Details of the Hertfordshire Police Flying Club including photographs and a link to a Pathe newsreel from the nineteen fifties.
Read more A Pathe Newsreel about the Police Flying Club
Read more Formed in 1956, the Hertfordshire Constabulary Flying Club was based at Panshanger airfield and successfully restored a Tiger Moth aeroplane.
Read more Pathe footage of lorry on motorway.
Read more Chiltern Air Support – The Air Support Unit base in Luton closed in 2006 and moved to a £1m purpose build facility at RAF Henlow where the Unit continued to operate until September 2012. As part of a rationalisation of police aviation in England and Wales the National Police Air Service was created in 2011. ...
Read more Chiltern Air Support Unit – In 2002 a new Eurocopter EC135 T2, tail code G-CPSH provided enhanced pilot safety with a three axis autopilot (CAA requirement) and much improved equipment for the police role. The Air Support Unit base in Luton closed in 2006 and moved to a £1m purpose build facility at RAF Henlow where ...
Read more Ad-hoc use of police helicopters in the early 1990’s saw Hertfordshire Constabulary call upon air support from the Metropolitan and Thames Valley Police. In 1995 Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Police conducted a successful trail using an aircraft loaned from Police Aviation Services. In 1996 the Chiltern Air Support Unit was formed, comprising Hertfordshire Constabulary, Thames Valley ...
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