RAF Lyneham Families’ Day - Tuesday 15th August 2006

Once again the station will be holding an Open Day for families of personnel who work on the base. Regrettably, it is not possible to open the event to members of the public, simply because it designed as an informal fun day for personnel who have worked extremely hard throughout the year.

Mid-week is chosen mainly to ensure a reasonable selection of flying displays (these are often fully booked nearly 12 months in advance for weekend events). Local residents may wish to be aware of the likelihood of noise from display aircraft. These include the Red Arrows, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, the Army Air Corps Historic Aircraft Flight and Lyneham's C130J Hercules Display.

It is expected other aircraft may arrive to participate is a ground static display, therefore the station would like to forewarn residents that there is a likelihood of additional aircraft noise during the daytime while the jets arrive and depart.

We appreciate your consideration for this slight disturbance, but it is an opportune moment for many of the service personnel at Lyneham to share a few valuable home family moments, together during this open day, apportioning what goes on in the ever demanding life within today's armed forces personnel. We all are very familiar what an important role Lyneham's personnel and it's planes play in supporting all the world conflict's, first in and last out.

Approximate timings tbc (highlights) are between 13:15 and 15:50:

Red Arrows arrive (quick fly past and landing)
RAF Falcons Parachute Display Team
Army Air Corps
B of B Memorial Flight (Spitfire, Lancaster, Dakota, Hurricane)
Red Arrows main display
Hercules Display