Would love to have come up there (your place is on reciprocals with mine) but I take it you know it’s on the same weekend as both Duxford and Waddington airshows?

It’s OK geting them in, it’s geting them out you have to think about! 900′ is doable if you wait for the wind etc but getting out is another question. A Pawnee would manage it with a ten knot headwind, half fuel and standard day (plus a not knackered donk and a pilot who knew what he was doing).

Plus you have to think about what if you don’t have a headwind and it’s 30C.

The only thing I can help you with there is the RAF serials which may not be what you are after. All of them are Mk6’s from a production batch of 100 built at Armstrong-Whitworth in Coventry.

XF522 was 92 Sqdn, crashed 11/1/58.

XF523 was 54 Sqdn, converted to FGA9, crashed 24/6/63.

XF524 was 111, 54 and 263 Sqdn, crashed 5/11/57.

Incidentally you may be interested in this http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1957.htm during the days when we seemed to be loosing a whole modern day Air Force worth of a/c in accidents each year.

By light, how light? You have about 270m or so of grass, you would get a 152 down with a skillful pilot but taking off on a hot, nil wind day two up would be another matter. Depends what the approaches are like either end as well, does it have trees, pylons etc?

If you’re interested Mike I kept a day by day account of my PPL training up to and including the skills test on Word. I did the JAR-PPL but I wouldn’t imagine there’s much difference.