VOLUNTEERS from the RAF Harrowbeer Interest Group (HIG) have a busy month planned as they will be taking their airfield exhibition to several events during June.

They will be at Buckland Monachorum June Fair, this Saturday and the following week (June 18 and 19) they visit Knightstone Tea Rooms, for the RAF Harrowbeer Archives open weekend in Yelverton before heading for Plymouth Hoe on Sunday, June 26, for the finale of Plymouth Armed Forces Week.

On view will be photographs, documents and artefacts about RAF Harrowbeer, and visitors will also be able to buy a copy of the HIG's recently published book recording the wartime history of RAF Harrowabeer, A History of RAF Station Harrowbeer – Revisited.

RAF Harrowbeer was operational between 1941 and 1946. Many different nationalities flew from Harrowbeer, mostly RAF squadrons but also those from the Fleet Air Arm and US Navy.

The airfield was eventually demolished in 1961 following the decision that it would not become a 'new' Plymouth Airport. Today, visitors will be mostly aware of the airfield's existence, alongside the A386 at Yelverton, by the taxiways and the aircraft bays that are virtually as they were 60 years ago.

The group are still keen to hear from any airfield staff, or from families who lived in the airfield's huts in the 1960s and 1970s.

Anyone with information on the airfield can either contact HIG members Stephen Fryer on 01822 855336 or Brian Salt on 01822 852867, or visit http://www.rafharrowbeer.co.uk">www.rafharrowbeer.co.uk