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Date: | Thursday 23 August 1956 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Gloster Meteor F Mk 8 |
Owner/operator: | 63 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | WH374 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 WH374: Notified as awaiting collection 12/2/52, delivered to the RAF 21/2/1952. Sole operational service career was with 63 Squadron at RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire. For a period in 1953, WH374 wore a distinctive black-and-yellow chequerboard pattern on the fin and rudder (see links #6 & #7). Later removed and replaced by single code letter "J"
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 23/8/56: Belly landed in error at Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire. Pilot forgot to lower undercarriage on approach. Burnt out (destroyed by fire) after the ventral tank exploded and leaking fuel caught fire.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.182 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 59)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.208
4. 63 Squadron ORB (Operational Records Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for period 1/1/56 to 31/5/38: File AIR 27/2791/1 at
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8430645 5.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm 6.
http://www.cbrnp.com/profiles/quarter3/meteors.htm 7.
https://flyawaysimulation.com/downloads/files/23459/fsx-meteor-f8-wh374/ 8.
https://glostermeteorprofiles.wordpress.com/2018/06/15/gloster-meteor-f-8/ 9.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WH Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
12-Jun-2008 07:44 |
JINX |
Added |
12-May-2015 17:45 |
BlB |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Destination airport] |
24-Jun-2020 22:11 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
24-Jun-2020 22:11 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source] |
24-Jun-2020 22:13 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source] |