Originally Posted by
TCAS FAN
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!
Ah, in trying to answer Maoraigh1's comment I'd overlooked your comment about Henry Pelham!
Mike S-R's Auster that I recall was an AOP-11 - I think actually I saw that at Middle Wallop and the Jet Ranger was on it's own in the hangar which was on the road up from the A303. This was 1979.
Looking at the Auster 3, he registered it in December 1960; a long way in such an aeroplane. I'm just re-reading Two Men in a Flying Machine by John Morris, how he flew the GAL Monospar now at Newark from Australia to the UK in '63. That was quite an arduous adventure at times...