Date:	Wednesday 8 July 1953
Time:	day
Type:	Avro Anson Mk XI
Owner/operator:	CC CF RAF
Registration:	PH808
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Hamble, Hampshire,England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Hamble, Hampshire
Destination airport:	RAF Hamble, Hampshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Avro Anson Mk.XI PH808, Coastal Command Communications Flight (CCCF) RAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 8.7.53. The crew was completing a local training sortie at RAF Hamble. Apparently following a wrong approach configuration, the crew landed long, about 75 yards in from the airfield boundary. As the aircraft was unable to stop within the remaining distance, it overran the airfield, crossing a road, and came to rest on a railway. Both pilots were unhurt while the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

Sold as scrap 5.2.54. However, some sources (see link #7) state that the fuselage was salvaged and used in October 1955 to be rebuilt as Avro XIX G-ALXH by BKS Engineering Ltd, Southend. The composite airframe retained the identity of G-ALXH.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.146 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
3. The Anson File (Ray Sturtivant, Air Britain, 1988 p 132)
4. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p 385
5. http://britishaviation-ptp.com/avro652_3.html
6. http://www.hampshireairfields.co.uk/hancrash.html
7. Yorkshire Air News September 1968: http://www.55hr.karoo.net/images/1968%2009.PDF
8. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-avro-652-anson-xi-hamble
9. G-ALXH history 1950-63: https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ALXH.pdf

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
05-Sep-2013 08:09	JINX	Added
14-Dec-2013 16:28	TB	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Damage, Narrative]
27-Jan-2020 23:23	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Total occupants, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
28-Jan-2020 10:43	stehlik49	Updated [Operator, Nature, Operator]
28-Jan-2020 17:35	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Date, Operator, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
28-Jan-2020 22:46	stehlik49	Updated [Operator, Operator]
03-May-2021 15:33	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative]
03-May-2021 21:36	Jixn	Updated [Operator, Location, Narrative, Operator]