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Date: | Wednesday 18 June 1969 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Hunting Percival Pembroke C1 |
Owner/operator: | El Adem SF RAF |
Registration: | WV706 |
MSN: | P66/009 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Akrotiri -
Cyprus
|
Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Hunting Pembroke C.Mk.1 WV706: Delivered 22/12/1953. RAF Service career was as follows: 205 Group Communications Flight, RAF Abu Sueir Station Flight, Levant Communications Flight, 1417 Flight, 152 Squadron, A&AEE Handling Sqn, RAF El Adem Station Flight.
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 18/6/1969. Struck Off Charge as Cat.5(G/I) to ground instructional airframe as 8064M - Dec 1969. To Akrotiri fire dump 9/1971, for fire fighting/crash rescue training, since perished.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.221 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 103)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.455
4.
http://www.edendale.co.uk/GO/LTN.2.10.html 5.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WV 6.
http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?17682-Percival-Pembroke-WV706-and-WV750 Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
29-Jul-2014 19:24 |
gerard57 |
Added |
29-Jul-2014 19:24 |
harro |
Updated [Aircraft type, Damage] |
23-Feb-2017 20:04 |
TB |
Updated [Date, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
29-Oct-2019 13:37 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Location] |
21-Jul-2020 01:36 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Country, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
21-Jul-2020 01:37 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source] |
28-Dec-2020 15:31 |
Jixon |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |