Barnstaple flying sites
Note: This map simply shows the site of Barnstaple town within the UK.
BARNSTAPLE see also BRIGHTLYCOTT
BARNSTAPLE see also CHIVENOR (CHIVENOR FARM, HEATON COURT & NORTH DEVON AERODROME)
BARNSTAPLE see also HALMPSTONE MANOR
BARNSTAPLE see also Mr COPP’S FIELD
BARNSTAPLE see also NORTH DEVON DISTRICT HOSPITAL
BARNSTAPLE see also POTTINGTON
BARNSTAPLE: FLYING CIRCUS VENUES
Operated by: Berkshire Aviation Ltd
Location: Braunton Road, Barnstaple
Period of operation: June 1922
NOTES:: Venue for Alan Cobham’s 1934 Tour of the UK (1st August 1934) but the address is simply ‘AERODROME Barnstaple’. This was, without too much doubt CHIVENOR FARM, (BARNSTAPLE and NORTH DEVON AERODROME), and also known as HEANTON COURT
BARNSTAPLE: Civil regional airport
(see also the site known variously as HEANTON COURT, BARNSTAPLE and NORTH DEVON AERODROME, CHIVENOR FARM and CHIVENOR)
British airline users: Pre 1940: R T Boyd & T W J Nash (Operating a D.H. Dragon G-ACCR to LUNDY ISLAND)
Post 1945: Cambrian Air Services
Location: Presumably the same as RAF CHIVENOR?
Period of operation: 1934 to ?
NOTES: In June 1934 R T Boyd and T W J Nash started a service to LUNDY with a Monospar. Probably replaced with a DH Dragon?
BARNSTAPLE: Military airstrip
Military users: US Army Air Corps
US Army 58th Armoured Field Artillery Battalion (Piper L-4 Grasshoppers)
Location: Apparently a site E of Barnstaple
Period of operation: About 1943/45 only?
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