St Albans flying sites
Note: This map shows the position of the 1930s St JULIANS aerodrome
St ALBANS see also PLAISTOWS FARM
St ALBANS see also SANDRIDGE
St ALBANS see also St JULIANS
St ALBANS: Temporary aerodrome?
NOTES: Used by the Berkshire Aviation Co in May 1921. Can anybody kindly offer advice about the location of this venue?
LATER VISITS
St ALBANS (St JULIAN'S) was the planned 80th venue for the 1929 Sir Alan Cobham's Municipal Aerodrome Campaign. This Tour started in May and ended in October with one hundred and seven venues scheduled to be visited. Mostly in England two venues were in South Wales and eight in Scotland. Due to a couple of crashes and other setbacks, this became the 84th venue - visited on the 19th September. Eventually Cobham visited 96 venues, which was of course, still a magnificent achievement.
The aircraft Cobham mostly used for this Tour was the ten-seater de Havilland DH61 'Giant Moth' G-AAEV named 'Youth of Britain'. The schedule he set himself seems astonishing today. Quite why the Cobham team decided that St Albans would be a suitable site to visit will, probably, remain a mystery.
On the 24th May 1933 Sir Alan Cobham’s No.1 Tour visited St Albans. See seperate listing for St JULIANS.
St ALBANS AERODROME: Civil aerodrome
See seperate listing for St JULIANS
NOTES: St JULIANS opened in January 1933, but clearly another or perhaps several Landing Grounds existed in or around St Albans. Any advice will be much appreciated.
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