Woodford's aviation heritage predates the lists of a/c listed so far. Alliot Verdon Roe established an aircraft production factory there in the mid twenties.
At around the same time 3 men and a lad started the Lancashire Aero Club at Eccles nr Manchester. The first club house was at Woodford and they flew Avro Avians until the war intervened.
LAC trained pilots at Woodford who went on to help form the first wave of wartime RAF pilots. It is also where Roy Chadwick lost his life in the Tudor crash. This together with all that's been said here marks this aerodrome as a significant aeronautical heritage site.
It could be said that the destruction would brand the directors of BAe Philistines. But I think we knew that anyway.
Sir George Cayley