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Date: | Wednesday 6 September 1950 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10 |
Owner/operator: | 18 RFS RAF |
Registration: | WB644 |
MSN: | C1/0073 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Fairoaks Airport, Chobham, Woking, Surrey, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Fairoaks Airport, Chobham, Woking, Surrey (EGTF) |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10 WB644, 18 RFS (Reserve Flying School): Delivered 31/05/1950. Written off 06/09/1950: The aircraft began a roll at low altitude, and, while inverted, lost height and flew into the ground at Fairoaks Airport, Chobham, Woking, Surrey, killing one of the two persons on board - the pilot, Flight Lieutenant Nigel Kenneth Howard, AFC, RAF, Service Number 19138, aged 47.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.89 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.81
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100 - WZ999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain 1983 p.20)
4.
http://www.ukserials.com/prodlists.php?type=343 5.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WB 6.
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34849/data.pdf 7.
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36152/supplement/3870/data.pdf .
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
01-Jun-2008 16:41 |
JINX |
Added |
07-Jun-2008 22:00 |
JINX |
Updated |
07-May-2014 19:58 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Total occupants, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
25-Nov-2018 15:23 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
30-Dec-2020 19:11 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
30-Dec-2020 20:56 |
JIXON |
Updated [Operator, Location, Operator] |
30-Dec-2020 21:31 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |