Tag: RAF Abingdon

Oct

‘Mostly Blue’ – The Oxfordshire Aviation Archive Balloons to Concorde and Everything in Between (Part 1) Peter Burton and Peter Davis Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum is now the home of the Oxfordshire Aviation Archive which was founded in 2024 by Peter Burton and Peter Davis bringing their collections together which have since been delivered to the museum and recorded in the intervening period. It holds records of the history of…

Nov

Remembering the crew of AD714 A little over 82 years ago, at 6 minutes past midnight on 7 November 1942, an RAF Armstrong Whitworth Whitley bomber, serial number AD714, crashed at Ferryman’s Farm, in the small village of Northmoor, near Witney, following a night training exercise. Three of the five-man crew were killed and two injured. The men who died were the pilot, Sergeant Alfred Taney, navigator Sergeant Leonard Spratt…

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