Information on Chalvey airfield could (and apparently did) fill a book! It was part of Walter Spackman's Manor Farm in 1911 and he agreed on 19.6.11 to let 35 acres to John F Benton as a flying field with permission to erect a hangar. Benton designed and built a number of aeroplanes there, models B.1 to B.7 inclusive, of which the B.6 was the most promising and almost gained War Office approval. From 1917 the field was used by an 'amateur flyer" with a Moth and a Monospar. In the 1920s the farm was sold to Eton College and the airfield used by the Jackaman family for their successive Moths, Puss Moth and ST-4. They are shown her. Morris (left) and Nigel (right) with a DH.60X Cirrus II Moth, presumably G-EBRT, at Chalvey (via Tom Dunstall). They often used their aircraft to fly to Rustington near Bognor or to the Norfolk coast for an early morning swim.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: De Havilland Moth / D.H.60 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1925