RAF St Athan Closure Parade
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- In my spare time I am part of the RAF Reserves with 4624 Squadron RAuxAF. I live in South Wales and was part of the recent closure ceremony for RAF St Athan, the relocation of No4SoTT and a celebration of 85 years of the RAF in South Wales. Whilst a sad day, it was also great to celebrate the success of the RAF family here.
Even with the RAF Station closing there are many RAF units to continue to fly the flag for the RAF in South Wales:
The Royal Air Force Air Cadets of No1 and No3 Welsh Wings (I also volunteer as a service helper at 2300 St Ahan Squadron RAF Air Cadets)
614 Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force based in Cardiff
Universities of Wales Air Squadron on the former RAF St Athan Airfield
The Royal Air Forces Association Branches of Barry and the Vale and Llandaff and Ely
South Wales Aviation Museum on the former RAF St Athan Picketston Site of the Paint Shops
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What a pathetically small ceremony and parade for a place which has so much history and was so important.
Completely agree.
Non serving members haven't been able to access the site for years and that includes former serving personnel (only current active live military service and their families).
Where have all the Royal Air Force Stations gone, long time passing. ⌛ I remember it well and lots of other R.A.F. Stations are no more. Arr. those were the days, bed 🛌 packs and shiny boots. Lots of memories.
How sad..... I did my Eng Mech(T) Trade Training there starting January 1955, remember out of the Blue the S.W.O.(a disciplinarian) sprung a Working Parade on us.... I got three days Jankers for a dirty Beret Badge, with 23 visits to the Guard Room when the Snow Drops buggered us around something wicked, But the training was first class mostly by Civilians.... Did not have time to roam around South Wales.
Are there any R.A.F. Bases left in the U.K. ... ? . I have lived in Aus since 1982.
My dad was there for 12 years. The flypast should have been so much better, and the parade after what the base has done for the raf and other air forces. Plus considering it was the largest military base in Europe in ww2. THANK YOU RAF ST ATHAN
My Dad was there in 1939 prior to WW2 at 4 Tecnical Training School.
End of an era!
Definitely!........Just like the closure of all the other airbases with their ghosts and memories! Great times lost forever!
It sure is
@@Wtf0069 And all because of government (both sides) pissing money up the wall and the usual short sighted mentality of the MOD.
Superb video..
My Alma Mater! 1962 47th Entry. Pity there wasn't a flypast of Blackburn Beverleys! (RAF Abingdon)
I was in morsehead block right opposite the start of the runway, if I wasn't doing anything that weekend I'd put chairs outside of the block and just watch, in quite close proximity, all different kinds of aircraft coming in. 1987, good memories.
Had my Driving Course and subsequent Full Driving Licence from there, have fond memories of the Rhondda Valley Commandos at the Thursday night Airman's NAAFI Disco back in 1981!
I imagine tht there will be a lot of people with fond memories of St Athan. I hve been round it sine 93 til present
And another one bites the dust.
Should be noted that South Wales Aviation Museum is not an RAF unit.
Sad times, spent 7 years at Saints on crash and smash.
Is that Brownsdon Rice block in the background?
When did this happen? My Father was at St Athan as a serving airforceman. I get the felling this lowkey parade was done on purpose due to "other functioning personnel" remaining on-site. so no local public airshow or anything. That said its been like this for years see RAF Lakenheath since est 2001. Also there hasn't been an airstrip or control tower at St AThan for some years now as it got dug up and demolished.
There certainly is an 'airstrip' and ATC tower at St Athan Airfield. Although no longer an RAF unit there are a number of civilian enterprises on the site that use it. See Google Earth.
@@micklobb4957 I stand corrected. I guess my tour guide failed to mention the landing strip had been handed to the civilian contractors side. I did wonder how British Airways got those large jumbos for decomissioning. Thanks youtube for not alerting me to this message.
Yes so sad another RAF station closed because the airforce is so small . I was there in 1955 as a boy entrant ( 24th entry engines ) and then onto some good postings Australia ,Gib ,Bassingbourn, Swinderby , and Straderfield with clapped out nav training a/c ,so then I went on to BEA as it was in those days ,A/c Engine overhaul and then on to British airways until retirement . But I didnt look back because the training in the RAF was good ,but the bull was silly and I couldnt wait to be out and use my talents as an engineer with less nonsense. But as we all know the writing is on the wall and we must train up a lot more skilled personel of all trades and reopen some of the RAF stations (care and mainentance ) RGDS to all ex RAF guys and gals of the future ,
More houses in the area with insufficient access roads 😢