Date:	Wednesday 25 January 1956
Time:	day
Type:	Hawker Hunter F Mk 5
Owner/operator:	263 (Fellowship of the Bellows) Sqn RAF
Registration:	WP107
MSN:	S4/U/2987
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Middlewood Green, 5 miles ENE of Stowmarket, Suffolk -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Wattisham, Suffolk (EGUW)
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Hawker Hunter F.Mk.5 WP107: Notified as awaiting collection 31/3/55. Delivered to the RAF at 5 MU Kemble 1/4/55 (next day). Sole RAF operational service was with 263 Squadron at RAF Wattisham, Suffolk

Written off 25/01/1956: Crashed at Middlewood Green, five miles East North East of Stowmarket, Suffolk, after the pilot (Flight Lieutenant H. A. Merriman (Service Number 3108403)) ejected when the engine broke up in flight on a sortie from RAF Wattisham, Suffolk

Wreckage recovered to Farnborough, Hampshire for accident investigation, after which the the remains were placed on the fire dump at Farmborough for fire fighting training. Since perished/burnt out (but recorded as still present during September 1964 - one of 21 Hawker Hunters: 2 Hunter F.2s, 3 Hunter F.1s and 16 Hunter F5s dumped at Farmborough at this time)

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.177 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 81)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.176
4. 263 Squadron ORB (Operations Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/1/56 to 30/6/63: File AIR 27/2852/4 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8433623
5. http://web.archive.org/web/20170723045955/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/PROJECT/YEAR_Pages/1956.htm
7. http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/18846
8. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WP
9. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm
10. https://www.fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=83928&start=20

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
10-Jan-2009 11:55	ASN archive	Added
18-Aug-2010 02:49	penguin832	Updated [Operator, Location, Country, Phase, Source, Narrative]
04-Dec-2011 07:03	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
27-Jan-2012 14:03	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Departure airport]
22-Apr-2013 12:54	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
30-May-2013 13:58	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location]
10-Jun-2020 21:48	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Location, Source, Narrative]