Date:	Sunday 3 October 1954
Time:	day
Type:	Auster AOP.6
Owner/operator:	1958 Flt/661 Sqn RAF
Registration:	TW527
MSN:	1907
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Ide Hill, 5 miles SW of Sevenoaks, Kent, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Kenley, Whyteleafe, Surrey
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Auster AOP.6 TW527, 1958 Flight/661 Squadron RAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 3/10/54 when Hit over power lines (HT wires) and crashed at Ide Hill, Kent during a message dropping sortie. No reports of any injuries to the pilot.

The crash location of Ide Hill is a village within the civil parish of Sundridge with Ide Hill, in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. It stands on one of the highest points of the sandstone ridge about five miles south-west of Sevenoaks, at approximate co ordinates 51.247°N, 0.129°E

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.164 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985 p.52)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.94
4. http://austerhg.org/prod_list/pages.php?page=1800
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ide_Hill
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._661_Squadron_RAF#Post-war

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-May-2008 11:10	ASN archive	Added
17-Apr-2012 21:17	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Source, Damage, Narrative]
15-Aug-2012 08:02	Nepa	Updated [Operator]
23-Apr-2020 22:16	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
24-Dec-2020 10:23	Jixon	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator]
24-Dec-2020 10:35	JEPA	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]