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Date: | Thursday 31 July 1952 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Airspeed Oxford Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 14 AFTS RAF |
Registration: | EB746 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 2.5 miles SE of RAF Holme on Spalding-Moor, East Yorkshire -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, East Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, East Yorkshire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Airspeed Oxford Mk.1 EB746, 14 AFTS (Advanced Flying Training School), RAF: Delivered to 14 AFTS 9-4-52. Written off (damaged beyond repair) 31-7-1952: The pilot, the sole person on board, was completing a local training sortie at night at RAF Holme-on-Spalding-Moor. On final approach, while making a steep turn to port at low height, the pilot lost control of the airplane that crashed in a field two-and-a-half miles south east of the airfield. The pilot was killed.
Crew of Oxford EB746
Acting Pilot Officer (2527575) David Walter NODDER (pilot) RAF - killed on duty 31-7-1952, buried in the family plot at Nab Wood Cemetery, Shipley, Bradford, West Yorkshire (see link #7)
The pilot had been promoted to the rank of Acting Pilot Officer with effect from 17-1-52 (see link #8)
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.132 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. The Oxford, Consul & Envoy File (John F Hamlin, Air Britain, 2001 p.140)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.274
4. Royal Air Force Aircraft EA100-EZ999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1988 page 8)
5. 14 AFTS ORB (Operational Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/3/1952 to 30/4/1953: National Archvies (PRO Kew) file AIR 29/2157/4 at
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7162871 6.
https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-airspeed-as10-oxford-t2-raf-holme-spalding-moor-1-killed 7.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/52514 8.
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/39493/supplement/1536/data.pdf Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
27-Sep-2008 01:00 |
ASN archive |
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28-Jan-2014 22:35 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Phase, Nature, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
16-Mar-2017 00:15 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
16-Mar-2017 00:15 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Source] |
18-Oct-2018 14:50 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
11-Mar-2021 23:05 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source] |
18-Mar-2021 13:16 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
18-Mar-2021 13:17 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport] |
18-Mar-2021 13:37 |
Werich26 |
Updated [Operator, Nature, Narrative, Operator] |
18-Mar-2021 21:33 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Phase, Narrative] |
19-Mar-2021 21:50 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |