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I am the Secretary of the No 46 Squadron Association. One of our members Dennis (Denny) O'Brien passed away last year. I understand his that his obituary appeared in the Magazine. It would be great if we could read out the obituary at our next Reunion on 7 June on 7 June.Would anyone be able to help? Contact me on 07786 277771.
Regards
Dougie

Good afternoon,

My name is Steve Chamberlain and I am a Licensed AME in Canada, I have served the Canadian government in this capacity since 1991. Many of my civilian instructors and AME peers here in Canada back then were ex-RAF personnel who had gone on to obtain a civilian AIR Engineer's licence / AME Licence in order to certify airworthiness either in the UK or other Commonwealth nation or after emigrating to Canada.

I am also an aviation historian - focused on maintenance technicians (AMTs) and licensed civil aviation airworthiness inspectors (Licenced AMEs).

I recently purchased a 1943 vintage Air Ministry pattern 1B/4235 clinometer, 10 Degree from an antique dealer in the UK to add to my collection of vintage aviation tools prescribed for use within various of the UK Air Ministry Air Publications for assembling and maintaining 1930's - 1950's vintage aircraft.

Contained within the wooden case housing this instrument was a 1/2" x 7/8" x 1-1/4" steel gauge block bearing the inscrition "E. Hare. 1

Alan Monk - my father - received his final posting recently. He was a Boy Entrant in RAF Halton’s 86th Entry of Apprentices. He never spoke in detail about his time at RAF Halton, other than to express his great pride in having been among the privileged few.
One trivial point we haven’t been able to establish was the hat band colour his Entry may have worn; or whether it changed as the Entries progressed. The fact that Dad was colour blind probably contributed to the detail being of little importance to him!
Is there anyone out there who can unravel the hat band colour conundrum for me, please?

Hi there

My father died a couple of weeks ago and I know he did his RAF apprenticeship training (aircraft instruments) at RAF Halton. He went straight from school, so I would expect that it would have been around 1951 if he was 16.

I wondered whether there were any members who would like to know that, and if there are any pictures of him on the site. Unfortunately I don't know his RAF number, but he was born on 25th March 1935.

The funeral is on October 4th, Macclesfield Crematorium 10am

Kind regards

Carolyn

Good afternoon.

I am enquiring whether in your archives there may be any details of relating to my dad, Joseph Lee, who entered Halton in 1936.

Sadly he has now no longer with us but I am very interested in his life at Halton - he entered the RAF in 1936.

Is there a resource somewhere where I might be able to read more about that year's entry?

Might you require a service number? Might that help?

Kind regards
Sue Ellis xx

Is 537998 an Apprentice number? I am looking for Patrick O'Leary

Sent an application in to Shaun re membership and had no response, Is the association still going