On 5th April 1951 this 203 Advanced Flying School aircraft took off from Driffield airfield just before 15.00hrs with the pilot briefed to undertake an aerobatics training exercise. At 15.15hrs the pilot was carrying out stall turns when control was lost and the aircraft dived into the ground near Creyke Farm, Kilham. The pilot was killed in the crash and the aircraft was destroyed. An investigation could find not real cause for control having being lost and it was thought that the pilot may have suffered a phyiscal problem, possibly caused by the tight forced affected of the body or anoxia.
Pilot - P/O Robin Tennent MacMullen RAF (607117). Aged 21. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire.
Robin MacMullen was buried at Driffield Cemetery. He was the son of Major-General Hugh Tennent McMullen CBE MC. He was educated at Wellington College and been in the ATC as a young man where he learned to fly gliders. In April 1948 he entered the RAF College at Cranwell, he was later awarded the Sword of Honour following training there in 1950.