Yet more great pictures. Keep up the good work 😀
Your Douglas Destroyers (B-66) are a mix…
40438 40543 and 4538 are indeed 10 TRW RB-66B’s
30504 4551 40459 are 47BW B-66B’s
30543 is another RB-66B but cannot see any unit markings…

Regards,
Paul

Chris,

You must be a youngster if you say the Saudi Register is HZ-XXX as back in the begining of time it was SA-XXX. Not much used but I have the following…

SA-AAA to AAE Bristol Freighter 21E
SA-R-1 C-47B
SA-R-2 & 3 C-47
SA-R-4 C-54E & Convair 340
SA-R-5 Beech D18S & Convair 340 & Heron 2
SA-R-6 Varsity T1 & DC-6B
SA-R-7 Comet 4C

Interestingly this same list also includes Caravelle III SA-DAE with c/n 56 but this was SE-DAE with SAS and HS-TGF with Thai so I think this is just a typo that has as usual been copied over and over around the web.

Regards,
Paul aka PalmTree1

I have not found anything on Richard Deterding but Henry’s grand-daughter Zoe has a webpage with a link to her e-mail so she might be worth contacting http://homepage.ntlworld.com/trevor.barker/zoe/deterding/introduction.htm

I have a little more info on the Gipsy Moth G-AAWS. It was c/n 1239 and crashed at Nursling 31.3.36. No idea if it was still owned by Henry at that time or if anyone was hurt. As far as I can find out Nursling is a village just NW of Southampton.

HTH

Paul

After a little searching, I have “found” the Messenger…

Messenger 2A c/n 6334 G-AHZT
CofA issued to H. Deterding, Sywell 19 Feb, 1947 as G-AHZT. To the Zeta Flying Group, Elstree in October 1967.

Paul

Hi Neil,

As someone that was often hanging around at Sywell in the 60s and 70s and who had family at Daventry I can fill in some information on Henry Deterding but cannot answer your main question!

Henry first became associated with Sywell around 1930 when both he and his wife learned to fly there. He bought Gypsy Moth G-AAWS in June 1930, initially based at Sywell until they built their own hangar at the farm strip at Newnham. At the end of 1931 Henry took over the running of the social club at Sywell. In WWII he served as a Lieutenant in the Fleet Air Arm flying a Swordfish from HMS Furious during the invasion of Norway in 1940. In 1945 he was as a Director of Sywell Aerodrome Ltd becoming Vice-Chairmain in 1952 and Chairman in 1960 until he resigned at the end of 1961.

As to later aircraft owned by Henry, I know that he had a Miles Messenger, blue and cream from memory, but I have forget the registration, and moved on to a Cessna later, G-ARAW sounds familiar though my source for a lot of this talks of a 172 not a 182…

And finally to give due credit, this information is mainly extracted from “Sywell: The story of an English Aerodrome 1928-1978” written by Christopher Paul.

HTH,
Paul