Published by the Hawker Association for the Members.
Contents © Hawker Association

Christmas Lunch
Duke Portrait Preserved
Dunsfold Park
Hawkers in the Fifties
Life of Len Hearsey
Members
Memories of Finland
Middle Wallop
Pegasus: The First Years
Post War Hawkers
Programme
War Birds Designer
Website

It's no longer Dunsfold Aerodrome, but Dunsfold Park now that our historic workplace is owned by the Rutland Group. Your editor visited the site recently and was impressed with its neat, well cared for appearance. Rutland's offices are housed in the old administration building next to the Senior Mess and several of the buildings house small businesses, and of course, BBC's 'Top Gear' motoring magazine programme is filmed in the Experimental Hangar and out on an airfield circuit made up from the runway and sections of the perimeter track. While I was there a Dodge Viper was being exercised.

Events are to be staged there and a very successful 60th Anniversary D-Day concert was mounted on 5th June. Attended by 9,000 people,

£75,000 was raised for the Cranleigh Village Hospital Trust. The highlight was the appearance of a Spitfire flying to the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra's rendering of Walton's 'Spitfire Prelude and Fugue.'

Chief Executive Jim McAllister is keen to recognise the 'heritage' of the site and hopes to have a 'visitor centre' illustrating the history of the airfield. The Hawker Association will, I'm sure, be involved when that time comes. Jim McAllister operates an 'open door' policy regarding community issues or concerns. To receive the professionally produced Dunsfold Park Newsletter write to: The Rutland Group, Dunsfold Park, Cranleigh, Surrey GU6 8TB or telephone 01483 200900. There is also a website: www.dunsfoldpark.co.uk.