Surely not:confused: You’ve got a long approach from the North East over open ground to the racecourse and out over the fishing ponds and shopping on the former Doncaster Airport and nature reserve on the other side of the road. Granted a Vulcan might raise some eyebrows but a small airshow to mark the event would be highly significant.

And when talking about the history of flying at Doncaster, remind your PR people not to skip straight from RAF Doncaster to Aeroventure – I learnt to fly there at the old Doncaster Aero Club. I used to push aircraft around, chase horses off the runway and repainted the crash truck with a large tin of red Dulux paint so I could be paid in flying hours. Happy Days. 🙂 I doubt you’ll get anybody who can remember 1909 but there will be plenty who can reminisce about the 1980s. Trouble was that even then they were in a protracted battle with the council who wanted the site for – well all the stuff that’s there now really. So now Finningley is called Doncaster (Well Robin Hood:rolleyes: ) but we know where the real Doncaster airport was.

BTW – I work in PR and we’re paid to be positive, but do keep pushing your team hard to make sure things actually happen as well. I’d hope you can get a small flying display but at least a nice mix of static aircraft/cockpits brought in by road – that exhibition hall will take a fair bit of filling.

Good luck with it and keep us up to date with the plans

I agree with what you say about the NE approach, but I don’t know what the current CAA & local flying restrictions/regulations are for the area.

YES I WOULD LOVE TO SEE A FLY-IN!It would be fantastic to see a line up starting with shuttleworth’s Bleriot & Boxkite,going through to modern.If is was acheived it would have to be limited to perhaps 10-40(my own figures)single and smaller twin engine aircraft.

I must stress the idea is very much in the early stages & needs your support(from individuals to preservation groups & museums)so I have the evidence to take to various organisations to help raise awareness & funding.

In the past at Finningley & through to the Waddington airshow South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum/Aeroventure has increased BAPC awareness by getting nearby museums to put on displays as a BAPC collective whilst retaining individual group indentity at the venues.

I would like to do something on a similar vein,but on a more national scale-call it a one off,temporary air museum,involving ALLBAPC member groups.I just need some ideas of how to go about getting there.

The UK’s first Air Display (“Aviation Meeting”) held 15th – 23rd October at the racecourse, just across the road from what became RAF Doncaster and, latterly, Doncaster’s air museum AeroVenture.
I agree, this is a milestone that’s worthy of celebration but what sort of display are you thinking of, an exhibition of memorabilia, a static aircraft display or an airshow/fly-in?

Somthing on those lines,but the fly-in would be a no-go due to too many houses in the area(pity really-it would have been fantastic).

The racecourse has a large exhibition hall & lots of grass areas to play with+ their PR team are pretty positive about doing somthing.No doubt it will be down to funding in the end as to if & what is staged.