Date:	Friday 13 January 1956
Time:	day
Type:	Hawker Hunter F Mk I
Owner/operator:	229 OCU RAF
Registration:	WT679
MSN:	41H-665496
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Chivenor, Barnstaple, Devon -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Chivenor, Barnstaple, Devon (EGDC)
Destination airport:	RAF Chivenor, Devon (EGDC)
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Hawker Hunter F.Mk.1 WT679: First flown at Hawker Aircraft Ltd., Dunsfold, Surrey 28/9/54. Delivered to the RAF at 5 MU Kemble in October 1954. First issued for service 12/11/54 to 229 OCU RAF Chivenor, Barnstaple, Devon

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 13/1/56: Swung into an obstruction after an undercarriage leg collapsed (some sources say "sheared off") on landing at RAF Chivenor. No reported injuries to the pilot.

Not repaired, Struck Off Charge as Cat5(G/I) on 23/04/1957: The aircraft was allocated for use as a training aid (Ground Instructional Airframe) and was re-serialled as 7520M. Sent to Number 4 School of Technical Training, RAF St. Athan. However, new serial 7520M cancelled 26/04/1957, presumed aircraft scrapped instead.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.177 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 96)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.173
4. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm
5. http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html
6. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WT

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
10-Jan-2009 11:55	ASN archive	Added
18-Aug-2010 02:49	penguin832	Updated [Operator, Location, Country, Phase, Destination airport, Narrative]
03-Dec-2011 13:28	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
04-Dec-2018 09:19	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Nature, Destination airport, Operator]
08-Jun-2020 22:51	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
08-Jun-2020 22:52	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
09-Jun-2020 08:16	BlB	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Destination airport, Operator]