Splott Foreshore
SPLOTT FORESHORE: Civil aerodrome (Almost certainly later aka PENGAM MOORS?)
Note: See PENGAM MOORS for more info.
Miltary user: WW2 RAF
Apparently a Maintenance base
Airline user: 1932: British Air Navigation
Location: Near Cardiff
Period of operation: Civil 1931 and 1932 certainly. Miltary from 1934 to 1954
Runway: It appears that in WW2 a hard runway was installed. 05/23 877x23 hard
NOTES: The 1931 itinerary of the C.D. Barnard Air Tours 1931 ‘Tour of the UK’ lists a visit, (27th to 28th June 1931), to the Splott Foreshore Aerodrome, Cardiff.
In June, (3rd to 11th), 1932 the Modern Airways, (The Crimson Fleet), ‘Tour of the UK’ also made a visit here.
In the 1939 Reading Aero Club airfield guide CARDIFF/SPLOT, (spelt with one ‘T’), was listed.
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