Welcome to the website of the
LAA Suffolk Coastal Strut
The Suffolk Coastal Strut welcomes members from not only Suffolk, but also Essex, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire.
We hold monthly meeting on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at our 'home' base of Crowfield Airfield. Members have aircraft based at Crowfield, Elsmett, Great Oakley, Hinderclay Meadows, Lavenham, Little Baddow, Maypole, Monewden, Nayland, Old Buckemham, Priory Farm, Seething, Tibbenham, Wolves Hall, Wormingford and a number of private strips & locations.
While Boxted, in Essex, is the home to our annual July fly-in.
Visitors to Crowfield are most welcome (although restrictions apply) and flying instruction/PPL hire is available in the Flying clubs two Robin HR.200/120B, Robin DR.400/180 and Pa18-150 Super Cub. Details at www.crowfieldairfield.co.uk
Dates for the Diary
Wed 15th Jan 2020
Strut Meeting - Amelia Earhart talk by Graeme Douglas
Graeme Douglas will be giving us a summary of Amelia Earhart’s life and achievements in aviation followed by a detailed look at the planning
and execution of her final flight along with a look at what might possibly have gone wrong. Finally a look at some of the ‘alternative’
theories and how they don’t hold up.
Date TBA
Strut Meeting - Annual Strut meal and social evening
Date and location of this years Annual Strut meal and social evening has still be decided.
Wed 18th Mar 2020
Strut Meeting - Beagle Pup restoration – Anne Hughes
Anne Hughes will be coming along to give a talk about the restoration of "Foxy" the prototype Beagle Pup, G-AVDF
Wed 15th Apr 2020
Strut Meeting - Strut AGM
As usual the April meeting will be the Strut AGM.
Please come along and support your strut - As well as the general running of the Strut,
it's the time everyone can put forward their ideas for meetings, fly-outs,
visits etc for the forthcoming year, plus go over plans for this years Boxted Fly-in.
Wed 20th May 2020
Strut Meeting - GASCo Safety Evening
Aim is to get pilots, no matter how long they have been flying or what aircraft type they fly, to STOP and THINK about how they can make their future flying a bit safer, for themselves and others. This presentation should be highly informative, balancing serious safety messages with lively audience participation.
All Welcome. Open to non-Strut members and anyone with an interest in safety.
Photos taken at the Strut meeting of 17th July 2019 during visit to Waits Farm to see the Isaacs Spitfire being built by Richard Teverson have now been uploaded to the Strut Website
19 July 2019
Part 2 of Tim Palmer's (alias "Jodel Flyer") Boxted Flyin video
Nice Boxted flyin video from Tim Palmer, alias "Jodel Flyer" on Youtube, who flew in to Boxted in Jodel G-AYEH
06 July 2019
The Strut caravan made it first outing in it's new colours at Boxted today
30 June 2019
Photos taken by our host MSgt Eric Burks on the F15 Ramp tour during our Base visit to RAF Lakenheath has now been received and uploaded to teh photo gallery
Suffolk Coastal Strut Banner taking pride of place on the "Meet the LAA" stand at Old Buckenham's LAA & Homebuilt fly-in on 25th May
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26 May 2019
A cold looking group of Strut members infront of an F-15 during the RAF Lakenheath base tour on 17th May
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21 Jan 2019
Funded by LAA HQ, the Strut now has an advertising Banner which can be used at events, such as our Boxted Fly-in, Duxford LAA Bonus Day, Sywell LAA Rally etc
