all photos from Malcolm Hemming except where stated
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Blackbushe Tower 1948
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Blackbushe Flight Clearance 1948
LK2a Backbushe VCR Control Desk (A unit control desk Mk 4) January 1959 – Les Tranter
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Assistant position
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AFISO position
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Harry Hogben, Blackbushe MTCA ATCO
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LK12 photo via Barry Davidson.
RAF Avro Lancaster, PD328 “Aries”, Blackbushe, August 1946
LK13 a later tower (which now – 2016 – is much changed and updated), photo via Barry Davidson
LK13b Short Sealand possibly VR-UDV of Shell Oil at Blackbushe in September 1954
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LK14 aerial photo via Barry Davidson
LK15 next few photos from Malcolm Hemming
LK16 the panel and VCR interior looking a little faded so
LK17 a temporary tower solution in order to build a new tower
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LK20 we’re indebted to David Hill, the Ballykelly and Shackleton guy to go to at the Ulster Aviation Society who says that its Blackbushe in 1958. That airfield was used for customs clearing when Shacks came in from overseas prior to returning to their home base. It was also the departure point for Shacks transporting troops to the Middle East during the Suez crisis in 1956. The Shackleton is a MR II coded Q/38.
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LK22 RAF HASTINGS C1 TG 557 OF 36 SQUADRON
LK23 WASAYA Cessna Caravan
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LK17 is a former RAF ATC runway caravan, and they were pigs to drive!
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The Visual Control Tower at the Old Edinburgh ATC Building which is still standing came from Blackbushe in the early Sixties and was used until the new tower came on stream in 2005. There are some photo`s of the tower at Blackbushe and when it was being erected at Edinburgh.
Sandy Sandford ATCO Retd Edinburgh
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RE. LK5
Amazingly this gent turned up at the Blackbushe Air Day last Saturday (30th July ’16). His surname is actually Hogben. He told the Air Day organiser that he still has fond memories of his time at Blackbushe as a Runway Controller between 1948-50. Maybe we can glean some of those memories…
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