Originally Posted by
treadigraph
Peter Arnold .....
Chap came up the tower at Fairoaks about 3 years ago to pay a landing fee for an aircraft coming to pick him up. He gazed at the view and casually mentioned 'my father used to own this airport'!!
At that time he said he was managing an aircraft museum in the USA.
I didn't mention I'd met him before in his younger days when he was in the habit of riding a motorbike through the lines of parked aircraft at Blackbushe after dark; all you could see was his brake light.