Canvey
Notes: This map only gives the location within the UK. If anybody can provide more accurate positions for the flying site (or sites) this will be much appreciated.
CANVEY: Seasonal ‘joy-ride’ site (also called CANVEY ISLAND)
Operated by: Mr W G Pudney, Brooklands School of Flying, British Flying and Motor Services and the Cornwall Aviation Company
Note: Here is a picture from A.J. Jackson scanned from the book Cornwall Aviation Company by Ted Chapman published in 1979. It shows two of their Avro 504Ks, G-EBIZ and G-EBNR ready for 'joy-riding' duties.
Location (s): ?
Period of operation: 1923 to 1935 only?
NOTES: It appears that a Mr Pudney was operating an Avro 504K for ‘pleasure flights’ or ‘joy-rides’ in ESSEX during 1923 at least. Were all the above mentioned visitors to the area operating from the same site?
To try and describe what was going on in the U.K. during the 1920s and 30s is a mammoth task. Although I can find but the barest mentions of CANVEY today I suspect that in it’s day it might well have been a well known airfield. Why else is the story told of the RAF’s unique Fokker F.VIIB/3m fitted with an experimental Monospar wing serving duty as a coffee stall on the airfield in the mid 1930s at least?
It appears that when the Brooklands School of Flying were using the site during July and August 1928 they were operating Avro 548s.
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