Chichester additional flying sites
Note: This map only shows the position of Chichester within the UK.
CHICHESTER see also St RICHARD'S HOSPITAL
CHICHESTER: Seaplane Alighting Area
Location: In Chichester Harbour
NOTES: Shown on Admiralty chart 2050 in the 1930s
CHICHESTER: Temporary Landing Ground - not used
NOTES: Chichester was the planned 99th venue for Sir Alan Cobham’s 1929 Municipal Aerodrome Campaign. This Tour started in May and ended in October with one hundred and seven venues intended to be visited. Mostly in England, two were in South Wales and eight in Scotland. Due to a couple of crashes and other setbacks this tour needed to be rescheduled as it progressed. Resulting in Chichester being scratched.
Even so, Cobham did manage to visit 96 venues, which was of course a magnificent achievement.
The aircraft Cobham mostly used was the ten-seater de Havilland DH.61 'Giant Moth' G-AAEV, named 'Youth of Britain'. The schedule he set himself seems astonishing today, but he was a renowned workaholic. Well worth reading are his memoirs in 'A Time To Fly'.
Is the location used when Cobham’s No.2 Tour displayed in/near Chichester on the 27th April 1933 known?
CHICHESTER see also CHICHESTER/GOODWOOD and CHICHESTER/WESTHAMPNETT, (for WW1 and other periods of operation)
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