Perton Court
PERTON COURT: Temporary aerodrome, previously WW1 aerodrome
(NOTE: See RAF PERTON for more WW1 information)
A MICHAEL T HOLDER GALLERY
Note: The second item was published in the Walsall Observer and South Staffordshire Chronicle on the 22nd June 1929
Note: The fifth item, a picture, was published in the Staffordshire Sentinel on the 24th June 1929. I have added the last area picture from my Google Earth © database.
Operated by: Sir Alan Cobham's Municipal Aerodrome Campaign in 1929
Sir Alan Cobham’s 1935 Tour of the UK
Location: Just SW of the WW2 RAF PERTON aerodrome, roughly just SW of Tettenhall and about 3nm W of Wolverhampton town centre
Period of operation: First visit 22nd June 1929, later visit, 6th June 1935
NOTES: Several years ago I made this note: "See also the WW1/WW2 airfield listed in STAFFORDSHIRE as this could well be the same location? Quite often, but not always, the Cobham Tours used convenient disused WW1 airfield sites. Presumably the fee for using a particular site was the deciding factor?" As Mike Holder, a great friend of this 'Guide' has discovered, the actual site was just south west of the WW2 airfield.
This was the 22nd venue for Sir Alan Cobham's Municipal Aerodrome Campaign Tour in 1929. Initially planned to visit 105 venues, he eventually managed to visit 97. A quite magnificent achievement even so. The aircraft he mostly used was the DH61 'Giant Moth' G-AAEV, named 'Youth of Britain', but he did have a couple of crashes needing major repairs, but with fortunately nobody hurt.
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