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A Happy and Healthy New Year to you All

Things to look forward to in 2010 ……………………………….

Hopefully the magazine will be finalised by the end of January in Electronic form and a printed version shortly after. Remember you do need to be a full member to receive the full version of the magazine.

The 10^th Reunion, our first milestone, will again be held in the Royal Court Hotel on the 18 to 20^th June 2010. Further details on our website together with a link to the hotel website for those who have not yet been.

TBF - A Fly Navy Federation Dinner for all the Associations who are members of the FNF which include the Armourers, FGC, Handlers, SE, Phot, FAAOA, Cloud Observers (Met) Channel Dash and of course the FAA Association. Tickets will be limited to this event to about 40 per Association in the first instance with a reserve list. This will be towards the end of the year possibly late October.

The next meeting of the fly Navy federation will be held this month and a full wash up of the Centenary Year will be available for inclusion in the magazine. A final newspaper will also be published.

We are hoping to plan a visit to the National Memorial Arboretum during the reunion weekend to see the new FAA Memorial. During the course of this year I will be asking for donations for the purchase of a plaque which will be engraved with our name and logo and will be attached to the memorial. I have closed the donation appeal for the memorial as we have already presented a cheque for £500 to the Memorial steering committee, and have allocated a third of the profits from the Centenary Whisky to the upkeep fund.

So Again all the very best to you and your families, and I hope to see as many of you as possible at the RCH in June.

Yours Aye,

Dave

Secretary FAABA

Founder Member of the Fly Navy Federation

Air Power from the Sea

RNAS YEOVILTON INTERNATIONAL AIR DAY & 70th ANNIVERSARY ON 10th JULY 2010
	RNAS Yeovilton will be celebrating its 70th Anniversary in 2010 and the International Air Day on Saturday 10th July offers a justifiable opportunity to look back on the 70 glorious years since RNAS Yeovilton was commissioned as HMS Heron. From the hectic days in 1940, when the Air Station took shape as a base for training Naval Aviators and Fighter controllers, through the Korean War and Suez crisis during the 1950’s operating Sea Furys, Sea Hawks and Sea Venoms, to the heyday of fixed wing Naval Aviation in the 1960’s and 70’s when the surrounding countryside reverberated to the sound of Sea Vixens and Phantoms,
RNAS Yeovilton has grown to become one of the busiest military airfields in the United Kingdom and is amongst the largest in Europe. Yeovilton Squadrons played a key part in the Falklands Campaign in 1982 and have remained at the forefront of operations, including the Gulf War, Bosnia and Sierra Leone. Since 2007, helicopters from the Commando Helicopter Force have been deployed to Afghanistan in support of forces on the Helmand region, and the Lynx Force are equally busy in operations embarked in ships around the world, most notably engaged in high profile anti-piracy and drugs operations. An extensive flying and static display will take place to mark this significant anniversary with historic aircraft such as the Swordfish, Seafire, Sea Fury, Sea Hawk and Sea Vixen, coming together with other vintage aircraft and their modern counterparts to highlight the role that RNAS Yeovilton Squadrons have played, and continue to play, in operations throughout the decades to the present day.
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