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Hi Cookie If you see a red dayglo helicopter its usually the Eurocopter EC.135 "West Midlands Air-Ambulance Service" from Cosford, but quite often the "Warwickshire & Northampton Air Ambulance" Agusta A109 which is based at Coventry ( Baginton Airfield) follows the line of the Coventry Road on...

Hi Cookie Its all changed, progress they call it. No flying clubs, very few small private aircraft use the place because the charges are over the top. The only based aircraft are now the Police Helicopter and one twin engined business aircraft . The hangers are empty except for when "flybe"...

Hi Suze It was a good job that you saw the "old" terminal when you came into land as it still houses the main control tower and the people sitting in the top bit guided you in for a safe landing. The old terminal is still used apart from the control tower on top. All the business aircraft and...

Hi Astoness Seeing the offical opening date for Elmdon as being 8th July reminded me that it is rumoured that an Airbus A380 (thats the large one) is thought to be visiting for the 70 year anniversary on that date this year. Only a rumour but I've heard it from three sources one of which could...

The sign post with distance to each destination used to be at the entrance from the Coventry Road to the original terminal. An area of grass divided the in and out roadways and the sign post was in the centre. When the new terminal was built it moved across being re-erected in the square in...

Hi Cadeau I did click on the link you kindly posted and I have not been off it since ! believe it or not I am actually a member of Air Britain but never till now looked at the photo collection site. Over 170,000 photos , not bad and all fully indexed as you would expect from Air Britain. I do...

Thanks Cadeau for the pic. Brings back memories, though I don't think this is in the yellow colour scheme or at Elmdon ; do you ?

Hi Mal me again. I remember seeing a de Havilland Vampire that had been in outside storage for some time at I think the now defunct South Wales museum Cardiff. This had succumbed to the welsh weather and I was amazed to see that where the painted had peeled the fuselage was of plywood...

Further investigation into the identity of the Dragon Rapide used on the first scheduled service named " Volunteer" has revealed it to be G-ACPP Now there's a suprise. This aircraft was actually based at Elmdon ! between June 1948 and Sept 1950 and operated by "Yellow Air Taxis" I remember...

Hi Mal This was the first scheduled flight on 1st May 1939. The very first aircraft landed 20 March 1939 and was a DH.90 Dragonfly G-AEDH owned by Western Airways bringing in a chap named Whitney Straight who announced his intention to start up a regular service between Weston-super-Mare -...

Hi Allambrum and Rupert Re: Aerovan Saga - Miles M.57 Aerovan G-AJWI was operated by Lees-Hill Aviation on passenger and pleasure flights from Elmdon. They aquired the aircraft in June 1947 but sold it the following year in June (1948). It went to Israel and was never returned to the...