Date:	Tuesday 12 October 1954
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB Mk 5
Owner/operator:	233 OCU RAF
Registration:	VZ309
MSN:	EEP/42...
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Cynwyl Elfed, 6 miles North West of Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Pembrey, Carmarthenshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB.Mk.5 VZ309: Delivered 10/3/50. RAF Service was with 213 Squadron (coded "G") and 233 OCU RAF Pembrey.

Written off (destroyed) 12/10/54: Ran out of fuel in bad weather and abandoned over Cynwyl Elfed, six miles North West of Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales. Pilot bailed out safely.

NOTE: The Vampire FB.5 on display at the Evergreen Air and Space Museum, McMinnville, Oregon (see links #6 and #7) marked up as "G" of 213 Squadron, RAF, is, of course, not the real thing, but is a former Indian Air Force Vampire FB.52 IB-1686. It also carries the US civil registration N174LA (see link #9)

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.164 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985 p.102)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.95
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH100%20prodn%20list.txt
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VZ
6. https://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled/De-Havilland-Hindustan-DH-100-Vampire-FB52/1555929/L
7. https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevipedia/30187357360
8. http://aircraft-in-focus.com/de-havilland-d-h-100-vampire/
9. https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=174LA
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynwyl_Elfed

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
24-Apr-2020 23:21	Dr. John Smith	Added
25-Apr-2020 09:17	Allach	Updated [Operator, Operator]