T21 WJ306

[Skylark4]

T21 WJ306 was built in 1950 and bought by tender from the RAF at St Athan for £750 in 1987 by a syndicate at Oxford Gliding Club and she is still there and fairly regularly flown. We would like to know something of her past life so if anyone can shed light on this we would appreciate it. The RAF don`t seem to know anything.

Many thanks,

Mike W

[TicketyBoo]

I checked my old gliding log book, and I flew this aircraft 3 times on 7 and 8 September 1977 at Halesland, the ridge soaring site near RAF Locking.. .I was a staff cadet at 635 Gliding School, Burtonwood at the time, and in the summer each school would get a week at Halesland to practice ridge soaring -the gliders there were both Sedburghs - WJ306 and XN151. I think they belonged to the Air Cadet Central Gliding School, who lived at Syerston, so I suppose your a/c would normally have been based there. I'm glad to see the old girl is still going strong- I'm only sorry I can't fill you in on the 1950-77 and 1977-87 bits of her life!!!

TicketyBoo.

[Skylark4]

Thanks for that Tickety Boo. I didn`t thank you earlier as I was rather expecting more than just the one reply. Perhaps I`ll run it up the flagpole again in a few weeks. . .I did my 5 hours from Weston Airport, which I assume is the same place, certainly the same ridge, in about 1965, and I was an Apprentice at Locking 1957-9, 88th Entry.

Thanks again,

Mike W

[BEagle]

If she was at Locking in 1967 then I may well have flown her - and indeed may have done my first solo in her as a CCF army cadet from Merryfield in Summer 1967 when the Locking apprentiods held a camp there. Ch Tech Bobbin (?), Cpl Howard Askew, et al.??