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Date: | Saturday 25 February 1956 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Avro Anson C Mk 12 |
Owner/operator: | 24 Gp CF RAF |
Registration: | PH662 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Spitalgate, Grantham, Lincolnshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Taxi |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Spitalgate, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Avro Anson C.Mk.XII PH662, 24 Group Communications Flight RAF. Written off (damaged beyond repair) 25/2/56 when Undercarriage leg collapsed while taxiing at RAF Spitalgate, Grantham, Lincolnshire. Both occupants escaped uninjured while the aircraft was considered as damaged beyond repair.
Not repaired, Struck off Charge as Cat.5(c) on 12/3/56
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.178 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.183
4. The Anson File (Ray Sturtivant, Air Britain, 1988 p.129)
5.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm 6.
https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/ground-accident-avro-652a-anson-xii-raf-spitalgate 7.
http://www.bcar.org.uk/1950s-incident-logs#1956 Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
03-Mar-2012 16:34 |
Dr. John Smith |
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30-Nov-2012 05:02 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Location, Source] |
04-Sep-2013 05:16 |
JINX |
Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
03-Jun-2015 15:17 |
Siczak |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport] |
16-Jan-2016 20:21 |
JIXN |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
12-Jun-2020 20:25 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
12-Jun-2020 21:01 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
13-Jun-2020 19:20 |
harry |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |