Goonhilly Model Flying Club – A fascinating hobby at a live functioning RAF airfield

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Goonhilly Model Flying Club

The Goonhilly Model Flying Club fly from Predannick airfield on the Lizard peninsula on Cornwall’s Southeast coast. The airfield is a fantastic site for model flying and has a history of RC flying going back to the 1950’s.

Visitors are welcome as long as they are accompanied by a club member.

Predannick airfield is a relief airfield for RNAS Culdrose and has connections with some of the most famous names in flying including the engineer Barnes Wallace (best known as the inventor of The Dam Buster Flying Bomb) as Well as Group Captain Leonard Cheshire who founded the Cheshire homes the first of which was at Marazion near Penzance.

Predannack Airfield is situated near Mullion on Cornwall’s Lizard Peninsula. The runways are operated by the Royal Navy and today it is used as a satellite airfield and relief landing ground for nearby RNAS Culdrose.

It is also home to an RAF Gliding School unit and the Royal Naval School of Fire Fighting, which holds a number of dummy aircraft for fire extinguishing practice, together with a number of retired airframes for personnel rescue practice, such as this disused Westland Wessex.  The Goonhilly Model Flying Club operates here with permission from the RAF

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