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Dear Members,

On behalf of myself and the Committee, I would like to wish all those whom we did not see at the AGM at Carreg Mon Hotel,a very Happy New Year for 2009.

We thank you all for your valued support, and for showing your confidence in the Society by re-electing the existing committee for another year.

The Families'/Photocall Day in August 2008 tuned out to be another great success from which we managed to make substantial donations to Hope House/Ty Gobaith, RAF Valley Charities, St. John's Ambulance and the ATC Cadets.

There will be some changes for this year's Event for which the details will appear, in due course, in the monthly magazine.

Our President, Group Captain Neil Connell, and his officers at RAF Valley continue with their strong support of the Society, emphasized by the former's Foreword in the current Valley Wings Magazine.

The Committee and I will continue to work hard in your interest during the forthcoming year. I, personally, look forward to meeting you at our monthly meetings. We welcome all new members and trust that you will be happy in our midst.

We very much enjoyed our Christmas Dinner at the Carreg Mon Hotel which was attended by the President and his wife Tina to make up a total of forty people. The consensus was that it was a very agreeable and successful occasion.

Once again, thank you for your support.

Wishing you all the best for 2009,

Jack Thomas.

CHAIRMAN

RAF Valley Families Day/Photocall Thursday 27th August 2009

The Society as part of the Valley Family has been invited by our Honorary President, Group Captain Neil McG Connell, (Station Commander) to attend as his guests. However, unlike on previous occasions, there shall be no admission tickets on sale as the event is to be strictly restricted to only Valley Aviation Society members.

RAF VALLEY FAMILIES DAY & PHOTOCALL 2008 CD/DVD

The society yet again have created a CD & DVD of the 2008 Photocall and will be on sale at the society's next social meeting. Both CD & DVD have 300 images from unique locations around the RAF Valley and set to music. The whole slideshow runs for aprox. 40 min.

The price for the CD will be £5.00 plus p&p and the price for the DVD will be £10.00 plus p&p

You can get your copy at the social meeting, the cabin, or by contacting Tom Brown

4FTS 2009 DISPLAY HAWK

As part of the RAF Display Season it is planned to prepare two Hawk T1s with a distinctive paint scheme for the 2009 season.

Valley Aviation Society has been enabled, by RAF Valley and Babcocks to record from start to finish, the application of the 2009 scheme.

The story began on a cold , windy March morning.

The first of the duo, XX307, stands silent and still. The airfield is awakening and the morning bustle is picking up tempo.

The Paint Shop at RAF Valley is empty, doors closed.

At 08.37 hrs on Tuesday the 3rd of March, the Ground Team, with “Duggie” the tractor, locked on to XX307 and began the slow and careful move into the Paint Shop.

The journey of change had begun.

See the full story of XX307 by clicking on the thumbnail above.

VALLEY AVIATION SOCIETY PHOTO COMPETITION 2008

I would like to thank all V-A-S members once again for supporting the 2008 V-A-S Photo Competition.

Once again, entries in this years competition was one of the very best we have ever had.

The event it seems to be going from strength to strength and the level of quality is better then ever.

My self and the rest of the committee members, would like to thank all the participating V-A-S members for their support. We are looking forward to see even more entries for next year's event.

As always, if you have any comments or suggestions, please email me on jim@valleyaviationsociety.net with your comments.

Best Regards

Jim LeCras.

19 SQUADRON SPECIAL PAINT SCHEME 2008

In August 1938, 19 Squadron were the first to be equipped with Spitfires at Duxford and to celebrate this historic occasion 19 Squadron submitted a paint scheme, which was approved after months of negotiations, not only for the funding for the paint scheme, but also for the approval to have a Hawk painted in complete camouflage colours.

On the 15th of April, XX184 was towed to the paint shop at RAF Valley as a black trainer and emerged three weeks later as a fully camouflaged Hawk in the original colours of a Battle of Britain Spitfire.

You can follow the paint shop progress of XX184 by clicking on the thumbnail above.

Photos: With permission of Babcock RAF Valley and Courtesy of Valley Aviation Society.

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