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Date: | Friday 6 July 1951 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10 |
Owner/operator: | Cambridge UAS RAF |
Registration: | WB602 |
MSN: | C1/0043 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 1.5 miles WSW of Acton Turville, Gloucestershire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | Acton Turville, Gloucestershire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10 WB602 Cambridge UAS (University Air Squadron), RAF: Delivered to the RAF on 29/3/1950. Written off 6/7/1951 when failed to recover and gain altitude, hit a low wall during overshooting practice, and damaged beyond repair in forced landing 1.5 miles west-south-west of Acton Turville, Gloucestershire.
Formally struck off charge 26/7/1951 as Cat.5(scrap)
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.115 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 Colin Cummings p 157
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
4.
www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WB 5.
https://www.aviation-links.co.uk/Gloucestershire%20Aircraft%20Accidents.pdf 6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acton_Turville Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
01-Jun-2008 15:54 |
JINX |
Added |
07-Jun-2008 22:02 |
JINX |
Updated |
15-Mar-2013 13:41 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
13-Feb-2020 07:34 |
Iwosh |
Updated [Operator, Nature, Operator] |
02-Feb-2021 19:24 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Source, Narrative] |