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Date: | Saturday 20 December 1952 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10 |
Owner/operator: | 19 RFS RAF |
Registration: | WD320 |
MSN: | C1/0257 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Great Altcar, near Formby, Lancashire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | Barton Airfield, Liverpool Road, Eccles, Manchester |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10 WD320, 19 RFS (Reserve Flying School) RAF; delivered 28/1/1951. Written off 20/12/1953, Engine failed, overturned in forced landing at Great Altcar, near Formby, Lancashire; to No.60 MU Rufforth 2/1/1953 for scrap. No reported injuries to the crew.
Great Altcar is a village and civil parish in West Lancashire, England, close to Formby on the West Lancashire Coastal Plain.
Sources:
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. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.322
4.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WD 5.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Altcar Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
02-Jun-2008 04:46 |
JINX |
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01-Feb-2013 15:09 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator] |
27-Mar-2021 18:58 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
05-Apr-2021 21:47 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Total occupants, Location, Source, Narrative] |
06-Apr-2021 16:50 |
Leliczek |
Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Operator] |
26-Jul-2021 21:25 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Category] |
27-Jul-2021 08:48 |
Dandy |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |