I feel the same way about Hatfield! It seems to be the curse of Aircraft Factorys. People will drone on endlessly about a grass strip that saw 6 months of use in World War Two and nothing for ground breaking Factorys! Never mind…

I couldn’t agree more.

as a youngster I can recall seeing a few Tridents flying but mostly BAE 146’s

I get the general impression that this country is ashamed of its past achievements.

Hello all

With the potential addition of 3 airworthy european based FW190 A’s this summer (Dijion, Bremgarten and fighter factory) what are the chances of the Uk based example finally taking to the skies?

What a summer that would be…..

I would appear that ‘Aircraft Restoration Company’ is trying to get their FW190 certified to fly.

http://www.arc-duxford.co.uk/fw190.htm

I can’t wait.

Thanks everyone for a really interesting thread.
This is my first posting and I signed up on the basis of this thread.

I have learn’t more in this thread than I ever knew.

I only recently learn’t where the Manor Road site existed ( I thought it was a completely different site).

It is a great shame that only the hanger and control tower (and a few other buildings) exist today.
The Hatfield site achieved so much with great people and yet we only have a few road names to remember this by.

The Comet springs to mind for a start.

I wonder what is going to happen to the south-west side of the site.
It would be nice if the Dehavilland Museum (near St. Albans) should set up site in this section.

I know that it would not happen as it would appear that this country is ashamed of its aero heritage.

Some previous posters have commented at moving to the Stevenage site ( now BAE I believe), what happened there ?

If anyone has more pictures / stories, please post.
This is really interesting.