Plymouth flying sites

Note: This map only shows the general position of Plymouth within the UK. 



PLYMOUTH see also CHELSON MEADOW

PLYMOUTH see also DRAKES VIEW
 

PLYMOUTH see also MOUNT BATTEN
 

PLYMOUTH see also PORTSDOWN HILL?

 

PLYMOUTH see also STONEHOUSE MARKET PLACE
 

 

PLYMOUTH: Temporary aerodrome?
 

NOTES: In May 1931 CD Barnard Air Tours used a site in/near Plymouth as a venue. Did they use ROBOROUGH or somewhere else? The same question applies to where, on the 26^th  August 1933 Cobham’s No.1 Tour displayed in/near Plymouth?

 

PLYMOUTH: Military seaplane base
 

Operated by: RNAS

Location:   Near Torpoint perhaps, or in Plymouth Sound?

Period of operation: 1916 to 1930s?
 

NOTES: In May 1919 a US Navy Curtiss ‘NC-4’ flying boat landed here, the sole survivor of three that set out, making it the first aircraft to fly across the Atlantic from West to East.  The voyage took twelve days and routed from Trepassey Bay in Newfoundland via the Azores and Lisbon.

1^st June 1926: Two RAF Supermarine Southampton flying boats apparenty departed from here (as distinct from MOUNT BATTEN) for the  first long-distance tour of the Mediterranean. They returned on the 30^th July.

 

PLYMOUTH AIRPORT see ROBOROUGH

 

 

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