Date:	Tuesday 21 August 1956
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.115 Vampire T Mk 11
Owner/operator:	5 FTS RAF
Registration:	XD521
MSN:	15355
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Graveley, Huntingdonshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:	RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire

Narrative:
de Havilland DH.115 Vampire T.Mk 11 XD521: delivered 6/4/1954. RAF Service career was with 206 AFS (Advanced Flying School) and 5 FTS RAF Oakington.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 21/8/56: Undershot the runway on approach to RAF Oakington, and aircraft hit a hedge at Graveley, Huntingdonshire after the engine failed to respond during an overshoot.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.182 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft XA100-XZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 16)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.207
4. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH115%20prodn%20list.txt
6. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=XD
7. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh115.pdf
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graveley,_Cambridgeshire

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
24-Jun-2020 21:20	Dr. John Smith	Added
25-Jun-2020 13:39	Allach	Updated [Operator, Operator, ]