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Date: | Thursday 19 January 1956 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH.115 Vampire T Mk 11 |
Owner/operator: | FWS RAF |
Registration: | XD609 |
MSN: | 15389 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Tickton, 5 miles SE of RAF Leconfield, East Yorkshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Leconfield, East Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:de Havilland DH.115 Vampire T.Mk 11 XD609: Delivered 28/1/55. RAF service career was just under one year, and was with the FWS (Fighter Weapons School) RAF coded "D", only
Written off 19/1/56: The pilot, Squadron Leader Philip Richard Robinson (Service Number 47115) of the FWS (Fighter Weapons School) who ejected near Tickton, five miles South East of Leconfield, East Yorkshire after the engine failed.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.177 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft XA100-XZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 2001 p 19)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.174
4.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH115%20prodn%20list.txt 5.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=XD 6.
https://ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh115.pdf 7.
http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html 8.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm 9.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickton Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
11-Mar-2013 23:41 |
Dr. John Smith |
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20-Jun-2013 19:13 |
Nepa |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Narrative] |
09-Jan-2020 22:19 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
03-May-2020 10:02 |
Anon. |
Updated [Narrative] |
09-Jun-2020 00:01 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
09-Jun-2020 00:02 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Location] |
09-Jun-2020 00:04 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source] |
09-Jun-2020 08:17 |
BlB |
Updated [Operator, Narrative, Operator] |