Newspaper Article reporting the retirement of TriStar aircraft from RAF Brize Norton. The last four aircraft will go to Bruntingthorpe in Lincolnshire to be scrapped.
On 28 November 1946 an Avro York MW168 belonging to the Transport Command Development Unit at RAF Brize Norton failed to become airborne and instead crashed on to the railway line between Brize Norton and Carterton stations, coming to rest in a field, as pictured. Needless to say the line was closed for several days while the RAF effected recovery. Photograph from the Martin Loader Collection