Sandy Sproule has very kindly agreed to let me post his superb colour scan of the tower and assorted buildings at RNAS Ford during the mid 1950’s, seen here just behind his father’s SAR Dragonfly WP495 (now preserved at RAFM Cosford but sadly not in this scheme).

Incidentally Sandy’s father was Lt Cdr J S Sproule RN, who was instrumental in introducing the Search and Rescue role utilising the use of a helicopter together with the ‘Sproule net’ from Ford airfield.

Rob

As seen in a rather nice book on Fleet Air Arm Helicopters 😉