Date:	Sunday 23 April 1950
Time:	day
Type:	Supermarine Spitfire F Mk 22
Owner/operator:	502 (Ulster) Sqn RAF
Registration:	PK483
MSN:	CBAF.
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Aldergrove, Belfast, Northern Ireland (BFS/EGAA)
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
PK483: Spitfire F.22. Delivered to the RAF at 39 MU 31-8-45. Stored until transferred to Vickers-Armstrongs at Keevil, Wiltshire 16-1-47 for modifications and refurbishment. Then issued to 502 (Ulster) Squadron 30-8-48 at RAF Aldergrove, Belfast.

Written off (destroyed) when dived into hill out of cloud at Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland 23-4-50. Pilot killed

Crew of Spitfire PK473:
Pilot Officer Ronald GANT RAF (pilot, Service Number 2681015, aged 27) - killed on active service 23/4/1950

The report crash location of Banbridge is a town in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies on the River Bann and the A1 road and is named after a bridge built over the River Bann in 1712. It is situated in the civil parish of Seapatrick and the historic barony of Iveagh Upper, Upper Half, at approximate coordinates 54.348953°N 6.269975°W

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.102 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.29
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p085.html
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banbridge
6. https://www.rauxaf.net/page151.html .

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
07-Sep-2013 03:38	JINX	Added
25-Dec-2014 16:15	DG333	Updated [Operator]
16-Oct-2018 13:51	JINX	Updated [Operator]
09-Nov-2018 17:42	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]
05-Mar-2020 20:32	Iwosh	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
21-Dec-2020 22:54	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
22-Dec-2020 18:12	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]