de Havilland Venom WR557 Catalogue No. RAF 0072A
Taken on charge and delivered to the RAF on February 9, 1956. On 4 March 1957, Flight Lieutenant William Forster Marshall (aged 31) had taken off from RAF Silloth in Cumbria for a test flight in WR557. Just over fifteen minutes into the flight Flt Lt Marshall reported that the aircraft’s elevator was jammed and requested let down assistance to return to Silloth. At that time the aircraft was plotted by radio fixes as being a short distance from Durham.












