Date:	Thursday 15 September 1955
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor F Mk 8
Owner/operator:	245 (Northern Rhodesia) Sqn RAF
Registration:	WK820
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Stradishall, Suffolk, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Stradishall, Suffolk
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 WK820: Notified as awaiting 25/10/52, delivered to the RAF 8/11/52. RAF service career was with 245 Squadron only

Written off (destroyed) 15/9/55: Mushed into ground after failing to recover from a loop over RAF Stradishall, Suffolk.
Crew of WK820:
Flying Officer John Ward (pilot) RAF - killed

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.174 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 70)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.156
4. 245 Squadron RAF ORB (Operational Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/4/55 to 31/12/55: File AIR 27/2670/3 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8426884
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WK
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._245_Squadron_RAF#Postwar

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
19-Jun-2008 11:26	JINX	Added
18-Jan-2012 02:21	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Phase, Source]
29-May-2013 14:06	Nepa	Updated [Operator]
27-May-2020 16:50	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
28-May-2021 21:31	Anon.	Updated [Location, Narrative, Operator]