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Date: | Thursday 18 August 1955 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Avro Anson C Mk 19 |
Owner/operator: | 61 Gp CF RAF |
Registration: | TX180 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Beech Farm, Chelsham, Warlingham, Surrey -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Kenley, Whyteleafe, Surrey |
Destination airport: | RAF Kenley, Surrey |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Avro Anson C.19 TX180, 61 Group Communications Flight, RAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 18/8/55. Engine failure whilst in the circuit at RAF Kenley, Whyteleafe, Surrey during an asymmetric flying training sortie. Aircraft made a wheels-up forced landing in a field at Beech Farm, Beech Farm Road, Chelsham, Warlingham, Surrey. (At approximate co-ordinates 51:17.8265N, 0:0.9601W)
The reported crash location of Chelsham is a village in the civil parish of Chelsham and Farleigh and the Tandridge District of Surrey, England. It is located in the Metropolitan Green Belt, 15.3 miles from London, 3 miles from Oxted and 23.8 miles from Guildford
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.173 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 55)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.151
4. The Anson File (Ray Sturtivant, Air Britain, 1988 p.135)
5. Anson TX180 on 2-5-53:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dwhitworth/5552692106 6. Beech Farm, Chelsham in 2012:
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3018568 7.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsham Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
26-May-2020 22:41 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
27-May-2020 07:16 |
MIG29 |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |