Date:	Tuesday 2 December 1952
Time:	night
Type:	Gloster Meteor NF Mk 11
Owner/operator:	228 OCU RAF
Registration:	WD761
MSN:	AWA.
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Marton-cum-Grafton, 3 miles SE of Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor NF.11, WD761, 228 OCU RAF: delivered 15/5/1952. Written off 2/12/1952 when both engines failed at night due to fuel mismanagement, aircraft abandoned at Marton-cum-Grafton, 3 miles South East of Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire. Both Crew baled out - survived OK

The reported crash location of Marton is a village in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 15 miles (24 km) north-west of the city of York and 6 miles (9.7 km) north-east of the market town of Knaresborough. The village is joined with Grafton and it forms the civil parish of Marton cum Grafton.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.138 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p 315
3. 228 Squadron ORB (Operations Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/3/1951 to 31/12/1955: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR AIR 29/2166 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4101876
4. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WD
5. https://www.nelsam.org.uk/NEAR/Losses/Losses-PostWWII.htm
6. http://web.archive.org/web/20160310233713/http://ejection-history.org.uk/squadron_228_ocu/squadron_228ocu.htm
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marton,_Harrogate

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
03-Jun-2008 05:36	JINX	Added
05-Mar-2014 08:01	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
27-May-2020 07:20	MIG21	Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Operator]
30-Mar-2021 23:30	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative]
31-Mar-2021 12:02	TB	Updated [Operator, Operator]