Upavon was and as far as I know still is the home of the Army Gliding Association’s Wyvern Gliding Club. A very friendly and welcoming band of brothers and sisters they were when I flew with them.

Yes, you’re right, still there.

http://www.army.mod.uk/sportandadventure/clubs/army_gliding_association/courses.htm

Amazing how difficult it is to find the address of a large company! Their solicitors are Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White of One Ropemaker St., London, EC2Y 9HS. Their e-mail is http://www.Howrey.com, good luck!

Looks like a popular airport for holiday makers.

http://www.gae.nl/index.cfm?language=en

Edit. This was a VLM flight from London City with 11 passengers and three crew, no injuries reported.

Yes, this is really sad news that Ryainair have decided to drop the route but yet again, if Ryanair can’t make the flight work then no airline can.:(

What, not even BetaTwo Airways?:D Do you know, it is a year and two days since Moggy C locked the last thread on that subject. Doesn’t time fly!

It can indeed. I only pointed it out as searching for ‘Hortholt’ would be somewhat fruitless. 😉

“Tell the passengers five more minutes, Caruthers.” 😀

There’s a lot of work there! Good luck.

Cheers,

Carruthers?

B***** hell, while writing this, a robin has just flown into my dining room and sat on the chair next to me and flown out again, amazing.
Sorry, that was awesome.

Fantastic, hope it wasn’t a Reliant or a Druine!

Only a few hours to go on this item, guess it didn’t fit in his kitchen!

There were an awful lot of accidents in 1954, 142 recorded as per the link, the accidents in Hertfordshire or Wiltshire seem closest to your description.

Addt. Welcome to the Forum!:)

http://aviation-safety.net/database/dblist.php?Year=1954&lang=&page=1