Hi Graham: The aerodrome you visited was Skegness – Water Leisure Park. The Mag Men aircraft were based at the now disappeared Skegness – Ingoldmells aerodrome, little more than a couple of fields away opposite the Butlin’s holiday camp.

The Mynarski Memorial Lancaster, along with PA474, were safely tucked away in their hangar today with the Canadian crew busy giving the aircraft and its engines some TLC.

Anti-spin strakes are not mandatory for UK registered Tiger Moths. Take look around the aircraft park at Woburn in two weeks time.

Filming was carried out in Skegness and district and for those familiar with the local geography the scenes are quite evident in the film.

In particular some of the coastal scenes were filmed at Gibraltar Point, with its distinctive flat and relatively featureless desolation. Other scenes were filmed a little further inland, at Havenhouse, where distinctive features to be seen include the railway line and the meandering River Steeping.

Biffo: What a cracking set of pics from your Father. I’m sorry to hear of his passing.

It looks like the dykes around Skeggy were a magnet for Elstree-based aircraft. In later years I saw two or three Grumman AA5s from Elstree come to grief on the short runways, but I didn’t realise that the trend was started by the Elstree Chipmunks.

Lots and lots of stuff on fire tenders here:

http://www.airfieldinformationexchange.org/community/showthread.php?7917-Airfield-Fire-Crash-and-Emergency-Vehicles-Vol-2&highlight=Fire+tenders

Details of the Scampton fire service museum here:

http://www.rafanddfsa.co.uk/Museum.htm

You are on the wrong Forum – you need AiX:

http://www.airfieldinformationexchange.org/community/showthread.php?3306-SECOND-WORLD-WAR-AIR-MINISTRY-Drawing-Numbers

The pawnee’s design as an ag-bird will have done much to protect the pilot.