History of Langley Airfield, Sutton Lane, Bucks

[Chris]

As a footnote to this, I contacted Ian Ottaway, author of Fly With The Stars to ask what further details he might have about Langley.  Turns out there were no other materials apart from the map.  But he did drop this tantalising revelation into his email:

"I know there were one or two stories going around a few years ago
that there was some kind of underground storage which BSAA used at Langley
and that when they left, all sorts of stuff was simply left there including
aircraft spares and even engineer's overalls hanging on pegs! Whether there
was any truth in that rumour I don't know but if there was I guess it was
all filled in with concrete when Ford took over the site. Nice to think that
there may be one or two Merlin's underground near your house though eh?!"

So whose up for a weekend trip around Langley with a metal detector 

[hurricane]

On the subject of the history of Langley Airfield Wikipedia  has a precise paragraph under "Langley".  The last Hurricane out of the old  Hawker factory is apparently the one in the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.

[Russ]

Thanks for the info hurricane. For anyone interested the Wikipedia info can be found here.

Sad to say this site with such an industrial past is now home to a housing estate and Royal Mail warehouse.

[Swale]

Thanks for the info hurricane. For anyone interested the Wikipedia info can be found here.

Sad to say this site with such an industrial past is now home to a housing estate and Royal Mail warehouse.

Yes its sad sooo much industrial genius used to come fromthe uk.....now so much has gone abroad.