In 1942-3, the Moscow Special Assignment Airgroup of the Soviet Air Force (No. 305 FTU) was based at RAF Errol airfield in Perthshire (near Dundee). Comprising 60 Russian pilots, navigators, and engineers the ‘ferry’ unit flew British Armstrong Whitworth A.W.41 Albemarle (twin-engine transport aircraft – part of a contract of […]
Neil Cameron, KT, GCB, CBE, DSO, DFC: was another of the flight training recruits at Scone Aerodrome during the late 1930s. He was born at 32 Pitcullen Terrace in Perth on 8 July 1920 to Isabella Cameron (née Stewart) and Neil Cameron who had served as a company sergeant major […]
Vernon ‘Woody’ Woodward, one of Canada’s top fighter aces of World War Two, learnt to fly at Perth Aerodrome. As a British Columbian from Victoria, born 22 December 1916, Woodward was able to join the Royal Air Force (20 August 1938) as an Acting Pilot Officer. His elementary flying lessons […]
