I did try there a few years back, but they hadn’t heard anything about Stirling parts. I had been keen to visit Earls Colne as my grandfather had been based there at the end of the war (from Jan 45) when he was the Gunnery Leader with 296 Squadron.

However I was able to have a flying lesson at the airfield so I am now able to say I have flown out of one of my Grandfathers wartime bases! I have also flown into Stansted quite a few times, and its always interesting to think that my grandfathers aircraft was the first to “land” at the airport. if only they had waited until it had been finished.

Johnnie