RAF Bovingdon - 1960s

[OUAQUKGF Ops]

Some more images plucked from The Ether...........

Airspeed Oxford 1956 Photo credit Arthur Pearcy.



Meteor F Mk8 1956 Photo credit Arthur Pearcy



DH Devon 38 Group Comms Flt 1958 Photo Credit Arthur Pearcy

This particular Devon, on which he gained his twin rating, was often flown by HRH The Duke Of Edinburgh. In later life it was seen on the airshow circuit as G-HBBC. In 2010 or thereabouts it was purchased by a Norfolk businessman and taken by road to North Norfolk where it was rumoured to have disappeared into the Stygian Gloom of a large abandoned aerodrome perhaps never to be seen again......?



At Coventry



At Compton Abbas in October 2011 before shipment to Norfolk. Photo credit John Morris.



HP Hastings 1955.

AW Meteor NF14 1957. Photo credit Arthur Pearcy.




The tail of the same aeroplane in an Ulster Riding School Paddock during the 1990s.



Earlier image of 840 on the Aldergrove Fire Dump in 1979. Photo credits via AW Meteor WS788 Restoration Project.



Fairchild Packet (C119) 1956 Photo credit Arthur Pearcy.




1956 Photo Credit Arthur Pearcy.



Douglas C117 1956 Photo credit Arthur Pearcy.

The same aeroplane at Davis Monthan AFB Tucson October 1978. Photo credit Keith Burton




In Civil Colours at its Toronto base in 1989. Photo credit as per caption with thanks.



The last hurrah! At Brandford Airport Canada in May 2010. I think she was scrapped in 2011.....