Date:	Thursday 29 October 1953
Time:
Type:	Auster T Mk 7
Owner/operator:	LAS RAF
Registration:	WE550
MSN:	3730
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Kent's Oak, 4.5 miles NNW of Romsey, Hampshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Middle Wallop, Hampshire (EGVP)
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Auster T.Mk 7, WE550, LAS (Light Aircraft School) RAF: Delivered 4/7/1950. RAF Service was with 227 OCU, AOP School, 663 (AOP) Squadron, RAF and the LAS (Light Aircraft School) at Middle Wallop

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 19/10/1953 when flew into power lines near Kent's Oak, four-and-a-half miles North North-West of Romsey, Hampshire. The pilot was Lieutenant K A Kerrigan, RAF: For him, it was another bout of bad luck...he had only recently returned to service after recovering from a shoulder injury when on board Auster AOP.5 TJ324. (On 23/7/1953 Auster TJ324 had been damaged at RAF Middle Wallop when it was "chewed up" by the rotating propeller blade of Boulton Paul Balliol WG180 (which see)).

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.152 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p 429
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985)
4. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WE
5. https://www.airhistory.net/photo/35346/WE550
6. https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1196075
7. http://austerhg.org/prod_list/pages.php?page=4269
8. http://www.hampshireairfields.co.uk/hancrash.html .

Auster T.7 WE550 of 663 (AOP) Squadron RAF at Ringway Airport Manchester on 1 May 1952:

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-May-2008 11:10	ASN archive	Added
04-Jun-2008 18:27	JINX	Updated
03-Feb-2020 10:54	stehlik49	Updated [Operator, Operator]
03-Feb-2020 10:54	stehlik49	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
20-May-2021 00:02	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative]
20-May-2021 22:30	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Location, Source, Embed code, Narrative]
22-May-2021 16:20	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]
20-May-2023 20:56	Nepa	Updated [[Source, Narrative]]