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Date: | Friday 18 January 1957 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Auster AOP.9 |
Owner/operator: | LAS RAF |
Registration: | WZ724 |
MSN: | B5/10/50 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
Location: | RAF Middle Wallop, Hampshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | AAC Middle Wallop, Hampshire (EGVP) |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Auster AOP.9 WZ724: Delivered to the RAF 10/11/1955. Operational service was with the LAS (Light Aircraft School), RAF Middle Wallop, Hampshire.
Substantially damaged 18/1/1957 in a flying accident, when crashed on takeoff, possibly at Middle Wallop, Hampshire. Struck off charge 22/5/1957 as Cat.5(gi): To ground instructional use 7432M at Middle Wallop. Later became a "gate guardian" on static display at Middle Wallop.
Sold off and civil registered as G-BXON on 01/12/1997. Sold to a new owner on 26/5/2016 and Restored to flying condition. Sadly, destroyed when crashed at Spanhoe, Harringworth, Northamptonshire on 18/6/2017, killing the pilot (see separate entry for full details)
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.184 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1983 page 110)
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://publicapps.caa.co.uk/modalapplication.aspx?catid=1&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=reg&fullregmark=BXON 6.
http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=196198 7.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WZ Media:
Auster AOP.9 WZ724 as the "gate guardian" at Middle Wallop in October 1989:
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
25-Dec-2012 13:18 |
Dr. John Smith |
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19-Mar-2015 10:14 |
TB |
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23-Jul-2017 16:00 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
23-Dec-2019 22:30 |
stehlik49 |
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21-Feb-2020 18:17 |
Xindel XL |
Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Operator] |
17-Jul-2020 22:13 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
15-Feb-2021 10:34 |
Xindel |
Updated [Operator, Location, Narrative, Operator] |