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| Date: | Tuesday 25 April 1950 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | Miles Martinet TT Mk 1 |
| Owner/operator: | 226 OCU RAF |
| Registration: | JN647 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | RAF Gosfield, 5 miles North of Braintree, Essex, England -
United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Stradishall, Suffolk |
| Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Miles M-25 Martinet TT. Mk.1 JN647, 226 OCU, RAF; Written off (damaged beyond repair) 25/4/50 when force landed due to engine failure on the disused Gosfield Aerodrome, 5 miles north of Braintree, Essex. (RAF Gosfield had closed in February 1946). No fatalities or injuries reported to the crew of two.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999. Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.101 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 Colin Cummings p 51
3.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Gosfield Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
| 18-Jan-2018 17:33 |
TB |
Added |
| 27-Dec-2019 19:10 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Total fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 27-Dec-2019 21:42 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Nature, Operator, ] |
| 22-Dec-2020 19:34 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, ] |
| 23-Dec-2020 10:06 |
TB |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Operator, ] |