I imagine the RAFM has already considered this – otherwise it would surely have been moved recently when the Grahame-White hangar was relocated. As it is Listed, the onus is on the landowners to do something positive with it in future – in my experience, moving a Listed building to another location is rarely permitted unless there is a very good reason for justifying it.

The RS.1 Snargasher was built at New Malden, Surrey (factory site believed long since redeveloped) in 1938/39 and first flown by the late W/Cdr George Lowdell at Desford Aerodrome, Leics, on 11th May 1939. See Roy Bonser’s excellent 2001 book ‘Aviation in Leicestershire and Rutland’ (Midland Publishing Ltd, Hinckley. Leics) for more about Reid & Sigrist.

Did anyone go along to Dunsfold then? There’s a report in today’s Surrey Advertiser which has pics of an unidentified Spit and Dakota – and the piece says that F/Lt Chalrie Brown flew the Spitfire and that other wartime aircraft and vehicles were on the ground…….I wonder what the other aircraft were?

No problem! It has to be the pre-war Wolverhampton Airport (Fordhouses) near the Dowty Boulton Paul factory – nice photos though! Where did you get them and what date(s) are they? I never went there but believe the pre-war hangar and tower survived till about the same time as Heston’s!

If I remember correctly, the wonderful Heston tower was demolished around 1978/79 – a photo appeared in Aeroplane Monthly at the time. It certainly should have been Listed and would be now if it still survived. However the unique concrete hangar does survive there – I saw and photographed it again only last Summer.

Its serial number is R1914 and its last civil registration is G-AHUJ. I suspect it is still for sale and stored somewhere near Strathallan, but I’ll try and find out more.