uses Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
30-Mar-2023 18:23 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
07-May-2023 22:03 |
Nepa |
Updated |