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Date: | Monday 12 December 1955 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH.115 Vampire T Mk 11 |
Owner/operator: | 8 FTS RAF |
Registration: | XE989 |
MSN: | 15576 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:de Havilland DH.115 Vampire T.Mk.11 XE989: Delivered 14/7/55. Sole RAF career was with 8 FTS at RAF Swinderby
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 12/12/55: The aircraft made an emergency belly landing at RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire after an engine fire in flight. The pilot - Pilot Officer R.D. Knight - escaped uninjured, but the aircraft was extensively damaged.
Struck off charge as Cat.5(G/I) and allocated for Ground Instructional Use as 7296M at RAF Swinderby. Later scrapped
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.177 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft XA100-XZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 2001 p 26)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.169
4.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH115%20prodn%20list.txt 5.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=XE 6.
https://ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh115.pdf 7.
http://www.bcar.org.uk/1950s-incident-logs#1955 8.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1955.htm Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
06-Jun-2020 16:42 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
06-Jun-2020 18:37 |
Jixon |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Narrative, Operator] |
11-Jun-2020 19:35 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |