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Date: | Wednesday 10 November 1954 |
Time: | day |
Type: | English Electric Canberra B.2 |
Owner/operator: | Armstrong Siddeley Motors Ltd |
Registration: | WD933 |
MSN: | 71013 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Bitteswell, Leicestershire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Test |
Departure airport: | Bitteswell, Leicestershire |
Destination airport: | Bitteswell, Leicestershire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:EE Canberra WD933: Delivered 13/4/51. Not delivered to the RAF, retained by Vickers Armstrongs Ltd., Weybridge, and then (from April 1952) as the Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire AS.3, AS.6 and AS.7 engine testbed: Written off 10/11/1954, Engines would not relight, crash landed and overturned at Bitteswell, Leicestershire
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.165 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985 p.30)
3. English Electric Canberra: The History and Development of a Classic Jet By Bruce Barrymore Halpenny
4. National Archives Coventry: Armstrong Siddeley Motors Experimental (Flight Section) File PA1716/4/5/116 at
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/ebb8e29d-d026-4024-969c-7af7a66ce116 5.
https://www.pprune.org/military-aircrew/269642-canberra-hours-3.html 6.
http://www.aviationbanter.com/showthread.php?t=162438 7.
https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1954/1954 8.
https://www.airphotographicinternational.com/products/wd933-english-electric-canberra-b-2sapphire-raf-farnborough-1952 Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
03-Jun-2008 15:54 |
JINX |
Added |
10-Apr-2013 01:00 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Other fatalities, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
30-Jul-2013 01:23 |
Dave Starky |
Updated [Operator, Total occupants] |
27-Apr-2020 23:10 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |