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DOMESTIC ESTABLISHMENTS
 

Lee on the Solent. By Leslie Burkin, Beryl Peally. Tempus Publishing; ISBN: 0752410385. Our Price: £9.99
	Book on the history of Lee on the Solent and the role it played agongst others for the former Headquarters of RAF Coastal Area (precursor of RAF Coastal Command) and the Fleet Air Arm 1917-1996. Click here to view details
Paperback (30 September, 1997)
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Shore Establishments of the Royal Navy, by Ben Warlow . Maritime Books; ISBN:0907771734.  Our Price: £14.95
	This is a reference work on the naval establishments of the Royal Navy Click here to view details
Paperback 2nd revised edition (March 2000)
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RNAS Culdrose. By Peter London. Sutton Publishing; ISBN: 0750922303. Our Price: £10.99
	Part of the series "Sutton's Photographic History of Aviation", this text sheds light on Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose in Cornwall's Lizard peninsula - the Navy's biggest shore establishment. Culdrose is now the largest and busiest military air station in Europe, and on an active day carries out as many movements as a major international airport. Commissioned in 1947, the station has seen considerable variety in use. Originally the Navy's main training base, until the mid-1950s its main tasks were the development of air fighting tactics as well as the introduction of jet aircraft to Naval service. Culdrose also led the development of Airborne Early Warning and Electronic Warfare capability within the Navy. By the late 1950s the station was gearing up to manage the move away from fixed-wing aircraft toward the helicopter, assuming responsibility for the introduction into service of the Whirlwind, and then, in the 1960s, of the Wessex and Sea King. Culdrose has since developed and currently hosts both anti-submarine and Airborne Early Warning helicopter squadrons. The station's aircraft and crews have been deployed in both the Falkland and Bosnian conflicts. A comprehensive Air Sea Rescue capability has been established, flying hundreds of missions every year. Culdrose is also home to the Fleet Requirements Air Direction Unit and the School of Flight Deck Operations, while the airfield at nearby Predannack has been resuscitated, and is used for helicopter training exercises. For the future, Culdrose will lead the introduction into service of the Navy's new helicopter, the Merlin. Click here to view details
Paperback - 128 pages (7 October, 1999)
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Airfield Focus No 42: Prestwick. Peter Berry. GMS Enterprises; ISBN: 1870384857. Our Price: £4.95 . RRP:
	Prestwick well known to the Fleet Air Arm - past and modern. HMS GANNET at Prestwick in Ayrshire is one of three Naval Air Stations of the Fleet Air Arm. AIRFIELD FOCUS. A historical series investigating the airfields of the UK. Card cover books of approx. 34pp with 20-30 photographs + maps. A new edition is released every 8-10 weeks, and already the series is building up into an indispensible source of information on UK airfields. Editions still available are: 1)Duxford 2)Bassingbourne 3)Wattisham 4)Horsham St Faith 6)Ringway 7)St Eval 9)Swanton Morley 10)Oakington 13) Sullom Voe & Scatsta 14) Bournemouth / Hurn 16)Evanton 18)Marham 19)Inverness 20)Coningsby 22)Coltishall 23)Aldergrove 24)Heston 25)Oban & Connel Ferry 26)Peterborough 27)Harrowbeer 28)Swinderby 29)Benson 30)Watton 31)Invergordon 32)Ludford Magna 33)Abingdon 34)Stoke (Meir) 35)Dundonald 36)St.Mawgan 38)Bicester 40)Molesworth 41)Binbrook 42)Prestwick 43)Upper Heyford 44)Grafton Underwood 45)Hatfield Click here to view details
Paperback (October 2000)
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Yeovilton, Defenders of the Fleet. Superbase 22. by Mike Verier. Osprey; ISBN: 1855321386. Our Price: £10.99.
	One of three current Royal Navy Naval Air Stations, HMS HERON at Yeovilton in Somerset which is also the Flagship to the Admiral. Also home to Westland Helicopter, the Royal Navy Historic Flight and the Fleet Air Arm Museum. Click here to view details
Paperback - 128 pages (1991)
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Airfield Focus No 35: Dundonald. Phil Jones. GMS Enterprises; ISBN: 1870384660. Our Price: £4.95
	This book focuses on Dundonald airfield, once used by the Fleet Air Arm Click here to view details
Paperback (February 1999)
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Airfield Focus No 8: Kinloss By Chris Ashworth . GMS Enterprises; ISBN: 1870384210. Our Price: £3.95
	This book focuses on the history of Kinloss airfield. Click here to view details
Paperback (March 1993)
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Abc UK Military Airfields. By Peter March, Wal Gandy. Ian Allan Publishing ; ISBN: 0711025649. Our Price: £7.15.
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Paperback - 96 pages 2nd Ed (28 May, 1998)
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Action Stations 8 by Bruce Barrymore Halpenny. Patrick Stephens Limited (Haynes Group); ISBN: 185260431X. Our Price: £17.50.
	This volume completes PSL's updating of the "Action Stations" series, and covers Greater London in detail. All the military airfields in the area are listed alphabetically, and each entry describes the background to the establishment of the airfield, the hangers and control tower. Featuring in depth, both the Battle of Britain and the defence of London against the Blitz, as well as later cross-Channel operations, this illustrated book also includes new sections on German airfield camouflage, and the RAF Airfield Construction Branch. All the military airfields in the region are listed alphabetically with exact location and map reference. The book details well-known aviation locations such as Biggin Hill, Henley, Gatwick, Heathrow and Luton and air defence headquarters at High Wycombe and Uxbridge. There are also new sections on the RAF Airfield Construction Branch and German airfield camouflage. Click here to view details
Hardcover - 264 pages 2nd Edition (1993)
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RAF Manston Special Edition. By Saunders Keith. Sutton Publishing; ISBN: 1840131969. Our Price: £9.99.
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Paperback (26 March, 1998)
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Manchester Airport: Ringway Remembered. By Barry H. Abraham . Tempus Publishing; ISBN: 0752421093. Our Price: £10.99
	The beginnings of Manchester Airport are found in the Alexandra Park Aerodrome which saw its first civil flight in 1919. It survived only until 1924 when the expanding air traffic found temporary residence at Wythenshaw until moving to a permanent site at Barton Moss in 1930. Barton also proved too small for the thriving airfield so the airport moved again in 1938 to its present site at Ringway.  The Second World War, however, brought about the halt of commercial flights as the site was taken up as a military base, and used by the Fleet Air Arm. It was the location of various airborne operations, becoming the home of the Parachute Training School and also seeing the prototype flights of the Avro Manchester, Lancaster and Lincoln Bombers. The present airport consists of three large terminals, two runways and a railway station as well as the old 'mini-terminals' of the 1960s and the many offices and businesses on the site.  Click here to view details
Paperback (1 March, 2001)
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U-boat Hunters: Cornwall's Air War. By Peter London. Truran; ISBN: 1850221359. Our Price: £9.99.
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Paperback - (31 December, 1998)
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In Cornish Skies. By Peter London . Tempus Publishing; ISBN: 0752421018. Our Price: £9.99
	This local history book in the "Images of Aviation" series  covers the entire spectrum of Cornish aviation, civil and military from Claude Grahame-White's first flight over the British fleet moored in Mounts' Bay in 1910 to todays Nimrods, helicopters, light aviation and base gate guardians. The front page includes a photograph of a Fairey Swordfish. Click here to view details
Paperback - 128 pages (30 November, 2000)
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Aviation Cornwall. By Peter London.  Air Britain (Historians) Ltd; ISBN: 0851302610. Our Price: £17.50.
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Hardcover (1998)
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Devon & Cornwall Airfields in the Second World War. By Graham Smith. Countryside Books; ISBN:  185306632X. Our Price: £12.95.  RRP:
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Paperback - 288 pages (October 2000)
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Hampshire Airfields in the Second World War. By Robin J. Brooks.  Countryside Books; ISBN: 1853064149. Our Price: £12.95.  RRP:
	Part of the series in airfields in the different counties in the Second World War, published by Countryside Books. A full account of the part played by the county's airfields in the last war including the planes, the pilots and the civilians involved. Includes information about the main airfields  used by the Fleet Air Arm in WW2 including the Fleet Air Arm headquarters, HMs Deadalus, at Lee on Solent, the RNAS Worthy Down, RAF Gosport and RAF Calshot, not forgetting the Fairey Aviation factory at Warsash, the RAE at Farnborough and the Supermarine factory Woolston/Southampton. Fully illustrated. Click here to view details
Paperback - 320 pages (September 1998)
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Kent Airfields in the Second World War. By Robin J. Brooks.  Countryside Books; ISBN: 1853065234. Our Price: £12.95.  RRP:
	Part of the series in airfields in the different counties in the Second World War, published by Countryside Books. Includes information about the main Air Stations used by the Fleet Air Arm in WW2 including RAF Manston and RAF Detling, Fully illustrated.  Click here to view details
Paperback - 288 pages (September 1998)
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Lincolnshire Airfields in the Second World War. By Graham Smith. Countryside Books; ISBN: 1853064246.Our Price: £12.95.
	Book with summaries to the main Lincolnshire airfilds including RAF North Coates long used by the Fleet Air Arm from the Battle of Britain period onwards when 22 squadron and 812 Swordfish squadron were both involved in attacking enemy barges prior the presumed invasion by Germany in 1940.  Click here to view details
Paperback - 288 pages (September 1997)
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Sussex Airfields in the Second World War. By Robin J. Brooks.  Countryside Books; ISBN: 1853062596. Our Price: £12.95.  RRP:
	Part of the series in airfields in the different counties in the Second World War, published by Countryside Books. Describes the airfields of Sussex during the last war, the planes and the pilots who flew them and the local civilians who worked alongside them. Includes information about the main Air Stations used by the Fleet Air Arm in WW2 including RNAS Ford and RAF Thorney Island, Fully illustrated. Click here to view details
Paperback - 192 pages (September 1998)
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Yorkshire Airfields in the Second World War. By Patrick Otter.  Countryside Books; ISBN: 1853065420. Our Price: £12.95.  RRP:
	Part of the series in airfields in the different counties in the Second World War, published by Countryside Books. A full account of the part played by the county's airfields in the last war including the planes, the pilots and the civilians involved. Includes information about the main airfields  used by the Fleet Air Arm in WW2 including at Sherburn-in Elmet in Yorkshire where Blackburns were involved in building the Fairey Swordfish, Fully illustrated. Click here to view details
Paperback - 320 pages (October 1998)
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Forever Farnborough : Flying the Limits 1904-1996. By Peter Cooper. Hikoki Publications; ISBN: 0951989936. Our Price: £30.50 . RRP:
	History of the RAE Farnborough from its inceptiomn in 1904 until its closure in 1996. An importnat site for the evolution of the British naval aircrfat from 1904 until the last decade.  Click here to view details
Paperback - 176 pages 1 ED (25 August, 1999)
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The Secret Years: Flight Testing at Boscombe Down 1939-1945. Tim Mason, David Howley (Illustrator).  Hikoki Publications; ISBN: 0951989995. Our Price: £25.46. RRP:
	A book covering the once secret flight testing work at A&AEE, Boscombe Down 1939-1945. Includes information avbout the Naval Unit and all the naval aircraft tested at Boscombe Down during WW2. Click here to view details
Hardcover - 256 pages (1998)
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RAF Fighter Airfields of World War 2. By Jonathan Falconer. Ian Allan Publishing; ISBN: 0711021759. Our Price: £19.99.  RRP:
	Brief descriptions of the various airfields occupied by Fighter Command and some 'word sketches' of life at typical Fighter Command airfields.  Click here to view details
Hardcover - 128 pages (30 September, 1993)
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RAF Bomber Airfields of World War 2, by Jonathan Falconer. Ian Allan Ltd; ISBN: 0711020809. Our Price: £16.99
	Book about the RAF Bomber Airfields of World War 2 Click here to view details
Hardcover (June 1992)
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Action Stations Revisited: No1 Eastern England. By Michael J. F. Bowyer; Crecy Publishing; ISBN: 0947554793. Our Price: £19.96. RRP:
	Part of the Action Stations series about the airfields of UK. Action Stations Revisited: No1 Eastern England. It is confined to East Anglia and Lincolnshire. This book is a worthy successor to the original 11 volume 1970/80s series and covers the airfields in the same depth. The photographs are interesting and complement the text. Click here to view details
Hardcover - 399 pages (August 2000)
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Wings Over Westgate. By Geoffrey Williams; Kent County Library; ISBN: 0905155572. Our Price: £3.75. RRP:
	The story of a front line Naval Air Station in WWI. Click here to view details
Paperback 148 pages (December 1985)
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OVERSEAS ESTABLISHMENTS
 
 
 

Action Stations Overseas by Tony Fairbairn. Patrick Stephens Limited (Haynes Group); ISBN: 1852603194. Our Price: £15.99.
	A volume from the "Action stations" series, which covers Britain's overseas air bases including the Royal Navy Air  Stations. It outlines the histories of some 60 of these which featured so prominently in such campaigns as the North West frontier, Palestine, Kuwait, the Kenyan and Malayan emergencies and the Falklands. Click here to view details
Hardcover - 192 pages (1991)
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Royal Navy at Gibraltar by Tito Benady, Helen Sharp (Illustrator), George Felipes (Illustrator). Gibraltar Bks; ISBN: 0948466286
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Hardcover 2nd revised edition (15 November, 1993)
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RAF Gibraltar by Tony Fairbairn. Tempus Publishing; ISBN: 0752423525
	Even the most seasoned traveller could not fail to be impressed by that-time, ground-level view of the Rock of Gibraltar 1,300ft of sheer limestone towering majestically over the airfield’s asphalt acres. The impressive grey cliff face is indented with a handful of viewing galleries from some of the thirty plus miles of tunnels which honeycomb the Rock, and the view from the top is unforgettably panoramic. Gibraltar’s key position at the entrance of the Mediterranean has resulted in a pronounced, but not exclusive, maritime flavour to a military air activity here, in addition to a parallel role as a civilian airport.  The airfield you see today is built on what used to be Gibraltar racecourse and it was from the original equestrian venue that the first aircraft took to the air in 1915. It was in 1942 that RAF Gibraltar sprang to prominence and air activity reached an all time high, for that year saw Operation TORCH the allied invasion of North Africa, in which the Station would play a leading part. In contrast to the peaks and troughs of military activity, civilian flying tends to be less hectic and more even-paced. Pride of place in the annals of Gibraltar as a civil airport must go to the local airline, Gibraltar Airways.  Click here to view details
Paperback - 128 pages (1 March, 2002)
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Royal Navy at Gibraltar. By Tito Benady, Helen Sharp (Illustrator), George Felipes (Illustrator) . Gibraltar Bks; ISBN: 0948466286. Our Price: £15.95
	This book covers the rioch hiostory of the Royal Navy and also its Naval air units at Gibraltar. Click here to view details
Hardcover 2nd revised edition (15 November, 1993)
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Military aviation in Malta GC, 1915-1993. By John F. Hamlin. GMS Enterprises. ISBN: 1870384253
	'Military Aviation in Malta G.C. 1915 - 1993' is a hardback book, containing 256 pages, broken down into Chapters on individual airfields; each fully detailed with specially comn-iissioned maps. It is profusely illustrated with over 360 photographs and illustrations, many of which have been tracked down, located and obtained on loan from private collections and therefore have never appeared in print before. Click here to view details
Hardcover - 256 pages (1994)
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The British Pensacola Battalion : a flight log representing the British Flight Battalion, U.S. Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida,  1941-1944 by Frank Robinson. ASIN: 0897450469
	This book covers the British Pensacola Battalion : a flight log representing the British Flight Battalion, U.S. Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida,  1941-1944 Click here to view details
Hardcover - ( date)
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The British Flight Battalion at Pensacola and Afterwards  by Frank Robinson (Editor). ASIN: 0897450450
	This book covers the British Pensacola Battalion : a flight log representing the British Flight Battalion, U.S. Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida,  1941-1944 Click here to view details
Hardcover - ( date)
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Abandoned Military Installations of Canada (Vol.1, Ontario) Ozorak. 82 army, air force, navy installations from Ajax to Kapuskasing, Picton, Winisk, etc. $20.00 B CANAV Books
	Excellent outlines with updates to the 1900s. 300 pp, sc, photos, maps, index. Click here to view details
Hardcover - 300 pages (Date)
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Abandoned Military Installations of Canada (Vol. 2, Quebec) 1939 to the present. Sites from Grosse Ile (germ warfare tests) to La Macaza (Bomarcs) to Highwater (Gerald Bull's artillery experiments).  CANAV Books. $26.95
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Hardcover - 320 pages (Date)
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United States Naval Air Stations of World War II: Western States Vol. 2. By M. L. Shettle Jr. Motorbooks International; ISBN: 0964338815. Our Price: £23.69.  RRP:
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Hardcover - 288 pages (August 1997)
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United States Naval Air Stations of World War II, Volume I: Eastern States. By M. L. Shettle Jr. Schaertel Publishing Company; ISBN: . Our Price:   RRP:
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Hardcover - out of print (1995)
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United States Naval Air Stations of World War II. By M. L. Shettle Jr. Motorbooks International; ASIN: 0964338807. Our Price: RRP:
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Hardcover - Out of print
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United States Navy and Marine Corps Bases, Overseas, by Paolo Coletta, Paolo Enrico Coletta, K. Jack Bauer (Editor) Greenwood Press; ISBN:  0313245045. Our Price: £100.95
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Hardcover - 459 pages (1 June, 1985)
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United States Navy and Marine Corps Bases, Domestic . By Paolo E. Coletta, Paolo Enrico Coletta, K. Jack Bauer (Editor) . Greenwood Press; ISBN: 0313231338. Our Price:£117.95
	United States Navy and Marine Corps Bases, Domestic  Click here to view details
Hardcover - 740 pages (1 June, 1985)
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The U. S. Navy in Pensacola: From Sailing Ships to Naval Aviation, 1825-1930 by George F. Pearce. ASIN: 0813006651
	This book covers the Naval establishment and HQ of US Naval Aviation Click here to view details
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