Welcome to a slightly delayed update from the Blackbushe Heritage Trust. We can’t believe it is June already and just a couple of weeks to go before the popular Blackbushe Air Day returns on the 15th.

After many hours of hard work by stalwarts Pete Vickery, Richard Dyett and James Burton, the new BHT shop opened on Sunday 4th February. It will now open on the 1st and 3rd Sunday every month, between 10am and 2pm.

As always it has been a busy few months at the BHT with a lot going on and new avenues opening up.

What we need most of all right now is more volunteers to get involved to cover an ever increasing

workload.

Former Autair and British European Airways pilot Mike Bennison kicked off this season’s talks last Wednesday with an entertaining insight into his early days flying propliners including our very own GAGRW.

Tuesday 2nd May was a historic day at Blackbushe as our Vickers Viking G-AGRW ‘Vagabond’ finally returned home, completing a 950 mile journey from Bad Voslau, Austria.

Since our last update there has been some progress, ‘Vagabond’ was repositioned this week, as part of a training exercise, by a specialist recovery team of Fire Crew from Vienna Airport.

Since our announcement on the 15th January 2023 that we will be returning Vickers Viking G-AGRW ‘Vagabond’ back to Blackbushe Airport much work has been going on behind the scenes including technical visits to Bad Vöslau Airport in Austria where the aircraft is located.