Date:	Thursday 14 January 1954
Time:	day
Type:	North American AT-16 Harvard T Mk 2B
Owner/operator:	9 FTS RAF
Registration:	KF243
MSN:	14A-2044
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Toddington,12 miles NE of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Wellesbourne Mounford, Warwickshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Delivered September 1944 to 9 (P)AFU. Last user 9 FTS from November 1953. Written off (damaged beyond repair) 14 January 1954: Crash landed during aerobatics, at Toddington, Gloucestershire

The aircraft was engaged on an aerobatic training sorte from RAF Wellesbourne Mountford (near Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire) when the engine lost power, and the aircraft was wrecked in a forced landing at Toddington, Gloucestershire.

Neither of the two crew - Flight Sergeant M.J.Nast (Instructor, aged 31) and Acting Pilot Officer J.L.Ryan (Pupil Pilot under training, aged 22) - were injured.

Toddington is a village and civil parish in north Gloucestershire in Tewkesbury Borough, located approximately 12 miles (20 km) north-east of Cheltenham

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.154 ISBN 0-85130-290-4
2. The Harvard File (John F Hamlin, Air Britain, 1988 p 116)
4. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.25
5. https://www.aviation-links.co.uk/Gloucestershire%20Aircraft%20Accidents.pdf
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toddington,_Gloucestershire

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
02-Apr-2020 18:44	Dr. John Smith	Added
03-Apr-2020 14:05	Investig	Updated [Operator, Nature, Operator, ]
04-Apr-2020 21:27	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Narrative, ]
05-Apr-2020 09:16	DG333	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Operator, ]
27-Jun-2024 11:54	Nepa	Updated [Location, Operator, ]