Henry Crun mentioned a book listing all the RAF losses from 1945 onwards. It is an excellent reference book for checking one’s memory. Called “Broken Wings” it is published by Air Britain, written by James J Halley MBE and has an ISBN of 0815302904.
Looking quickly before leaving for work BEagle, I saw that on the 12th Feb 1954 there were two T7s (VW430 and WH244) lost at Merryfield (from 209 AFS in the book not 208??) both of which flew into the ground trying to land in poor wx. The same day an F4, VT313, was written off at W Zoyland on a wheels up landing. I couldn’t see any more multi accident days near Merryfield that year but will double check when next home.
I did see that 73 Sqn managed to lose six Venoms in one day just before Christmas 54 in Iraq !
The losses in the post war years were amazing – quoting from Broken Wings….
1945 592 a/c lost 638 fatalities
1946 1014 677
1947 420 176
1948 424 205
1949 438 224
1950 380 238
1951 490 280
1952 507 318
1953 483 333
1954 452 283
1955 305 182
1956 270 150
1957 233 139
1958 128 87
1959 102 59
1960 80 46
1961 74 55
1962 68 50
1963 60 41
1964 62 33
1965 46 71
1966 62 33
1967 60 60
1968 51 43
1969 31 22
1970 36 25
1971 40 72