What airfield is this?

Thanks very much for all of your feedback. Bovingdon is definitely feasible as my father had relatives in the area. Heathrow was also within easy reach for him.

But as for the Sabre on its nose (see enlargement below), I’m not so sure. It looks more like the Blessed Virgin Mary to me ! 😉

What airfield is this ?

I agree with Longshot and Daveg4otu that the first picture is Heathrow.
I remember very well the hangars in the background and personally saw the
Sikorsky S51 G-AJOV there when it first started doing proving flights for B.E.A.
This would have been about 1952. Later about the same period it used to do pilot training on the eastern side of LHR hovering for extended periods near to some cargo/mail sheds.

Also in the background for picture no.4, there appears to be a couple of Daks
visible which could add to the Bovingdon statement.

Yes – I’ll agree with that Longshot the LHR pic does match up.

am i the only one who has spotted this…. looks like a sabre on its nose….. any ideas….??

Can’t help with the DC-4/R5D airfield(s) but N90407, the DC-4 was the subject of a salvage by pontoon after crash landing on Hudson bay ice around 1955, photos by searching Hudson Bay Plane rescue source:life (in Google Images)

Air Aero 1920- source:life produces a view of the LHR Queens Building with the BOAC dark hangar trio in the distance looking due east from the 1954 tower

I think the top pic could be Heathrow ….shot from the ground enclosure about 1952 which partly lay on top of the closed RWY 28R (visible running behind S-51)…the dark hangars (3) used by BOAC for Constellations , running parallel to RWY23R (used by Eagle in the 60s)… on the top right maybe the BEA engineering base going up?

I’m with you on this theory of the top one being LHR too.

Not Hurn – the general look of the countryside is wrong(Pics 2 & 3) and the hangar layout is not right either (pic1)…..and it doesn’t look like early 50s LHR to me.

Here’s a view of Heathrow about 1952 (Google Life archive) from the early 50s Northside tower shot from 2-300 yards further north than the mystery top pic pointing about 10 degrees more easterly (their paste up in the middle, not mine! :)) you can see the trio of BOAC hangars running parallel to 23L …this photo from searching Air Aero 1920- source:life in Google images

the last photo is definately Bovingdon, look at the tower, kind of gives it away but I don’t know about the others.

Not Hurn – the general look of the countryside is wrong(Pics 2 & 3) and the hangar layout is not right either (pic1)…..and it doesn’t look like early 50s LHR to me.

I think the top pic could be Heathrow ….shot from the ground enclosure about 1952 which partly lay on top of the closed RWY 28R (visible running behind S-51)…the dark hangars (3) used by BOAC for Constellations , running parallel to RWY23R (used by Eagle in the 60s)… on the top right maybe the BEA engineering base going up?

These airfields are not my strong point and I would not normally offer a view, but this last one immediately struck me as Bovingdon also.

Mark

Never thought of Bovingdon. I think you’re right as it looks very much like the background to the B-17 beat-up in The War Lover.

I don’t think any are at Blackbushe,except perhaps the USAF, or maybe USN C-54/R5D that could be anywhere. Looking at the N reg DC-4 Im thinking Bovingdon, due to the USAF steps with XX Air Division on?

A very weak link i know, but the USAF and USN were regular visiters to Blackbushe.
FarnboroughRob on here would know if it is Blackbushe.

It is very hard to identify the A/F (or even A/Fs), I would have take a wild guess of Western Super Mare if you hadn’t said about it being SE.

I’m surprised nobody has identified the airfield yet. If it isn’t Hurn, it could be Blackbushe…

Flipped back!

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Moggy

So it has! Thanks, Moggy. It was one of the first I scanned and I hadn’t worked out which way was correct. I’m afraid these are the only reasonable aircraft photos among the negatives, although I’m hopeful that my mother has others “tidied away” somewhere.

I should have mentioned before that this is most likely to be in the south east of England, probably no further west than Oxford.

I hope the corrected image rings more bells now.

Hurn?

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Moggy

I hope you can share more of these please.

Mark.

Beaten to it by three………….!!!!

Planemike