Cranwell AFB

The pilot departed RAF Cranwell on a local solo training mission. After takeoff, while climbing to a height of 200 feet, the airplane entered a dive and crashed near the airfield. The pilot was killed.
Crew:
LAC Vernon Ferguson Le Feuvre Allen, pilot.

The pilot was engaged in a solo training flight out from RAF Cranwell. While cruising at night, weather conditions deteriorated and the pilot lost his bearings. He reduced his altitude and attempted an emergency landing when the twin engine aircraft impacted a hedge and crashed in a field. The pilot was injured.
Crew:
Sgt James Quinn, pilot.

The crew was performing a training flight from RAF Cranwell to RAF Welbourn. Following a wrong approach configuration, the aircraft landed too far down the runway. After touchdown, it was unable to stop within the remaining distance, overran, hit a hedge and came to rest. Both pilots were unhurt while the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

The crew was completing a local training exercice out from RAF Cranwell. On final, the airplane was too high when the right wing stalled and impacted the runway surface. The airplane went out of control and crashed. All three crew members escaped uninjured.

The crew was performing a training flight out from RAF Cranwell. En route, while completing aerobatics manoeuvres, control was lost and the single engine spiraled to the ground. During the fall, both pilots abandoned the aircraft and bailed out. The aircraft crashed in a field and was destroyed while both pilots were uninjured.

The pilot departed RAF Cranwell on a local solo training flight. En route, he lost control of the airplane that dove in the ground and crashed in Fulbeck, some 6 km west of the airbase. The aircraft was destroyed and the pilot Flt Cadet Hugh Leslie James Bertram was killed.

The crew departed RAF Cranwell for a local training flight. While approaching the airfield, the airplane collided with a second RAF Avro 504 registered J9693 with one pilot on board. While the pilot of J9693 was able to land without further problems, the crew of J8709 lost control of the airplane that crashed on the ground. A crew member was killed and the second was injured.
Crew:
F/Lt Henry Leonard Drake, †
F/Cdt Francis de la Poer Beresford-Peirse.

The crew was engaged in a local training mission at RAF Cranwell. On final approach, the single engine airplane went out of control and crashed. Both crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt William Henry Fearn,
AC1 Leslie Edward Charlton.

The pilot, sole on board, was completing a local training flight out from RAF Cranwell. While flying in the vicinity of the airfield, he lost control of the airplane that entered a dive and crashed, bursting into flames. The pilot William Henry Hodgkinson was killed.

The crew was performing a nonstop flight from England to South Africa and the Royal Air Force ordered this Fairey Long Range Monoplane to establish a new record. The aircraft departed RAF Cranwell in the morning bound to the south. While overflying Tunisia by night, the crew did not realize his altitude was too low and was unable to distinguish the mountains (Djebel Zaghouan). Around 2240LT, the single engine airplane impacted the slope of a mountain located southwest of Zaghouan. The wreckage was found the following morning. The aircraft was destroyed upon impact and both crew members were killed.
Crew:
Arthur Gordon Jones-Williams,
Norman Hugh Jenkins.