Welcome to Friends of the New Forest Airfields Preserving our Aviation Heritage
COME AND VISIT OUR STALL
FONFA will be at this event looking to attract more volunteers to help at our open days
Heritage Centre Open Days 2025
We are excited to announce that ,for the first time,
we will be open EVERY SUNDAY from 6th April to 26th October
10 am to 4 pm (last admission 3:00)
Free Parking
Café – Light Refreshments
Files coming soon.
Remembrance Sunday at the NEW FOREST Airfields Memorial
Annual commemoration service 2024
Our grateful thanks to the crew of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Avro Lancaster for their low flypast at the beginning of our Service.
More photographs below.
Memorial Service photographs
Nancy Crossen Booth visit to HERITAGE Centre
On Saturday 13th July 2024 we had a visit by Nancy Crossen Booth and her Husband Tom from Ohio USA. They were booked to cruise from Southampton and had a day free before the cruise. Nancy is the is the youngest daughter of Lt Colonel Mo Crossen who was deputy group commander of the 367th Fighter Group based at Stoney Cross and then Ibsley before crossing the channel.
Lt Colonel Mo Crossen photo can be seen in our Mee Mees tearoom outside the original MeeMees alongside Colonel Charles Young the Group commander and Air Marshall Leigh Trafford Mallory. Mo was a major at the time. Nancy never knew her father as she was born after Mo left for England and unfortunately Mo was killed in action in October 1944.
D-DAY 80 Memorial service
Exbury Gardens D-day art exhibition in collaboration with Ballard School
stories based on heritage centre models
The story behind some of the aircraft models in our Heritage Centre, and the pilots that flew them, is fascinating. From time to time we will feature one of these amazing stories of bravery and determination. This month we present the story of the USAAF 405th Fighter Group at RAF Christchurch. The P-47 Thunderbolt models Little Lulu and Touch of Texas represent two of the aircraft flown by the 405th Fighter Group.
The USAAF 405th Fighter Group at Christchurch Airfield v2 (pdf)
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