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Old 2nd Mar 2013, 23:31
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Aerovan

I well remember seeing an Aerovan (in an open blister hangar early sixties) on the original (civil) part of what is RAF/RM Chivenor.
This was alongside the railway line (long gone) and probably only visible from the train (en-route Air Cadet camp).
Could have been the ideal flying camper van if allowed on the PFA (as it was)
Chiv was a great camp with hundreds of Hunter movements all the time,and our WO got a T7 trip lucky chap.
Just had a look on Google Earth,and that old blister may have survived as part of an industrial estate.Its in the correct place alongside what is now a cycle way/coastal path.I better have a look next time up that way,may be an old Pobjoy (Scion) lurking in the brambles.
This had been the pre war field for a service to Lundy Island.

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