On 21st July 1953 this aircraft had a Cat.3R damage assessment made against it. At the time it was on charge with No.228 Operational Training Unit and was based at Leeming. What caused the damage assessment to be made is not known. The No.60 Maintenance Unit record book lists all the aeroplanes that they were tasked with making servicable in 1953. For this aircraft it states that it was servicable during the month of September 1953 at Leeming and it returned to the flying unit the following month.