SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: No forgetting where you are at Yeovilton!

A MASSIVE banner has been unveiled at RNAS Yeovilton just to remind people travelling through the area where they are.

Commodore Jock Alexander was present as the Fly Navy banner – described by a spokesman as being “very large” – was unfurled on the end of a hanger to the north of the air station, the Royal Navy’s largest air station.

The banner will be clearly visible to travellers through the area and the idea was hatched by Cdre Alexander, Commanding Officer of RNAS Yeovilton, to raise public awareness of the station as people commute up and down the A303.

PHOTO – TOP: The “very large” banner at RNAS Yeovilton.

PHOTO – RIGHT: Commodore Jock Alexander and Mike Nixon, of Fly Navy Heritage Trust.

RNAS Yeovilton is home to the Lynx Wildcat Maritime Force and the Commando Helicopter Force, with more than 100 aircraft operating on front-line squadrons and training units, plus the legendary vintage aircraft of the Royal Naval Historic Flight over 4,000 people, service and civilian and contractors are employed on the base.

Babcock International Group, which maintains and operates two simulators at Yeovilton for aircraft and fighter control training for the Royal Navy, Royal Fleet Auxiliary and overseas Navies, made the banner possible.

Steve Murdoch from the company and his team commissioned the banner to be in place prior to Yeovilton’s International Air Day on July 26, 2014.

Chief executive of the Fly Navy Heritage Trust, Mike Nixon, said: “The Fly Navy Heritage Trust is delighted to be associated with a lasting message for the public to see, drawing attention to the Fleet Air Arm’s home at Yeovilton and the partnership between the Royal Navy, Babcock and the Trust.”

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