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Here is a read only link to the Aerodrome Database - WhichAerodrome.xlsx. Up to date as of 1/5/2019. Catching up slowly - up to May 2019 now (Mar 2020).
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 Thanks to Self Loading Bear for suggesting that we use a wiki. Which Aerodrome I Which Aerodrome II nvubu. 
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Which Aerodrome Mk III
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Three hours, so one of mine. Haven't flown here, but passed by on occasion. Two separate flying services when an airfield, one of them flying Merlin-powered bomber types in WW2, and during said war a renowned actor flew here albeit not on a Merlin machine. Still military, I believe.
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No, but one of those had been involved with the then wife of my pilot from this field. You asked the correct question to circumvent my spoof! And indeed, one of those had acted with a British actor who died in a WW2 aerial incident.
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I could introduce a de Havilland theme were I to delve into school, pilots, films and so on. There is certainly a de Havilland link 15 miles north, en route to a school which is 45 miles north. Orientation W - E, road to left leads to DH link. Without going deeper, I am unaware of any Olivia link.
But then she is not the lady in question, but frankly, who gives a damn. Poorly quoted!
But then she is not the lady in question, but frankly, who gives a damn. Poorly quoted!
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Let's try the pilot and school link. My pilot, at this field, and apparently a hopeless aviator, was schooled at an institution which produced three much finer aviators, and all three from a different flying service to my man. My pilot, an actor, did not feature in any of the three films inspired by the three much finer pilots. Alex Guiness did though.
Lovely museum in Ashburton. Well worth a visit. I got a huge shock when walking into the hangar, to come face to face with a Harrier! Is it the only one in the Southern Hemisphere that’s not a pile of wreckage?
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Pre-dates Witchford by many years. I think WW2 passed by my field in terms of offensive ops from the location. It came to the notice of the Luftwaffe, and a prominent Irishman of the time reported it sunk.
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confused.com!