In 1983 we went on a tienertour day trip to Volkel: by train to Oss and by rental bike to Volkel. A trip of over three hours and in the afternoon the same way back.

Displayed at the entrance to Staverton from 1976. Its last flight was with 229OCU coded Z in January 1974. It gained the 28 Sqn bars whilst with 229 OCU in 1973.

Registered G-RNAS on November 16th 1982.

A classic landing picture of the Starfighter. Just the howling sound is missing.

This Cessna A185E was imported to Canada in 1971 and was part of the fleet of Central Mountain Air Services in July 1983 when I flew in it from the floatplane base at Tyhee Lake to Fredrikson Lake to work on a mineral exploration project for Gerlie Gold. Our helicopter-accessible tent camp in the mountains was next to an old wooden prospectors cabin and much to my surprise the yard containing parts salvaged one the decades from the wreck of Junkers J.13, CF-ALX which crashed at nearby McConnell Lake on July 23, 1933; Most of CF-ALX was salvaged by WCAM in 1981. Now in the Technikmuseum Berlin.

J-258 was one of the first F-16's delivered to Volkel. It was lost on 10 May 1990 in a mid-air collision with J-358 while operating from CFB Goose Bay, Newfoundland, Canada.