ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 145465
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| Date: | Friday 23 July 1965 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | Bristol 171 Sycamore HR.14 |
| Owner/operator: | Metropolitan CS RAF |
| Registration: | XG540 |
| MSN: | 13380 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Henton near Chinnor, Oxfordshire -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
| RAF Hendon, London | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Written off 23/07/1965: Overturned in a forced landing at Henton near Chinnor, Oxfordshire after the engine cut. to 71 MU RAF Bicester 9/12/1965 where struck off charge as Cat.5(G/I) as 7899M
Allocated to RAF Ternhill for crash rescue training, but spared. Instead, seems to have been pressed into service as a static display/recruitment airframe with the RAF Exhibition Flight, in overall yellow colours and "RESCUE" markings. (Sees as such at Plymouth 24/4/1970, Little Rissington in August 1970, as per the photo below, and North Weald (EGSX) 28/5/1972).
Re-allocated to static display on the RAF Shawbury main gate as 8345M on 29/9/1976. Preserved in fake markings as "XJ385"/"J-S" of the RAF CFS Rotary Wing.
Later (by 1988) sold off to private ownership, turning up in Preston in 1991. By 1996, reported at The Bygone Times Antique Warehouse on the B5250, to the South of Leyland. Lancashire (in the car park). Not sighted since 2000, presumed scrapped
Sources:
1. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1965.htm
2. https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1038214/
3. http://www.filton.flyer.co.uk/bristol/prod171.html
4. https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1021732/
5. http://www.aircraft-scrapyards-and-gi-airframes.org.uk/gate-guardians-preserved-aircraft/
6. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/derek.blake87/lancs.htm
Media:
Sycamore XG540 at Little Rissington (EGVL) in August 1970
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 06-May-2012 09:45 | ryan | Added |
| 21-Apr-2013 22:59 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Date, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 22-Apr-2013 08:37 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Location, Destination airport] |
| 18-Sep-2013 09:05 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Location, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 18-Sep-2013 09:13 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 27-Nov-2019 14:29 | Anon. | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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