Yes it is worth a visit for a couple of hours. Some interesting aircraft, including the enormous Cody replica, and some well planned and informative displays.

The main source will be the squadron ORB’s held at the national archives at Kew. Many are available online, for a fee. Although these generally record serials, but not always codes and each operation carried out. You may find the odd website dedicated to some squadrons that contain this information.

Any ideas on the 3 fighters and a twin engined bomber in the background? Fighters appear radial engined so probably Fokker DXXI or Curtiss Hawk? Bomber might be a Dornier 17?

As Graham said there were services to the likes of the Scottish Isles, Scilly Isles and Isle of man but nowhere else. BOAC operated very limited overseas services(Ireland, Lisbon,Sweden and the US). Internal services were started in 1945 by those that operated the limited services but these were all merged into BEA in 1946. The RAF operated many scheduled services in 1945-6 pending the setting up of BEA as lend lease Dakotas could not be used on civil flights.

Saw the Ju52 flying over Farnborough around 11am at about 800ft making a lovely sound. Mrs asked what it was and when I said it was the aircraft that I shot off to White Waltham to see last Sunday she just gave me one of the looks!

Very interesting stuff, has anybody any general info in exhibited Bf109’s? I ask as a friend saw one in Camberley,Surrey around 1941 but have not found anything .

Great work from the RAFM, that is what they should be doing, not designing hideous buildings at hendon!

Photo from twitter https://twitter.com/highamnews/status/344153050837041153/photo/1

Great quote from RAFM twitter “We’ll have it flying in a week” says a delighted Darren Priday of the RAF Mus. Er, probably not. But smiles all round…”

All this delay is just crazy, just build the bl$%^dy runway at LHR. What nobody ever brings up is to move the UK main hub from LHR to Essex will involve closing west London. What are you going to do with the c100,000 jobs that depend on LHR? You are looking at large parts of the population of Slough, Hounslow, Feltham etc and further out into berks,Surrey,hants etc. I know many people in my area that have good jobs at LHR, what happerns to all those people?? There is also a nice clear area to the south of LHR next to the A30, put the 4th runway and terminal 6 there.

The people who did the report have clearly not visited Luton. Yes there are 50% of runway slots available but no stands as it is built on top of a hill and there is not enough room. Only Stansted has and real runway and terminal capacity but people my side of London will not use the airport due traffic on the M25. I will use Bournemouth and Southampton over STN.