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Date: | Friday 6 September 1957 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH.115 Vampire T Mk 11 |
Owner/operator: | 4 FTS RAF |
Registration: | XE880 |
MSN: | 15422 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Worksop, Nottinghamshire (EGYW) |
Destination airport: | RAF Worksop, Nottinghamshire (EGYW) |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:de Havilland DH.115 Vampire T.Mk 11 XE880: Built by DH Christchurch. Delivered 27/1/1955 to FRL (Flight Refuelling Ltd) at Tarrant Rushton for modifications. Sole operational service career was with 4 FTS RAF Worksop, Nottinghamshire as "74" from April 1956
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 6/9/1957: Veered off the runway on landing at RAF Worksop, Nottinghamshire after the starboard undercarriage collapsed. Not repaired, and struck off charge as Cat.5(c)
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.192 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft XA100-XZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 2001 p 25)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.262
4.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1957.htm 5. Air-to-Air photo of XE880:
http://rafworksop.btck.co.uk/Photographs1943-Present/4FTSAircraft 6.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=XE 7.
http://rafworksop.btck.co.uk/AircraftBasedatWorksop 8.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH115%20prodn%20list.txt 9.
http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html 10.
https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh115.pdf Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
11-Aug-2020 12:23 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
11-Aug-2020 12:59 |
Yarbi |
Updated [Operator, Location, Operator] |