I’m trying to identify, and hopefully make contact with, a number of former RNAS Culdrose personnel. They were serving personnel as at July 1969 and were involved in the transportation of a vintage aircraft (SEAFIRE FR.47 ‘VP441’) from Culdrose to Lavenham Airfield in Suffolk on board a ‘Queen Mary’ trailer.
On arrival at Lavenham these chaps were largely responsible for the full re-assembly of this aircraft on the airfield, on behalf of the ‘Reflectaire Aviation Museum’.
I’m anxious to trace any member of that RNAS crew as we’re arranging a reunion of people who had any connection with this (and other) aircraft.
IF ANYONE ON THIS FORUM CAN IDENTIFY AND / OR GIVE ANY CONTACT DETAILS I’D BE VERY GRATEFUL AS THESE CHAPS PLAYED AN IMPORTANT PART IN THE PRESERVATION OF THIS HISTORIC AIRCRAFT AND I’D LOVE TO
EXTEND A WARM WELCOME TO THEM AT THE PROPOSED REUNION.
May I point you to the ‘Forum’ thread which gives full details of the reunion
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=39098 and I hope we get a good response.
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Cheers
Richard Taylor
By: Suggs - 24th March 2005 at 17:01
Richard,
The best place to post this is on www.pprune.org on the military aviation forum. I dare say some of those guys may even be skulking about there!
Suggs
By: R J A Taylor - 20th March 2005 at 14:16
CALLING EX-RNAS CULDROSE AND EX-RN ‘MATSU’ LEE ON SOLENT (1969) PERSONNEL
SINCE POSTING THIS THREAD I’VE BEEN SEARCHING MY PERSONAL RECORDS OF THE TIME (1969) AGAIN AND IT SEEMS LIKELY THAT THE RN CREW WHO TRANSPORTED AND RE-ASSEMBLED THE SEAFIRE AT LAVENHAM, SUFFOLK IN JULY 1969 MAY NOT HAVE BEEN FROM RNAS CULDROSE BUT ACTUALLY FROM:
ROYAL NAVY’s “MATSU”,(OR “MARTSU”) BASED AT LEE ON SOLENT, HAMPSHIRE (AT THAT TIME)
CAN ANYONE WITH MORE KNOWLEDGEABLE INFORMATION ON THAT ‘UNIT’ PLEASE HELP ME OUT. :confused:
What exactly was a ‘MATSU’ ? Was it ‘Maintenance and Transport Support Unit’, or what? (I’m purely guessing here!!!!!).
(NOTE: I’ve since been advised that it’s correct title is “Mobile Aircraft Repair, Transport and Salvage Unit” (or ‘MARTSU’)
Can’t seem to find any ‘historical’ information on this unit on searching the Royal Navy / Fleet Air Arm websites
ANY INFORMATION ON THIS WILL BE OF GREAT HELP IN TRYING TO TRACE THESE PEOPLE.
MANY THANKS
Richard
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March 19, 2005 at 5:02 pm