ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 140134
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| Date: | 28-JUN-1967 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  BAC Jet Provost T3 |
| Owner/operator: | 2 FTS Royal Air Force (2 FTS RAF) |
| Registration: | XN597 |
| MSN: | PAC/W/12741 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Wymeswold airfield, Leicestershire, England. -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | RAF Syerston, Nottinghamshire |
| Wymeswold, Leicestershire | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Badly damaged when the nosewheel collapsed during a heavy landing at Wymeswold, Leicestershire. Later declared a write off at 60 MU RAF Leconfield and struck off charge as Cat.5(G/I) on 12/9/1967. Nose section allocated to 196 ATC Sqn, Walsall as 7984M on 17/10/1967, but never delivered
Nose section was re-allocated to 2263 ATC Sqn, Beverley, Yorks in 1968. In 1986, moved to Brencham. On 20/2/1987 sold for scrap to Park Aviation, Faygate. In January1990 sold to The Helicopter Centre, Stoke-on-Trent Moved on 12/10/1991 to the North East Aircraft Museum, Sunderland. Sold on in 12/1993 to the South Yorkshire Aviation Museum, Firbeck, and from there moved on in 9/1994 to Stamford, Lincolnshire. Next appeared in 9/1995 with 1940 ATC Sqn at Levenshulme, Greater Manchester. Acquired in 12/1996 by the South Yorkshire Aviation Museum, Firbeck. Thence in 10/1997 to the RAF Millom Museum Project, Millom, Cumbria
Update: Jet Provost T3 XN597 cockpit was sold by auction on 27/01/2011 from the now closed RAF Millom & Militaria Museum, Haverigg, Cumbria has joined the ever growing collection of aircraft at Neil Airey and Heather Grahams premises at Spark Bridge, Cumbria. But it only stayed there a short period as it was quickly resold to Retro Aviation who transported the cockpit to Blackpool Airport. This remained there until 17/02/2012 when it was transported to the Retro Aviation premises in Shropshire where the aircraft will be restored and sold.
Sources:
1. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1967.htm
2. https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1143579/
3. http://forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=29712
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Wymeswold#Post-war
5. http://www.jetprovostfile.org/latest-news-on-jp-movements/
6. http://www.jetprovostheaven.com/jpt3/jpt3survivors.html
7. http://derbosoft.proboards.com/thread/5794
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 29-Nov-2011 04:50 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 14-Aug-2013 15:51 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 14-Aug-2013 15:53 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 06-Dec-2018 18:07 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Operator] |
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