Originally Posted by
treadigraph
Major Mike Somerton-Raynor?
He was ex-Army I think and kept a JetRanger and an Auster in a little hangar on the airfield, not sure if he was the owner or not...
Owner he was not, Henry bought the site and operated the aerodrome from 1959.
As for the Auster, probably the originally 9M- registered Auster 3 that Maj Somerton-Rayner ferried back to UK, in the many decades before GPS!