It is with great sadness that the staff and ‘Friends’ of Tangmere Military Aviation Museum heard the news of the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visited RAF Tangmere on numerous occasions during her reign and it this airfield where in 1968 His Majesty King Charles III began his flying training with Squadron Leader Philip Pinney in a de Havilland Canada Chipmunk T10 (WP903).
RAF Tangmere was also the base where King Charles later passed his Private Pilots’ Licence and earned his RAF preliminary flying badge.
