Hamsey Green Airfield And The Flying Gardners
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Hamsey Green Airfield was a private airfield owned by the Gardner family and open from 1933 to 1953. A list of aircraft based there at various times:
G-AATE Blackburn Bluebird - stored at Hamsey Green 1939/46. Scrapped c.1947.
G-ABTC Comper Swift - Charles Gardner 1935/38. Still exists.
G-ABYC Avro Cadet - Yardley Cosmetics 1932/33.
G-ACHL Miles Hawk - Southern Aircraft & Motors.
G-ACIC GAL Monospar - Richard Gardner 1934.
G-ACGO Percival Gull Four - C.T.F. Aviation 1938/39.
G-ACGP Percival Gull Four - Richard Gardner 1939.
G-ACRJ Leopard Moth - Richard Gardner 1934.
G-ADFA Percival Gull - Charles Gardner 1934/35.
G-ADDB BA Swallow - Southern Aircraft and Motors 1938/39.
G-ADFY DH Rapide - Charles Gardner 1935/36. Sold to Spain.
G-ADID BA Eagle - Charles Gardner 1938.
G-AEDW DH Dragonfly - HB Legge & Sons 1936/38.
G-AEJS BAC Drone - The Drone Syndicate - 1946/47. Last aircraft at Hamsey Green.
G-AEKL Percival Mew Gull - Charles Gardner 1936/38. Destroyed Lympne 1940.
G-AENY Beechcraft 17 - Charles Gardner 1936/37. Sold to Spain.
G-AEPX Taylor Experimental - Richard Taylor - Crashed January 1937.
G-AESJ Beechcraft 17 - Charles Gardner 1939 - Sold to Sidney Cotton.
G-AEUY Miles Whitney Straight - Richard Gardner 1936.
G-AFBW Percival Vega Gull - Jimmy Gardner 1937/39. Stolen.
G-AFFE Percival Q6 - HB Legge & Sons 1938/39.
G-AFFH Piper J2 Cub - Jimmy Gardner 1938/39. Still exists.
G-AFHC BA Swallow - Peter Mursell 1938/43. Still exists.
G-AFIT Percival Vega Gull - Jimmy Gardner 1938/39
G-AFKY Gipsy Moth - Southern Aircraft & Motors 1938.
Music: 'Honeysuckle' by Honeyroot
Maps: National Library Of Scotland
Photos: Air-Britain and others. Contact me if you want a specific credit added to the description.
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Compulsive watching as always
Thanks 👍🙂
Thank you for a most enjoyable channel.
My pleasure; I appreciate your support👍 plenty more films on the way.
As usual, an incredibly well produced historical video with equally incredible background research being done. Thank you, most enjoyable and please keep them coming!
Thank you!
Your videos deserve to be a lot more popular. They're really well researched and excellently presented, they make me nostalgic for a time that I didn't even live through.
Thank you for your kind thoughts; I’m not much bothered about popularity; would much prefer a dozen interested viewers than one hundred ambivalent. I too am nostalgic for my grandparents era.
Lovely film Nick much appreciated. Chris in Devon.
Thanks Chris, I enjoy researching and making these films.
Really appreciate these videos and especially these historical ones although with some ‘saudade’
Yes, a wonderful time sadly long gone.
Another most enjoyable record. Thanks Nick. I look forward to seeing those C3 floats in use one day!
Probably on that home made C2; it has the floats fittings attached already 👍
This is fantastic to see - local to me and I never knew of it, despite having played cricket there...!
Terrific, so pleased you enjoyed the film 🙂
Lovely , British-aviation history at its best . Cheers Rick. Ont Canada
Thanks Rick, more on the way.
Great stuff, Nick. Thank you.
I love the sports jackets and ties that were de rigeur in the photos from the 1930s. You couldn't go flying looking like a scruff :)
Yes, I'm going to have to tidy my act up!
@@FlyingForFunTrecanair😂 well I was thinking of myself actually!
Incidentally, do you still have your TST? It would be good to see a bit about that (they pretty much count as vintage I'd have thought)
@@martinwatson5438 Yes I do, am intending to use it in a film soon. A history film about a subject from WW1 but the TST happens to be useful. I flew it a couple of weeks ago.
@@FlyingForFunTrecanairGood stuff :)
Nick I so enjoyed this video. You are quite the researcher to get all this information. It’s sad for me to hear about the closure of any Airfield. I hope you get to use those Edo floats someday soon!
Thanks, it was an airfield I had wanted to research for the last 30 years.
Enjoyed that one….actually all of them…..Very nice that you have the floats with all the history attached to them. How is the C2 coming along?
Slowly 🤣
Great story & Channel. Well done.
Thank you!
Prove that you are really in is "I pump my head to them regurlarly." Future faith to my airsript too will be the Horse related.
Have you been drinking?
The English make aviation look so pastoral.
I think it was delightfully pastoral in the 20th Century. Ruined by tarmac and the beastly radio.
Brilliant. Clearly a lot of background research behind these aviation history gems. Oh what the inter-web could have been used for. Please keep producing them.
More on the way. This film took ages to research, and a big slice of luck!
Would love to see you do a video about what goes into finding all this history! Thank you for sharing and keeping the stories of the airfields and people surrounding them alive. @@FlyingForFunTrecanair
@@CAHelmer I've always read a lot and I spend hours researching old records and archives online. I also have an extensive library at home. Any film about my research would be a guaranteed cure for insomnia!
Ha. You’re too modest. The commentary in your head would win an Oscar. The history is great.@@FlyingForFunTrecanair
Very well produced video and a fascinating story.
Thanks 🙂
Fantastic! Thank you for your efforts, it’s a joy to watch your videos
@@dianeredlich The airfield at Hamsey Green is oft mentioned but, due to its private nature, little had been published. Quite a lot of what had been published turned out to be erroneous, generally because the two Richards (father and son) were frequently muddled up. Unravelling the tale took some effort but the end result was worth while. Thank you for your kind comment 🙂
These 'backwater histories' are clearly a labour of love given the likely size of audience. They also clearly represent countless hours of research and are both beautifully made and narrated. Those of us who've found your channel are very blessed!
@@Robutube1 Hamsey Green has been known to me to more than thirty years, I wanted to capture the story before it faded into history. Obscure is the sort of thing my channel revels in 🙂
Excellent, please keep them coming!
Lots more on the way. Hamsey Green was a bit special for me, I’d known of it for 30+ years but only recently found any detail.
I can't wait to see your Aeronca on floats!
The C2 has float fittings, I might use them on that eventually.
Thoroughly enjoyable - thanks!
My pleasure! I’ve known of Hamsey Green for 30+ years but several useful documents came my way recently and it was time to make a film 🙂
Excellent film, my friend!
Thank you Phil, you were the catalyst 👍
Your history shows are great fun to hear!!
Thank you 👍
Much enjoyed 😂 Mum and Dad
Praise indeed🤣
Thanks goes to you! :)
I’m pleased you enjoyed it 🙂
Mike Hawthorn Britains first ever F1 world champion lived in Farnham Surrey, he purchased and flew a Percival Vega Gull throughout the 1950's, Mike inherited a Fairchild Argus but sold it to someone in Australia, the Fairchild Argus survived and is now fully restored in Newzealand.
Thank you for the comment, I knew about the Gull but not the Argus. I've visited the grave of 'mon ami mate' in Farnham, he was quite a character.
I have copies of the registration log books for both of the aeroplanes, after Mike died the Gull was sold and shortly afterwards made an emergency landing at Kirby near Liverpool, the plane was apparently damaged beyond repair, Mike inherited the Fairchild Argus from his father Leslie who died in June1954, Leslie purchased the Fairchild in May 1947 and Mike sold it to Australia in September 1954
@@andrewholt9332 www.mike-hawthorn.org.uk/flying.php
Thank you for the information on that page, A WORD OF CAUTION- I have been doing an in depth research for the past 5 years into the life and history of Mike Hawthorn and his family and there is so much nonsense that is written both in books/Internet and also on the link that you have sent that is totally untrue and incorrect, I have driven thousands of miles on wild goose chases, but eventually I now have copies of all legal documents that clearly show the truth
Thank you for the information on that source page with the two planes, although these are the correct aeroplanes and information-
A WORD OF CAUTION-
I have been doing an in depth research for the past 5 years into the life and history of Mike Hawthorn and his family - there is so much nonsense that is written both in books/Internet and also on the link source site that you have sent to me that is totally untrue and incorrect, I have spent hundreds of hours on the internet and driven thousands of miles on wild goose chases, but eventually I now have copies of all legal documents that clearly show the truth about Mike and his family, how long ago did you visit Mikes Grave ? Did you notice Leslie's grave opposite ? I personally refurbished Leslie's grave 3rd August 2019 🙏
Floats on a C3, now there's a thought. Thanks again Nick.
Oddly enough the reconstructed C2 fuselage has float fittings. I wonder why that happened? I have a seaplane rating too!