International Auster Club Fly-In
Abbots Bromley
August 30, 2008
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| Yeatshall Farm, Abbots Bromley was host to the International Auster Club's fly-in. On arriving there wasn't really a welcome as such, you were free to park-up and wander up to a roped off area. Photography was virtually unhindered in a very attractive setting. This small quiet farm strip has a distinctive dip in the grass runway and a hangar by the farm itself with a few based aircraft. |
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| Taylorcraft-Auster AOP.5 (TJ534 registered G-AKSY) departing the farm strip's undulating grass runway. Taylorcraft Aeroplanes (England) based in Leicestershire developed the US designed Taylorcraft Plus C and D models in 1940 to produce the Taylorcraft-Auster Army Observation Post (AOP) aircraft. This light and manoeuvrable aircraft could operate from small airstrips and could evade enemy fighters by flying at very low-level. It was used to advise field commanders of enemy troop movements and artillery. Taylorcraft Aeroplanes (England) later became Auster Aircraft and its AOP aircraft formed the basis of the modern Army Air Corps. |
| Left to right: Taylorcraft-Auster AOP.5 (TJ534 registered G-AKSY) from 1944, Auster AOP.6 /Beagle-Auster A.61 Terrier (VX113 '36' registered G-ARNO) from 1948 and Auster AOP.9 (WZ662 registered G-BKVK) from 1954. |
| Left to right: Auster J/1 Autocrat (G-AJEE) from 1946, Auster J/1N Alpha (G-AIGF) from 1946, Auster J/1N Alpha (G-AJAE) from 1946 and Auster J/1 Autocrat (G-AXUJ) from 1948. |
| Left to right: Auster J/1B Aiglet (G-AMKU) from 1951, Auster J/5W Autocar (G-APUW) from 1959 and Beagle-Auster D.5/180 Husky (G-ATCD) from 1965. |
| Taylorcraft-Auster AOP.5 (TJ534 registered G-AKSY) from 1944. |
