Date:	Tuesday 19 July 1955
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor F Mk 8
Owner/operator:	19 Sqn RAF
Registration:	WH348
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Church Fenton, North Yorkshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Church Fenton, North Yorkshire
Destination airport:	RAF Church Fenton, North Yorkshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 WH348: Notified as awaiting collection 11/1/52, Delivered to the RAF 15/1/52. RAF Service career was with 19 Squadron at RAF Church Fenton only

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 19/7/55: Tyre burst on landing at RAF Church Fenton, North Yorkshire, aircraft skidded off the runway, and was only stopped when it collided with a wall. The pilot - Pilot Officer J M Payne - escaped uninjured

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.172 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 49)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.145
4. 19 Squadron ORB (Operations Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/1/51 to 31/12/56: File AIR 27/2693/1 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8427223
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WA

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
12-Jun-2008 07:22	JINX	Added
13-May-2015 08:34	Boile A.	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Destination airport]
23-May-2020 23:20	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
24-May-2020 08:18	Boile A.	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Operator]