Sandy Lane
Note: This map gives only a general location. If anybody can be kind enough to provide a more exact position, this will be very welcome.
SANDY LANE: Private ‘aerodrome’
Operated by: Leicestershire Flying Pou Club
Location: Sandy Lane near or part of the later RAF MELTON MOWBRAY
Period of operation: 1936/37 only?
NOTES: On the 3rd May 1936 a small airshow for ultralight aircraft was arranged principally to raise funds by the LFPC for an engine for their own Mignet Pou du Ciel. Bernard Collins, (later to become CFI at Rearsby), flew the Flea G-AEEC from Heston, (87 miles), in around 2.5 hours setting a record for Flea flying in that era.
The ‘Pou’ Club couldn’t get their aircraft, G-AEHG, to fly properly, only managing one short hop and in July a Kronfeld Drone G-AEJS was delivered. It was then realised that the site wasn’t very safe as an aerodrome so they transferred to Rearsby as the County Flying Club in the spring of 1937. From another source it appears that two privately owned aircraft were also based here – the Pou-du-Ciel G-AEIO and the BAC/Kronfeld Drone G-ADMU.
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