British Car Auctions Frimley
BRITISH CAR AUCTIONS: Private company helipad
These two pictures are from my Google Earth © derived database.
Operated by: British Car Auctions (Aviation) Ltd
Location: Just S of junction 4 on the M3 and just W of Frimley town centre
Period of operation: Not known exactly, early 1980s certainly
NOTES: We have Mr Graham Frost, a great friend of this 'Guide', for pointing out this location. British Car Auctions used this site before making the move to a much larger site on the western end of BLACKBUSHE. So far I have been unable to pinpoint the location exactly, but it doesn't much matter. The object of this 'Guide' is to record the existence of flying sites within the UK.
This picture of G-TBCA was taken at SANDOWN PARK by Graham Frost with his very basic point-and-shoot camera.
What is more important in many ways, is gaining background information to support the evidence. In this respect Graham tells us that G-TBCA was based here, or at least used the helipad frequently. This was the Bell 206L Longranger first registered in the USA as N64689 and when imported then got G-BFAL as its first registration.
When British Car Auctions acquired it, they had it re-registered as G-TBCA in September 1980 and operated it from 09.04.80 until 08.03.84. It was then re-registered as G-OLDN.
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