Date:	Wednesday 13 November 1957
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10
Owner/operator:	Coltishall SF RAF
Registration:	WG490
MSN:	C1/0540
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Taxi
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Coltishall, Norfolk (EGYC)
Destination airport:	RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10 WG490: Delivered 03/01/1952. Operational service career was with 5 BFTS (Basic Flying training School), Durham UAS (University Air Squadron), 64 Group Communications Flight, RAF Flying College and RAF Coltishall Station Flight

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 13/11/1957: Collided with a starter trolley at RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire while taxiing. Deemed to be damaged beyond repair, and struck off charge as Cat.5(scrap).

However, not scrapped. Instead, it was sold off, and rebuilt as G-APNC. Civil registered as such 16/05/1958 to Airways Aero Association, London W.1.(C of R R.6730/1). Re-sold on 20/08/1958 to Germany as D-EGAP, and was written off as that registration on 19/05/1959 when it crashed at Bremen, Germany

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.194 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 90)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.210
4. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1957.htm
5. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-APNC.pdf
6. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WG
7. Crash at D-EGAP: https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/170287

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

19 May 1959

D-EGAP

Deutsche Lufthansa Verkehrsfliegerschule

Bremen

w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
10-Nov-2011 11:34	Dr. John Smith	Added
05-Apr-2013 08:14	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location, Narrative]
03-Dec-2018 17:57	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]
05-Nov-2019 10:05	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator]
12-Aug-2020 17:38	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
28-Dec-2020 15:29	Jixon	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator]