A memorial to the Air Transport Auxiliary will be unveiled in Hamble, Hampshire, at 13:00 on 10th July 2010, Junction of Aquila Way and Hamble Lane, Hamble SO31. There will be an ‘ATA / Aviation in Hamble’ exhibition and buffet reception 200 metres away in the Hamble Village Memorial Hall SO31 4JE directly after. The event is open to all free of charge (‘not sure if the ‘free’ bit includes the buffet).
If anyone has any interesting photos or information relating to the A.T.A or aviation in Hamble, that they would allow to be used at the exhibition, perhaps it could be uploaded here. I will forward a link of this thread to the organisers.
By: Tango Charlie - 11th May 2010 at 19:48
A.TA. Hamble
Proctor 3 LZ791 under rebuild is a former A.T.A aircraft based at Thame Haddenham. I have been in touch with a couple of the Thame based pilots who may have flown her, still looking for those elusive pool numbers that all Thame Proctors carried. Proctor flights nine times out of ten were logged with the aircrafts pool number rather then military serial,this is how over 75 Proctor flights from Thame were logged in one of the logs mentioned. I can also confirm that Hamble is listed in one of the logs. We have a nice section of fuselage side ply covering with her wartime roundel and part of the unit code showing, could bring this down if interested.
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May 11, 2010 at 7:08 pm