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Date: | Wednesday 25 August 1954 |
Time: | day |
Type: | North American Harvard T Mk 2B |
Owner/operator: | 1 FTS RAF |
Registration: | FX202 |
MSN: | 14A-1505 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 4 miles WNW of Stow-on-The Wold, Gloucestershire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Gloucestershire |
Destination airport: | RAF Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Gloucestershire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:North American Harvard T.2B FX202, ex-USAF 43-34620. Earliest known RAF service was when delivered to the RAF at 2 FTS in October 1950. Transferred to 1 FTS in February 1951. One of a batch of North American AT-16 built under license by Noorduyn Aviation. Originally ordered as Lend-Lease from US, USAAF serials allocated as 43-34615 to 43-34914. Order transferred to Canadian Mutual Aid; this contract was back-dated to some aircraft already delivered. Aircraft up to FX354/43-34771 had USAAF data plates fitted recording the USAAF serials which had been retrospectively cancelled. Delivered to Great Britain as Harvard IIB FX198 to FX497
Written off (destroyed) 25/8/54 when crashed four miles west-north-west of Stow-on-The-Wold, Gloucestershire. Aircraft broke up recovering from a dive in cloud, and both crew were killed. The reason for the aircraft's disintegration in flight was never ascertained. Both crew were killed
Crew of Harvard FX202
Flight Lieutenant Robert Stewart McTAVISH (Service Number 163297, A2 QFI Instructor, aged 30)
Acting Pilot Officer Roger Owen Faure FIELD (Service Number 3141783, Student Pilot under instruction, aged 19)
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.162 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. The Harvard File (John F Hamlin, Air Britain, 1988 p 104)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.84
4. National Archives (PRO Kew) File BT233/229:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C424350 5.
http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1943_2.html 6.
https://www.aviation-links.co.uk/Gloucestershire%20Aircraft%20Accidents.pdf 7.
http://www.aviationarchaeology.org.uk/marg/crashes1950-88.htm Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
10-Jan-2020 01:02 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Date, Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
10-Jan-2020 01:02 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Date] |
10-Jan-2020 09:59 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Nature, Operator] |
20-Apr-2020 00:07 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
20-Apr-2020 08:30 |
Investig |
Updated [Operator, Location, Operator] |
20-Apr-2020 20:03 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source] |