RAF Worthy Down

Thanks, good thing you told me 🙂

Hi DCK

Please check your PM’s.

Paul F

WARNING…….Thread Drift,

My Dad flew from Worthy Down during 1946 when an instructor with Southhampton UAS.

Hello Paul.

Could you give it a check for me?

Hi DCK,

Sorry, missed your post last night. I will look at all 3 tonight/over the weekend and get back to you – are you looking for detail of anything in particular, or just general background/history?

Cheers
Paul F

Depends on what you’re looking for, but have you tried the National Archives?

Yes, but no immediate success. Its the test flying I’m after, any kind of records of the pilots test flying the Spitfires and so on. If any records available. Yeovilton is quite far away when you live in Norway and visit the UK three times a year 🙂

DCK, I presume you’ve had a look at the relevant volumes from the “Actions Stations” and “Action Stations Revisited” series of books, and also at “Hampshire Airfields in the Second World War”?

I assume there are entries for Worth Down in all three books, though they are probably fairly superficial given the nature of each book series. Let me know if you want me to check my copies of each when I get home tonight.

Paul F

Hello Paul.

No I have not actually. Could you give it a check for me?

DCK, I presume you’ve had a look at the relevant volumes from the “Actions Stations” and “Action Stations Revisited” series of books, and also at “Hampshire Airfields in the Second World War”?

I assume there are entries for Worth Down in all three books, though they are probably fairly superficial given the nature of each book series. Let me know if you want me to check my copies of each when I get home tonight.

Paul F

Might be worth trying FAA archives at Yeovilton the TAG school used a large fleet of Proctors here from 1942.

Depends on what you’re looking for, but have you tried the National Archives?