Скачать или смотреть 30 year Old Film of RAF Leconfield Helicopter Sea Rescue Training Day Filey North Yorkshire

My good Youtube friend Chris has recently been sorting out some old VHS tapes . He came across this 'lost' Wardlow family day out at Filey footage. This 30 year old footage was shot by Chris's brother in law Berni. It shows a R.A.F. SeaKing? Helicopter from Leconfield between Driffield, Beverly and Hull on a sea rescue training exercise with R.N.L.I. personnel at Filey, north Yorkshire.

RAF Leconfield is located in East Riding of Yorkshire RAF LeconfieldRAF Leconfield
Site history
Built 1936 & 1957
In use December 1936 – January 1977
Battles/wars European theatre of World War II
Cold War
Past Commanders Group Captain John Hemingway.
Group Captain John "Paddy" Hemingway, a former Commanding Officer of RAF Leconfield and the last surviving RAF pilot of the Battle of Britain, died on 17 March 2025, at the age of 105.

History
Leconfield opened on 3 December 1936 as part of RAF Bomber Command with Handley Page Heyford bombers from No. 166 Squadron RAF using the airfield from January 1937 until early September 1939.

Second World War
On the night of 3 September 1939, the first night of the war, ten Whitley bombers from Leconfield became the first British aircraft to penetrate German airspace, dropping propaganda leaflets over Germany. In October 1939 it was taken over by RAF Fighter Command and the Supermarine Spitfire I's of 72 squadron arrived from RAF Church Fenton.

During the war the RAF squadrons based at Leconfield were:
No. 51 Squadron between 20 April 1945 and 21 August 1945 with the Short Stirling Mk.V before moving to RAF Stradishall.
No. 166 Squadron between 20 January 1937 and 17 September 1939 using the Handley Page Heyford III before switching to the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley I in June 1939 and moving to RAF Abingdon.
No. 196 Squadron between 22 December 1942 and 19 July 1943 flying the Vickers Wellington X before moving to RAF Witchford.
No. 234 Squadron reformed at Leconfield on 30 October 1939 with the Fairey Battle, Bristol Blenheim IF, Gloster Gauntlet II before settling on the Supermarine Spitfire Mk. I. The squadron moved to RAF Church Fenton on 22 May 1940.
No. 466 Squadron between 22 December 1942 and 3 June 1944 with the Handley Page Halifax II/III before moving to RAF Driffield.
No. 610 Squadron between 29 August 1941 and 14 January 1942 with the Supermarine Spitfire IIA/VB before moving to RAF Hutton Cranswick.
No. 640 Squadron formed at the airfield on 7 January 1944 with the Halifax III before switching to the Mk. VI in March 1945 and disbanding on 7 May 1945.
The station was also the place of formation of the Polish No. 302 Squadron "Poznański", and the place of rest of the Polish No. 303 "Kościuszko" Squadron after it had its turn in the defence of London. One of 303's pilots, Tadeusz Sawicz, was at the time of his death in 2011 believed to be the last surviving Polish pilot to have fought in the Battle of Britain.

Post-war
In the 1950s Leconfield was a nominated 'dispersal base' for the RAF V bomber force. Also, after being transferred from RAF Catfoss in October 1945, and into the early 1950s, it was home to the Central Gunnery School which, among other functions, trained air gunnery instructors in Wellington bombers and pilot attack instructors in Spitfire and Mosquito aircraft. This school was later transformed into the Fighter Weapons School. The aircraft then flown were mainly single-seat Venoms and Meteors, plus twin-seat Vampire T11, Meteor trainers and Hawker Hunters for trials with ADEN cannons in 1957. Bristol Sycamore HR 14 helicopters of No. 275 Squadron RAF arrived on 9 October 1957; the squadron was then re-equipped with the Westland Whirlwind HAR 4 in March 1959, and also the HAR 2 version in August 1959. On 1 September 1959 the squadron was disbanded.

On 29 June 1959 19 Squadron joined with their Hawker Hunter F.6's. They were re-equipped with the English Electric Lightning F.2 in December 1962, and moved to RAF Gütersloh on 23 September 1965, where they were joined on 24 January 1968 by No. 92 Squadron, the RAF's official aerobatic team, known as the Blue Diamonds, which had also been stationed at Leconfield with their Hunter F.6's and later FGA9s. It then became home to No. 60 Maintenance Unit RAF (MU) and also 202 'B' Flight with Westland Whirlwind helicopters. 60MU was responsible for the major servicing of the EE/BAC Lightnings, plus several other tasks] No. 202 Squadron became the first SAR unit to rescue people off Britain's first offshore oil rig, the Sea Gem, which had capsized on 27 December 1965; the crew of a Whirlwind were awarded medals and commendations for rescuing three men from the freezing water in a horrendous snowstorm.

In the 1970s the control tower at Leconfield developed a reputation for being haunted by a flight lieutenant who had been killed, along with an airman passenger, when a Meteor 7 he was piloting crashed when coming into land in 1956.
RAF Leconfield closed on 1 January 1977.