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Hawker Hart Trainer

Aircraft & Exhibits, NOV 1935-SEP 1943, In Storage, 71/A/1415

This aircraft was built in 1935 by Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Ltd. After a brief flying career with No. 2 Flying Training School, it was placed in storage in 1938.

Yellow-coloured bi-plane aircraft with RAF roundels, © RAF Museum/Iain Duncan / (c) RAF Museum/ Iain Duncan

Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant James Grant Meiklejohn, 28 April 1996

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3344

James Meiklejohn trained as a pilot in Spitfires, Mustangs and gliders during the Second World War. He explains how, due to the end of the war, he didn’t fly operationally.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Phil Mobbs, 31 May 2024

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-7401

Interview with Phil Mobbs, who served as pilot in C130 Hercules and A400M Atlas transport aircraft. He describes operations around the world and the contrast between the Hercules and A400M.

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Recorded interview with Squadron Leader Gordon Parry, 13 March 2025

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-7417

Gordon Parry was a pilot in Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft and VC10 transport and tanker aircraft. He worked on developing and introducing Voyager transport and tanker aircraft to RAF service.

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Recorded interview with Air Vice Marshal Malcolm Brecht, 20 November 2025

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-7430

Malcolm Brecht flew HS125, HS146 and Tristar aircraft on transport operations. He went on to be the first commanding officer of 99 Squadron as it reformed with C-17 transport aircraft.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Seb Davey, 20 May 2021

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-5669

Seb Davey served as an RAF pilot in C130J and A400M transport aircraft, including operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and flew the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight's Dakota and Lancaster.

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Recorded interview with Harry Silverman, 3 March 2014

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6775

Harry Silverman was an airframe fitter in the UK and India and worked with the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) in India during and immediately after the Second World War.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Arnold Pownall Lewis Greethurst, 23 June 2015

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3304

Arnold ‘Al’ Greethurst served as a navigator in Lancaster, Lincoln, Mosquito, Brigand, Canberra and Vulcan aircraft during the earlier part of the Cold War, including the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Recorded interview with Wing Commander Ian Cathal Macmillan, 18 May 2017

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3360

Recorded interview with Ian Macmillan, who was a navigator in Argosy, Belfast and VC10 transport aircraft, and in C-141 transport aircraft during an exchange tour with the US Air Force.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Lynn Hilditch, 23 February 2026

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9934

Lynn Hilditch joined the Women’s Royal Air Force (WRAF) as an air traffic controller and served at various locations in the UK and Cyprus, with a break due to marriage.

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