Hinton Admiral
HINTON ADMIRAL: Licensed civil aerodrome (Aka HINTON AERODROME, HIGHCLIFFE and MILTON)
Note: See also NAISH FARM
This is a very interesting case, and we have Mike Holder, a great friend of this 'Guide', to thank for both discovering it and doing the research. After WW1, as the country was struggling to get back on its knees, the advances in aviation pointed towards a very bright future, for those with both vision and enterprising ideas. Clearly these two Dutchmen certainly had the right ideas, but, were way, way ahead of their time.
Broadly speaking, perhaps (?), roughly ten or more years would elapse before such a grandiose scheme became viable? Indeed, in many ways, an aerodrome with a flying school, hotel, golf course etc, is very much an even more modern concept - take EARLS COLNE in Essex for example.
Location: E of Christchurch town centre, about 8.5nm ENE of Bournemouth town centre
Period of operation: Unknown? 1920 certainly, perhaps until 1921?
A MICHAEL T HOLDER GALLERY
Note: The list of licensed aerodromes was published in The Aeroplane on the 4th August 1920. The Notice was published in the Sheffield Evening Telegraph on the 7th April 1920.
The article, in three parts, was published in the Swanage Times Directory on the 14th February 1920.
The article was published in the Hampshire Advertiser on the 17th January 1920. The area view is from my Google Earth © derived database.
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