Location help

Mudmover – The harvest time tie would be about right as it would have been an august summer holiday.

G-APDK – Thanks for the info on the stearman, the date would suggest then it was 1992, can anone confirm for sure?

I have been told the Bantam could be ZK-FOI.

Thanks again

Now that the location is sorted I can help only with the Stearman.
This was N75664 c/n 75-5386 which UK based at Effingham Licestershire from1992 until 1997 when it moved to Germany. It was rebuilt and is now registered as OE-AWW (see attached picture from Tannheim last year)

G-APDK

I recall when Chris Gurney had his early Fly-ins at Northrepps they were tied in with harvest time to allow the additional a/c parking space for visitors,so I would agree with the location as being adjacent.

It certainly seems to tie in with village and the goalposts in the background.

I think we have Identified the site now, Probably the field immediately to the west of Northrepps Airfield
http://wikimapia.org/#lat=52.9014734&lon=1.3272858&z=16&l=0&m=a&v=2

I don’t suppose anyone would know the exact date and event?

Thanks for the help so far folks. I don’t remember there being a hangar there at all. IIRC the aircraft were taking off on the field and there was no perminant runway.

It doesn’t look like Swanton Morley because there was no standing crop on the field, just grass. Jim’s strip on the Worthing side of the airfield by the T2didn’t come into existence until 1996 when the Army moved on to the airfield site and flying from the RAF airfield site ceased that autumn. The background photo of G-TEMP looks a little bit like the old airstrip Northrepps with the houses of the village in the background but couldn’t be 100% certain. The site does look familiar though.

The Stearman looks like the 450 hp example that was operated by someone out near Spanhoe. It did visit Swanton Morley occasionally and was unusual in having an aluminium skinned fuselage. Can’t help with the registration though, it was probably American registered as it was not a ‘standard’ aeroplane.

Chris

That sounds like where Jim Avis used to operate from before they got the other strip outside the Army set-up… I could be wrong tho!

The only thing I remember about the location was the field was right next to a lane and we drove in through what was like a farmers gate. The fields were recently cut for straw as you can see in the photos.

Northrepps ? near Cromer

Looks like Swanton Morley to me!