Rush Green
RUSH GREEN: Private airfield
Note: This picture (2018) was obtained from Google Earth ©
Operated by: Farm Aviation Ltd
1980s/1990s: Bowker Air Services Ltd
2000: Bowker Farm Services Ltd
2014: Rush Green Aviation
Manufacturing: It appears that Farm Aviation developed a single-seat agricultural conversion of the DHC.1 Chipmunk, (in the late 1950s?), then the ill-fated Owl Racer G-AYMS in early 1971. G-APOS was the first of five Chipmunk conversions known as the Chipmunk 23 and was first flown here on the 6th June 1958.
Location: On A600, E of B656, 3nm S of Hitchin
Period of operation: 1950s to -
Runway: 1990: 16/34 550 grass
2001: 16/34 550x10 grass 13/31 550x10 grass
2018: 16/34 590 grass
NOTES: Once a very active base for crop-spraying aircraft.
Note: Mr Graham Frost, a great friend of this 'Guide', found this picture of the Owl Racer OR65-2 on Wikipedia in June 2023. It was registered to Farm Aviation here on the 19th November 1970 and crashed into the River Thames at Greenwich on the 31st May 1971.
The aircraft in the background is, in the U.K. at least, an unique example on the British register? (Hold on a mo while I put my flak jacket on). It is, I think a IMCO (Intermountain Manufacturing Company) Callair B-1, G-AWPT, (ex- SE-EWA), built in Australia. It was registered to Shackleton Aviation from 16.09.68 until 03.07.69, when it was sold to Ethiopa as ET-ADE. Looks like Farm Aviation had given it a trial period whilst being rented/leased/chartered.
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