Steventon – Sunday 11th May 2025 (Grant Robinson)

Hi all,

Gill, Jet and I attended a lovely, local event which has been celebrating VE 80 for the last four days. A lot of credit must go to whoever managed to pull all this lot together and I believe that Aces High Gallery had a big hand in it – https://www.aces-high.com/

You can see via the link below, what had been planned for this small village, just South of Abingdon. The Hurricane, Spitfire and Dakota all turned up as promised, meaning that I have finally seen active aircraft at this small airstrip which is just 4 miles from my house.

https://www.aces-high.com/events/view/steventon-ve-80-celebrations-at-aces-high

These were all seen this morning at the sun soaked airstrip located at 51.620937, -1.333874

All of my photographs can be seen at;

https://www.flickr.com/photos/62861611@N08/albums/72177720326047018

Steventon VE 80 Celebrations:
R4118/UP-W, Hawker Hurricane I, G-HUPW, United Kingdom (G592301)
TD314/FX-P, Vickers-Supermarine Spitfire HF.IXe, G-CGYJ, United Kingdom (CBAF.10492)
WB726/E, de Havilland Canada Chipmunk 22A, G-AOSK, United Kingdom (C1/0178)
WT684, Hawker Hunter F.1 (nose), United Kingdom (41H-665501)
(XH560), Avro Vulcan K.2 (nose), United Kingdom (AV214)
XN511/12, Hunting Percival Jet Provost T.3 (nose), United Kingdom (PAC/W/11800)
(XN647)/707, de Havilland Sea Vixen FAW.2 (nose), United Kingdom (10079)
42-100882/3X-P, Douglas C-47A Skytrain, N473DC, United States (19345)
(G-ASCM)/K2050, Isaacs Fury II (PFA 2002/1B)
(G-AYJY)/K2065, Isaacs Fury II (PFA/1373)
G-BIYK, Isaacs Fury II (PFA 011-10418)
G-BUCO, Pietenpol Aircamper (PFA 047-11829)
(BAPC.184?)/MK392/JE-J, Supermarine Spitfire IX FSM (unknown)
no marks, Airspeed Horsa II (replica) (unknown)