The Tempest should be from 228 OCU at Stradishall, the unit was one of the main Meteor OCU’s with presumable some attached TT Tempests. The aircraft eneded at at International Alloys Aylesbury c1958.

Been to TFN several times, always lovely weather at TFS, always awful at TFN!
SBA used to operate YV- DC-10-30’s on Fridays but its been the 767 for the last couple of years. The Viscount was still there a year ago it’s been moved down to the Aeroclub end. There was talk of preserving it as a cafe.
Sadly had to forgo my yearly week in February on the end of the runway at TFS as the apartment is fully booked!!!

The Mitchell is probably Boston BZ220 13/9/43 – Engine caught fire; wing hit tree in forced landing, overturned ½ mile East of Everley, Hants. F/Lt T.D.B. BLAKE , F/O F.W. EASTON and Sgt A.H. LACEY .

Spitfire may be PA902 of 16 sqn on 28/3/44 ‘engine failed while in circuit not fatal’.

Not sure of the Mosquito as the accidents I know of were on airfield. Of course it could have been from a non based squadron. Will dig a little more later.

Rob

Out of interest my ‘aerodata’ database lists 9223 types (sub types not included) and 1.7mil individual aircraft. The number of one offs built in the US alone must exceed 1000.

N39TW was a regular at Blackbushe. IIRC it was based at Kidlington and visited Blackbushe for maintenance, think they did quite a bit of maintenance on it! Was surprised to see this at the Pima Air Museum a couple of years ago as N39TU.

Very interesting thread. I guess my family were some of the lucky ones born around 1900, too young for WW1 and almost too old for WW2.

Granddad (mums side) reserved occupation in WW2 as railway engineer, joined home guard
Granddad (dads side) not talked about in the family so unknown!!

Dad born 1939 bombed out of London to Reading. Was last of National Service intake with RAF, mainly at Benson.

Mums two oldest sisters worked on minor aircraft production in part of the Reading Spitfire production group.

On mums side my uncle’s (by marriage) brother was killed in Italy in 1944 with serving IIRC the Welsh Guards.

I do remember a net door neighbor when I was growing up (late 70’s) was ex Royal Artillery and was in the Somme. He was almost completely deaf and aged 80+ and really scared me, his wife was very kind though.

Alsost forgot the faimily “uncle Albert”, my farther in-law ! He joined the RN straight from school in 1947 and served as a stoker until the late 50’s. He served in Korea on HMS Ocean and on several destroyers.

There is a certain irony about the Cosford store. Last month I joined one of the DCAE enthusiasts tours. We took in all the GI airframes with a H&S brief to just not trip over anything and look where we were going. Many of the Jaguars were still very much alive but we were allowed total access.We were even driven across to the ‘far ‘ side to view some abandoned Jet Provosts. IIRC these are next to the RAFM storage hangars. I inquired of the guide about these hangars and was told they had never seen anybody there, didn’t even know there were any aircraft in them!
Crazy that the RAF will let people wander around Cosford and Shawbury with aircraft worth billions but the Ventura etc never see the light of day.