VOLUNTEERS from the RAF Harrowbeer Interest Group (HIG) will on Saturday May 2 and Monday May 4 take their airfield exhibition to the 'Harrowbeer Weekend' organised by Knightstone Tea Rooms, Yelverton.
On view will be photographs, documents and artefacts about RAF Harrowbeer, and there will be a chance to try your hand at being a fighter pilot, with the flight simulator. Volunteers will be offering a free guided walk around the airfield at 2pm each afternoon. The walk lasts approximately three hours and covers most of the airfield's remains. On Sunday May 3, the interest group are taking the exhibition to Bolt Head Airfield, Salcombe for the Devon Strutt 'Fly-in'.
RAF Harrowbeer was operational between 1941 and 1946. Many different nationalities flew from Harrowbeer, mostly RAF Squadrons but also Fleet Air Arm and US Navy.
The airfield was 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 is still keen to hear from any airfield staff, or from families who lived in the airfield's huts in the 1960s and 70s. Anyone with information on the airfield can either contact HIG members Stephen Fryer 01822 855336 or Brian Salt on 01822 852867, or visit http://www.rafharrowbeer.co.uk">www.rafharrowbeer.co.uk