I think mine would be either at St Mawgan or Culdrose… ISTR being at Culdrose when the Sea Princes were being retired – I was only about 6 so the memories are vague to say the least! Oddly I remember not being allowed to go to the 1977 CU airshow as I had suffered concussion after falling off my Raleigh Tomahawk a few days before (no helmets in those days!) so I had to stay at home and sat in the front garden watching anything that flew over! I definitely remember the 1979 or 80 CU airshow as I saw my first A10 – two landed – and I shouted out to the pilot to get his autograph – Lt Col Bob Hill! I also got the autograph of the Shuttleworth Spitfire – an elderly gent called ‘R F “Dickie” Martin’  who was actually a decorated wartime RAF fighter pilot! Hard to believe now that back then, there were wartime pilots still flying!

My elderly father who has been watching aircraft all his life and has so many stories to tell – his earliest airshow memory was at RAF Predannack immediately after the war – his says he remembers a Lancaster ‘on the deck’ beating up the airfield! I’m sure there were lots of other interesting types there too…