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Old 27th May 2018, 04:52
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Employed by BOAC as a pilot in 1958 but initially used as a navigator, so to ensure that we kept our pilot licences valid BOAC established a fleet of Chipmunks at Croydon, and paid for us to fly the minimum 6 hours and 6 landings every 6 months. Croydon was closed shortly after I started, and the BOAC Chipmunks moved to White Waltham,

My logbook shows a flight from Croydon to Lympne and return on 21st March 1959 and then a flight on August 7th out of White Waltham, so obviously not the last, but clearly one of the last to fly in and out of Croydon.
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