Hello, Pitstop, Gooney Bird, bravo533, Rojread,

Thank you for posting further memories and the photo of Skegness Aerodrome…:)

Clive.:)

Thank you for posting the photos 🙂

…and for helping keep this thread alive 😉

As a little lad I used to keep an eye out for the Lincs Aerial Spraying Renault 4 vans, white with a red stripe and,….a sure clue that the Pawnee wasn’t far away….and often coming to treat the back field here too 😉

Thank you again for posting on,

C.

Hello SimonHart123

  Many thanks for adding you memories to this long standing thread…that I started way back in 2003.  🙂

 I used to visit the aerodrome as often as I could, spending some of my hard earned cash on flights to here and there…and had a good talking to one day by David to stop “messing”  about and do it properly..ie;  I was spending more funds on jollies here and there than if i buckled down in a PPL direction…which I did consider and bought the books. a few years later….but it was really for me at the time and escape from other things that were happening in life and I greatly enjoyed my flights, as passenger, to other local airfields in 150, 182 and the Austers 🙂   For the record my last flight, to date, was with, now sadly late, Peter Wilkes who I had met at Skegness in the latter days of the aerodrome…that flight was Stubton Park-Netherthorpe in banner tower G-BMUD and return Stubton in G-OTOW.

 Thank you again for adding to thread,

                                                         Clive.

I also missed seeing the post,  however only yesterday I was looking through the photos on this link

 https://www.austerclub.org/gallery/nggallery/2020/mavis-enderby-miller-…

G-AJEI and G-AHSO  appear in the photos..  🙂

C.

Brilliant 🙂  Thank you for persevering with getting the photos uploaded.  They include some of the aircraft that I mentioned in my opening post of this thread, now amazingly, over 16 years ago 🙂

They show the aerodrome just as I remember it in the days when I was an occasional, earth bound, visitor and when I first took a flight in a pleasure flight Auster.  My mum and my brother took a flight first as I was “chicken” but once I had a flight I became hooked for a number of years, purely as passenger, I add.  

  I think on my first flight we arranged a variation of the usual coastal run so that we could overfly my grandparent’s and aunt’s houses at Mumby and Anderby rather than a run purely along the coast.

 G-BCPK was once a concours prize winner but by the time I was more regularly visiting it was sadly looking rather tired and then had some time prop-less in the hangar……..

Another resident that came to mind today which was operated rather than owned? was GA-7 G-BOXR…I think?

I still really think that a book on Skegness needs collating and writing….. 🙂

Very many thanks for the photos,

                                             Clive. 🙂