80th Anniversary fly in of Austers at Middle Wallop 07/4/18

[robaero]

Hi folks, had a drive down to the Auster 80th Anniversary event at Middle Wallop, here are some of the pictures of the ones that braved the weather. Enjoy.

1-IMG_4294-001 by Rob Stock, on Flickr

1-IMG_4289-001 by Rob Stock, on Flickr

1-IMG_4292-001 by Rob Stock, on Flickr

1-IMG_4299-001 by Rob Stock, on Flickr

1-IMG_4307-001 by Rob Stock, on Flickr

1-IMG_4312-001 by Rob Stock, on Flickr

1-IMG_4313-001 by Rob Stock, on Flickr

1-IMG_4314-001 by Rob Stock, on Flickr

[cheshireexile]

Like Rob I attended this event on the Saturday. Was slightly disappointed by the turnout - the event website listed over 50 Auster's for the fly-in on the Saturday plus about a dozen other aircraft (including Hawarden-based G-JDOG, which didn't make it). In the end I think 16 fly-ins were there ... well 17 if you included the Robin. I stayed until about 2pm, so not sure if there were any later arrivals. An organiser said they were keeping the field open until 3pm just in case.

I won't bother posting photo's ... they would just duplicate Rob's but I'll probably put them on flickr when I have sorted through them.

Here's a log of those that made it in ... plus a few extra's because I walked up to the main gate to get the 4 gate guards. There were several lynx visible outside the MPSU, I could only read off the one nearest the fence line and the C172 was also 'base-side' of the fence near the museum.

Reg'n	Aircraft Type	Operator		Notes
2-ALOU	Sud Aviation Alouette II AH.1	Private	***	Auster 80th Event (Static)
G-AHAO	Auster J/1	Private	***	Auster 80th Event (Fly-in)
G-AJYB	Auster 4	Private	***	Auster 80th Event (Fly-in)
G-AKSY	Auster 5	Private	***	Auster 80th Event (Fly-in)
G-ALBJ	Auster 5	Private	***	Auster 80th Event (Fly-in)
G-APBW	Auster 5	Private	***	Auster 80th Event (Fly-in)
G-APRO	Auster 6	Private	***	Auster 80th Event (Fly-in)
G-ARNP	Beagle A.109 Airedale	Private	***	Auster 80th Event (Fly-in)
G-ARUG	Auster J/5 Autocar	Private		Auster 80th Event (Fly-in)
G-ARUI	Auster 6 1	Private	***	Auster 80th Event (Fly-in)
G-ASAJ	Auster 6	Private	***	Auster 80th Event (Fly-in)
G-ATHU	Auster 6 1	Private	***	Auster 80th Event (Fly-in)
G-AWSW	Auster D.4/5/6	Private	***	Auster 80th Event (Fly-in)
G-BEAH	Auster J/2	Private	***	Auster 80th Event (Fly-in)
G-BNGE	Auster 6	Private	***	Auster 80th Event (Fly-in)
G-BURR	Auster AOP.9	Private	***	Auster 80th Event (Fly-in)
G-CEHR	Auster AOP.9	Private	***	Auster 80th Event (Fly-in)
G-CICN	Bell 47 G-3B-1	Historic Aircraft Flight Trust		Auster 80th Event (Static)
G-CICP	DHC-2 Beaver	Army Air Corps		Auster 80th Event (Static)
G-CICR	Auster AOP.9	Private		Auster 80th Event (Static)
G-KDOG	Scottish Aviation Bulldog T.1	Private		Auster 80th Event (Static)
G-OAFA	Cessna 172	Private	***
G-PERX	Aerospatiale Twin Squirrel / Fennec AS.355 NP	Heligroup Operations Ltd		Auster 80th Event (Static)
G-ROBN	Robin R.1180 T Aiglon	Private	***	Auster 80th Event (Fly-in)
G-SARO	Saunders-Roe Skeeter AOP.12		***	Auster 80th Event (Static)
G-UMBL	Guimbal Cabri G2	European Helicopter Importers Ltd		Auster 80th Event (Static)
XT638	Westland Scout AH.1	Army Air Corps	***
XT827	Bell 47 G-3B-1	Army Air Corps	***
XZ184	Westland Lynx AH.7	Army Air Corps	***
XZ346	Westland/Aerospatiale Gazelle SA.341 AH.1	Army Air Corps	***
ZG917	Westland Lynx AH.9A	Army Air Corps	***	Auster 80th Event (Static)
ZG921	Westland Lynx AH.9A	Army Air Corps	***	Outside MPSU

[planemike]

cheshireexile...... Thank you for the list. Which site listed the "booked in" aircraft?

[cheshireexile]

planemike ... The event website had page listing the expected aircraft for the event. As I type this the site / page is still there but who know how it will be up now the event is over. The address is:
www.auster80.co.uk/whats-on/aircraft


Oh ... and if anybody is interested the "Demobbed" site (http://www.demobbed.org.uk/locations.php?location=1878) includes the other Lynx that were outside the MPSU hanger, I think taken from a post on the Touchdown News forum a couple of weeks ago. As I said I could only read off one them so can't guarantee the rest were still there on Saturday but it seems likely.

[planemike]

cheshireexile................Thank you, still there. PM

[cheshireexile]

Finally got time to sort the photo's and push up to flickr. They can be found in Auster 80th Anniversary, Middle Wallop 07-Apr-18. There is basically one photo per attendee with a few 'extras'.