Date:	Tuesday 18 August 1953
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor F Mk 8
Owner/operator:	56 (Punjab) Sqn RAF
Registration:	WE951
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Waterbeach. Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
WE951: First issued to 56 Sqn, RAF Waterbeach 30.3.51 coded J later V. sustained minor (Cat 2(R)) damage 25.7.52; Repaired On Site at Waterbeach, and returned to 56 Sqn 2.10.52 re-coded O.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) when overshot during an abandoned take-off and went through a hedge, at RAF Waterbeach, 18.8.53. Pilot, Pilot Officer S.A.Sumner (Service Number 2528430) survived OK. Aircraft deemed "beyond economic repair" and struck off charge as Cat 5(S).

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.148 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.404
4. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WE
5. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/39925/supplement/4122/data.pdf

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
05-Jun-2008 22:07	JINX	Added
15-Jan-2012 15:00	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source]
28-May-2017 23:02	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
28-May-2017 23:02	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]
24-Oct-2017 19:27	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]
10-May-2021 15:43	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Source]