Date:	Tuesday 28 September 1954
Time:	day
Type:	Boulton Paul Balliol T.2
Owner/operator:	RAF College Cranwell
Registration:	WG110
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Frith Bank, 2 miles WNW of Boston, Lincolnshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Barkston Heath, Lincolnshire (EGYE)
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Boulton Paul Balliol T.2 WG110: Delivered 31/10/52. RAF Service was with 7 FTS, RAF Cottesmore, and RAF College Cranwell (aircraft usually based at Barkston Heath).

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 28/9/54: Pilot lost control of the aircraft in cloud, and the Balliol power dived into the ground near Frith Bank, two miles West-North-West of Boston, Lincolnshire. Pilot (flying solo) was killed

Crew of Balliol WG110
Flight Cadet John Francis Rhodes (pilot, Service Number 607499, aged 20) - killed on active service 28/9/54

Wreckage recovered to RAF Cranwell, where Struck Off Charge as Cat.5(scrap) 14/10/54

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.163 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985 p.42)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.93
4. http://www.bcar.org.uk/1950s-incident-logs#1954
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WG
6. http://www.interment.net/data/eng/lincoln/st_andrew/index.htm
7. http://www.ukserials.com/prodlists.php?type=959

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
07-Jun-2008 14:47	JINX	Added
23-Apr-2020 21:43	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]