Old Sarum airfield hangar - storm damage last week

[seaJane]

Seen in a local paper: https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/24071125.salisbury-city-council-committee-issues-statement-airfield-hangar/

[Fovant]

The future of Old Sarum has been in doubt for a while. Hopefully something can be salvaged from this disaster.

I flew in there a few years ago and after a cup of tea had a look around the WW1 hangars. In one of them an old gent was working on a small amphibian. He told me that it was a retirement project that he had designed and was slowly building. It turned out that he was Bill Goldfinch, who had also designed and helped to build the famous Colditz glider during WW2!

Sadly he never saw his amphibian fly. He died the day before its second taxi trial.

I was at school in Salisbury and can remember the trials of American helicopters at RAF Old Sarum in the 1960s. When I worked at North Weald Airfield we had a UH-1 Huey helicopter based there and the check pilot for the owner had flown them at Old Sarum as part of the trials – a small world.