Date:	Tuesday 22 April 1941
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapide
Owner/operator:	2 Signals School, RAF
Registration:	R5923
MSN:	6459
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Yatesbury, Calne, Wiltshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Yatesbury, Calne, Wiltshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
C/no 6459: Taken on charge by the RAF as R5923 (under Contract 21547/39) at 2 E&WS RAF Yatesbury 13.10.39; renamed 2 Signal School 26.8.40. (2 x Gipsy Six engines #60007/60008)

Written off (damaged beyond repair) when swung off the runway on take-off and hit fence at RAF Yatesbury, Calne, Wiltshire, 22.4.41. No fatalities or injuries reported. Struck off charge 29.4.41 (total time on airframe: 639 hrs)

RAF Yatesbury is a former Royal Air Force airfield near the village of Yatesbury, Wiltshire, England, about 4 miles (6 km) east of the town of Calne. It was an important training establishment in the First and Second World Wars and until its closure in 1965.

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft R1000-R9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1980 page 37)
2. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh89.pdf
3. 2 Signals School Operational Record Book (Record of Events 1 October 1938 to 31 December 1945): National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 29/719 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4100428
4. https://www.ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/no-2-radio-school-raf-yatesbury-1941.102337/
5. https://web.archive.org/web/20230403122539/https://wallyswar.wordpress.com/wireless-operator-training/
6. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/08/a2045008.shtml
7. https://www.far-eastern-heroes.org.uk/My_Grandad/html/radio_school.htm
8. https://www.rafht.co.uk/index.php/2016/06/23/no-2-signals-school/
9. https://www.rafcommands.com/archive/05935.php
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Yatesbury#Second_World_War

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
19-Feb-2019 17:09	Dr. John Smith	Added
04-Mar-2019 18:28	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator, ]
19-Feb-2022 17:48	Anon.	Updated [Location, Departure airport, ]
22-Mar-2025 02:56	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Category, ]