Date:	Saturday 1 May 1954
Time:	day
Type:	Percival Provost T Mk I
Owner/operator:	22 FTS RAF
Registration:	WV532
MSN:	PAC/56/78
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Syerston, Nottinghamshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Taxi
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Syerston, Nottinghamshire
Destination airport:	RAF Syerston, Nottinghamshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Percival Provost T.Mk.1 WV532: Built by Percival at Luton, Bedfordshire as first of a batch of 388 Provosts built. Serials batch WV532 to WV580. Delivered 13/1/54. This Provost had a very short service life with 22 FTS, RAF only.

Written off (damaged beyond economical repair) 1/5/54 when struck by Provost T.1 WV540 whilst taxiing after landing at RAF Syerston Nottinghamshire.

(The other Provost involved - WV540 - survived this incident, was repaired and returned to service. WV540 was struck off charge 14/11/68, was civil registered as G-AWTG, and ended up with the Rhodesian Air Force as 'R6037' in 1971)

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.158 ISBN 0-85130-290-4
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 101)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.55
4. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WV

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
22-Apr-2012 12:22	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
17-Dec-2018 07:18	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Nature, Destination airport, Narrative, Operator]
08-Apr-2020 23:19	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
09-Apr-2020 09:49	Iwosh	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Operator]