26 March 2015
Classic Air Force has announced the closure of its Newquay site.
A statement on the company’s Facebook page explained, ‘This has been an incredibly hard decision, but the costs of maintaining two attractions are too much to justify, given our status as a charity.’
It continued, ‘Our focus now is on our traditional home here in Coventry, where we’ll be doing more flying, more events and adding more to see and do than ever before. Our task now is to maintain the fantastic visitor reputation our Cornwall guys achieved as the number one attraction on TripAdvisor. Thank you guys, you’ve done a truly outstanding job.
‘We’ll still be offering pleasure flights and aerobatic experiences from airports in the south west, so everyone with a Classic Air Force voucher – or who just wants to fly in one of our old birds – will have a choice of where and when to take a flight. We’ll be posting up flights and locations in the next ten days.’
Geoff Ogden, CAF volunteer, added, ‘We will be around for a couple of months. We have loads to do. We intend to make the closure a professional operation, and make sure the aircraft are well dealt with. It’s the only way we know how to do things.’
The Classic Aircraft Trust was established in 2012 with the aim of preserving a unique collection of airworthy aircraft of the UK’s post-war era, including the Gloster Meteor (pictured). These aircraft were previously owned by Air Atlantique and are now operating as Classic Air Force.
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