Date:	Tuesday 23 August 1955
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10
Owner/operator:	Cambridge UAS RAF
Registration:	WB561
MSN:	C1/0013
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	South Cerney, Cirencester, Gloucestershire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF South Cerney, Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
De Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunk T10, WB561: Delivered 17/2/50. RAF service career was with Oxford UAS (University Air Squadron), Bristol UAS and Cambridge UAS.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 23/8/55 when Control column jammed, air aircraft side slipped into the ground at South Cerney, Cirencester, Gloucestershire. Both crew were uninjured.

Crew of Chipmunk WB561:
Flight Lieutenant H G Perry RAF (pilot)
Cadet Pilot J A C Atkins ATC RAF (passenger)

Struck off charge 6/9/55 at 49 MU RAF Colerne, Wiltshire

According to some sources, WB561 was rebuilt and supplied to the Irish Air Corps as "199". The fuselage of a Chipmunk marked "199" was present at the Irish Air Corps Museum at Baldonnel as recently as March 2019 (see links #7 & #9). However, it is possible that IAC 199 is a composite of several airframes, the largest pieces being the fuselage from WB561 and the wings of WG320 (civil registered as G-APTF for test flying and delivery).

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 WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 19)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.152
4. http://www.demobbed.org.uk/aircraft.php?type=343
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WB
6. https://www.aviation-links.co.uk/Gloucestershire%20Aircraft%20Accidents.pdf
7. https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1291003
8. https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1376644
9. https://www.key.aero/forum/historic-aviation/56963-chipmunk-question

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
01-Jun-2008 03:51	JINX	Added
08-Jun-2008 02:22	JINX	Updated
25-Jan-2020 22:42	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
25-Jan-2020 22:58	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
13-Feb-2020 07:53	Iwosh	Updated [Operator, Nature, Operator]
26-May-2020 22:54	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]
26-May-2020 22:54	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]