Date:	Wednesday 8 March 1950
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.100 Vampire F Mk 1
Owner/operator:	203 AFS RAF
Registration:	VF276
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Driffield, North Yorkshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Driffeld, North Yorkshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Written off (damaged beyond repair) when lost wing tank on take-off from RAF Driffield, North Yorkshire, stalled and crashed 8.3.50. On take off the starboard long range drop tank came off and the aircraft climbed steeply. The port wing then dropped and the aircraft slipped into the ground from about 60 feet. Pilot - Peter James Martin (service number 3110222, aged 20) - killed

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.89 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.29
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH100%20prodn%20list.txt
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VF
6. https://www.pprune.org/archive/index.php/t-329990-p-14.html
7. http://veterans.mod.uk/roll-of-honour.php?SerialNo=R1072
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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
02-Mar-2013 13:44	Dr. John Smith	Added
04-Dec-2018 20:08	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Operator]
08-Jan-2020 21:24	stehlik49	Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Operator]
15-Feb-2020 15:08	Dr J P Shipley	Updated [Total fatalities, Source, Narrative]
15-Dec-2020 13:41	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Source, Narrative]
15-Dec-2020 13:44	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]
15-Dec-2020 17:45	Komes	Updated [Operator, Operator]