Date:	Friday 9 January 1953
Time:	night
Type:	Percival Proctor Mk V
Owner/operator:	Air Attache, Rome
Registration:	VN895
MSN:	AE.92
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Abingdon, Oxfordshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:
Destination airport:	RAF Abingdon, Oxfordshire (EGUD)
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Percival Proctor Mk.V VN895, Air Attache Rome: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 10/1/53 when brakes failed and aircraft ground looped during landing at night at RAF Abingdon, Oxfordshire. No fatalities reported.

Aircraft had dual civil/military identities; after the above accident, the damaged airframe was repaired and sold off as G-ANAT (C of R R.4076/1) on 18/7/53. As G-ANAT, it had three owners until it was Damaged beyond repair at Elmdon Airport, Birmingham, 20/4/58. Regsitration G-ANAT cancelled 21/10/58 as "Withdrawn".

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.139 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p 327
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 73)
4. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VN
5. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ANAT.pdf

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
14-Nov-2010 11:55	ASN archive	Added
24-Dec-2013 13:01	TB	Updated [Date, Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Source, Narrative]
08-Jan-2020 02:01	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
09-Apr-2021 18:56	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]