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Date: | Tuesday 18 September 1956 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Hawker Hunter F Mk 1 |
Owner/operator: | 229 OCU RAF |
Registration: | WW606 |
MSN: | 41H-680276 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
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, Barnstaple, Devon (EGDC) |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Hawker Hunter F.Mk.1 WW606: Delivered to the RAF at 5 MU Kemble 7/10/54. First issued for service to 222 Squadron as "W" on 10/2/55. Transferred to 229 OCU RAF Chivenor on 15/11/55 and recoded "RS-H".
Written off (damaged beyond economic repair) 18/6/56: Swung off the runway after an undercarriage leg broke on landing at RAF Chivenor, Barnstaple, Devon and struck a vehicle. Struck off Charge as Cat.5(G/I) and allocated to ground instruction as 7541M.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.183 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 105)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.212
4.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm 5.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WW
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
11 October 1955 |
WW607 |
229 OCU RAF |
0 |
2 miles West of RAF Chivenor, Barnstaple, Devon |
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w/o |
14 June 1966 |
E-417 |
Flyvevåbnet |
0 |
12 km NW of Ribe |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
10-Jan-2009 11:55 |
ASN archive |
Added |
06-Dec-2011 23:17 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
04-Dec-2018 09:23 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Destination airport, Operator] |
11-Jul-2020 19:27 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
11-Jul-2020 19:52 |
Yarbi |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Operator] |