On 14 August at Goodwood aerodrome, West Sussex, retired Gp Capt Philip Pinney was reunited with de Havilland Canada Chipmunk T10 WP903, in which he taught HRH Prince Charles to fly during 1968-69. Now based at Old Warden and registered G-BCGC to the Henlow Chipmunk Group, it had made its last RAF sortie with Philip at the controls, this being a 60-minute delivery flight from Benson on 10 October 1969 after being transferred from the Queen’s Flight to the storage facility at Shawbury.
Philip, who was a squadron leader during 1968, remembers, “HRH the Prince of Wales flew 101 sorties in WP903. The first four were flown at RAF Tangmere on 30 July and 1, 2 and 3 August 1968, and on the following day we flew from Tangmere to RAF Benson.
