Allan Melmore's photos of RAF Kenley in the 1970's.

A Sedburgh glider inside the last of Kenley's original Belfast Truss hangars in 1974.

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RAF Kenley from the air. 1970's.

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Slingsby Cadet TX Mk.III

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Slingsby Cadet TX Mk.III

Allan Melmore

Slingsby T21 Sedburgh TX Mk.I, WB932 was away being smartened up as a spare glider for Prince Andrew's first glider solo when the last hangar burnt down. It was returned to 615VGS and made the first launch of the recommenced operation on 17/2/1980.

Kenley's Watch Office in the side of the last remaining Belfast Truss hangar.

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A Slingsby Cadet TX Mk.III.

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A Slingsby Cadet TX Mk.III in the last remaining original hangar at Kenley.

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This Control Caravan was lost in the hangar fire of 1978. Michael Tinkler remembers that the tannoy speaker on the roof was a re-purposed tannoy from the hangar.

Allan Melmore

We are very grateful to Allan Melmore for allowing us to share these photos which he took during the 1970’s when he was a Flight Staff Cadet with 615VGS.

Date of coverage

1970-1979

Contributor

Allan Melmore

Reference number

KRP0050

Keywords

615VGS (2)

Cadets (11)

Glider (7)

Format

Photographs (64)

Copyright

Allan Melmore

License

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC-BY-NC-ND)

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Thank you Allan, and well done everyone. I was in the ATC in the mid 70s (196 sqd Bloxwich) and it brought back happy memories. 🙂
By Mark Sutton (03/04/2020)

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