Date:	Tuesday 25 September 1945
Time:	day
Type:	North American Harvard T.2B
Owner/operator:	5 (P) AFU RAF
Registration:	FX386
MSN:	14A-1689
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Atcham, 5 miles East of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Atcham, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Destination airport:	RAF Atcham, Shrewsbury, Shropshire

Narrative:
Ex-USAAF 43-34803; North American Harvard T.IIB FX386 ("HG") 5 (Pilot) Advanced Flying Unit RAF. Written off (damaged beyond repair) 25 September 1945 when hit tree on approach to Atcham, 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, and crashed. No fatalities or casualties reported.

300 North American AT-16 Harvards 43-36415 to 43-34914 (MSN Nos. 14A-1501 to 14A-1800) were built under license by Noorduyn Aviation. Originally ordered as Lend-Lease from USA, USAAF serials allocated. Order transferred to Canadian Mutual Aid; this contract was back-dated to some aircraft already delivered. Aircraft up to FX354/43-34771 had USAAF data plates fitted recording the USAAF serials which had been retrospectively cancelled. Delivered to Great Britain as Harvard IIB FX198 to FX497.

1. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. ISBN 0-85130-290-4) p 8
2. The Harvard File (John F Hamlin, Air Britain, 1988 p 108)
3. http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1940-1949_28.html
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Atcham#Back_to_Royal_Air_Force_control
5. http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1943_2.html

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
25-Oct-2019 19:42	Dr. John Smith	Added
28-Oct-2019 09:38	Anon.	Updated [Operator, Narrative, Operator]