Date:	Thursday 20 June 1946
Time:	day
Type:	Supermarine Spitfire Vc
Owner/operator:	336 Sqn RHAF
Registration:	JK530
MSN:	CBAF.
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Sedes AB, Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia -   Greece
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Sedes AB, Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
JK530: Spitfire Vc, built at CBAF (Castle Bromwich Aircraft Factory) with Merlin M46 engine. To 6MU RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire 7-3-43. To 47MU RAF Sealand, Flintshire 15-3-43 for packing and crating for shipment overseas. Shipped on the SS 'Orient City' 13-4-43, arriving Casablanca, Morocco 25-4-43. To North West Africa 31-5-43. To USAAF 31-7-43. To 43 Squadron RAF in late 1943-early 1944. To 318 "City of Gdańsk" Polish Fighter-Reconnaissance Squadron (Polish: 318 Dywizjon Myśliwsko-Rozpoznawczy Gdański") in March 1944 in Italy.

To 336 Squadron RHAF 25-4-46. In May 1945, 336 squadron moved to Sedes airfield near Thessaloniki, where, on 31-7-45, the squadron was disbanded from the RAF and transferred to Greek control. Subsequently, 336 Squadron took part in the air operations of the Greek Civil War (1946–49)

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 20-6-46 when starboard tyre burst crash landed on take-off at Sedes AB, Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Grece. The pilot thought that the noise and vibration indicated an engine failure. He closed the throttle, and then opted to retract the undercarriage in order to facilitate an emergency stop. Unusually, there was no mention in the accident report of the Spitfire swinging off the runway, which is what usually happens following a tyre burst on takeoff.

Pilot - Pilot Officer Chrisochoou RHAF - slightly injured.

Sedes Airport is a military airport 15 km east of Thessaloniki, Greece, and 3 km northeast of Thessaloniki's Makedonia International Airport.

1. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.71. ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p.165
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft JA100-JZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
4. "RAF Write-offs 1946": Air Britain Aeromilitaria 1979 p.100: https://air-britain.com/pdfs/aeromilitaria/Aeromilitaria_1979.pdf
5. https://aviationarchaeology.gr/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Supermarine-Spitfire-losses-in-Greece-1942-1953.pdf
6. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p051.html
7. https://allspitfirepilots.org/aircraft/JK530
8. https://www.avialogs.com/spitfire-and-seafire-registry/item/100647-jk530
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._43_Squadron_RAF#Second_World_War
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._318_Polish_Fighter-Reconnaissance_Squadron#Operations_in_Italy
11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/336th_Bomber_Squadron#Post-war_history
12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedes_Air_Base

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
22-Jun-2023 19:16	Dr. John Smith	Added
23-Jun-2023 17:42	Nepa	Updated
15-Sep-2023 16:29	Dr. John Smith	Updated