Date:	Wednesday 9 September 1953
Time:	day
Type:	Canadair CL-13 (F-86E) Sabre F.4
Owner/operator:	147 Sqn RAF
Registration:	XB949
MSN:	712
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Kinloss, Morayshire, Scotland -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Ferry/positioning
Departure airport:	Keflavik, Iceland (KEF/BIKF)
Destination airport:	RAF Kinloss, Morayshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Canadair CL-13 (F-86E) Sabre F.4 XB949: Ex RCAF 19812. Diverted to RAF before RCAF serial marked, planned to become XB925. First flight on 19/8/1953. Operated by No. 147 Squadron on delivery flight to the UK, but crashed 9/9/1953 during delivery flight at RAF Kinloss, Morayshire. The pilot was apparently uninjured.

NOTE: To complicate matters, Sabre XB949 "the first" (c/no.712) was to have been re-serialled XB925 after being taken on charge, due to that serial already having been alocated to another aircraft (c/no.736, ex-RCAF 19836). Sabre XB949 "the second" (C/no.736) first flew on 2/9/1953, and was sucessfully taken on charge on 29/9/1953. Service was with No. 3 Squadron in Germany; No. 130 Squadron at Bruggen, Germany, coded "Z"; and No. 234 Squadron in Germany, until Struck Off Charge on 12/6/1957 upon transfer to the USAF. They then passed it on (under MADP - Military Aid Development Progam) to the Italian Air force as MM19837

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.150 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 Colin Cummings p 411
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft XA100-XZ999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 2001)
4. 147 Squadron ORB (Operations Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM.F/540) for the period 1/2/1953 to 31/12/1955: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 27/2647/3 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8425941
5. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1953.htm
6. http://www.rwrwalker.ca/RCAF_19801_19850_detailed.htm
7. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=XB

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
14-May-2021 17:10	Dr. John Smith	Added
14-May-2021 17:17	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]
14-May-2021 17:18	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Country]
14-May-2021 21:25	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
14-May-2021 21:26	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
14-May-2021 21:29	Coumes	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator]