So what aircraft did you take your first flight in?

[andypspotter]

My 'starter for ten':

C175 G-AROC circa early-mid 1970s

Surely there'll be some slightly more exotic aircraft types out there?

[controller]

Avro Anson, 1957. First flight in a clockwork mouse was Chipmunk.

[captainbob]

First 6

24.MAY.58 G-AGHJ DAKOTA EASTLEIGH - JERSEY 65
31.MAY.58 G-AGJW DAKOTA JERSEY - EASTLEIGH 60
28.SEP.58 G-AGYT J/1N Alpha Eastleigh - Eastleigh 4
19.OCT.58 G-AHND DH82A Tiger Moth Eastleigh - Eastleigh 9
09.MAY.59 G-AHKB DH89A Dragon Rapide Eastleigh - Eastleigh 10
22.MAY.59 G-ALTP AS40 Oxford Hamble – Hamble 76

Since flown in well over 100 types, but favourite probably Aeronca C3 G-ADYS or Sandringham VP-LVE.

[rob]

Cessna 206 G-AYJU from Blackbushe in 1979 taking off from runway 01. Then from ages 13-15 we did a yearly school trip option to WLAC at White Waltham and a flight in a PA28.
Rob

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1st.Flight : G-AIGC Auster J.1. Thruxton 27/8/56. (and again 13/8/57).
1st.Jet : F-BJTA Caravelle(Air France). LHR-Orly 14/7/63. (Return by F-BHRJ).
1st.Piston Airliner : G-AGHS DC.3(Cambrian). Hurn-Orly 9/6/65. (Return by G-ALCC).
1st.Turbojet Airliner : G-AOYI Viscount(BEA.). Hurn-Jersey 8/5/65. (Return by G-ARER BUA).
1st.Trans-Atlantic : N93108 B.747(TWA). LHR-LAX 3/4/81. (Return by N93109).
Shortest Reg. : N2Z Pa.28. Melbourne(FL)-Merritt Is. & return 25/4/84.
Oldest Aircraft : N7584 Ford Trimotor(1928). Lakeland(FL) 16/4/88 - 8 minute circuit!

Cheers.............Peter V.

[lordevanelpuss]

I've just moved this from the Blackbushe thread where it seemed to be ignored, so here is the story of the first time I left terra firma. My first ever flight was from Blackbushe and was in February 1973 and the trusty steed was PA28 G-AXSH, courtesy of an officer from the air cadet squadron at the time. I was to have another go in *SH later that year. A few others that I remember seeing at 'the bushe' that day were A61s G-ARZT, AYDW; Auster G-AIGT; Tipsy Junior G-AMVP (in a hanger as we taxied down, must have been a 08 departure) WA41 G-ATZS (Still going strong & seen at Popham a few years ago) and PA28 G-BAHE. Other aircraft that I've flown from Blackbushe in are:
1974 Ce172 G-AWEG
1979 Ce150 G-BBNX (may have been *NY)
1979 Ce 206 G-BGWR
1991 DH89 G-AIYR
2000 Ce172 G-SEXI (BBS-GWD-SHM & ret)
2000 Ce150 G-ATEF (BBS-Thruxton & ret) The first of many flights in *EF. Most recent being last year. Nice to see her fly over my house recently.

[egka]

My first flight was at the PFA Rallye at Leicester East in G-AWMD Jodel D11.
I cant say I really appreciated the novelty of flying in a two seat homebuilt taildragger with a skid at the time, and quite a contrast to my last flight in N4053M Cirrus last year at Sywell.

[Cactus 737]

First flight was in 1972 on a Dan Air comet from Gatwick to Naples, sadly don't know the reg!

[andypspotter]

Geoff, I bet it was madness (wings of a dove).

[jaybee]

My first flight was in a Skyways HS 748(can't remember reg) to the Paris airshow from Lympne(Kent) to Beauvais.
A week later that aircraft went off the end of the runway and flipped upsidedown.

[jaybee]

Forgot to add, the 1965 show(age problem again)