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The collection was founded in 1928 by aviator Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth.While flying a Fairey Battle at night on 2 August 1940, Shuttleworth fatally crashed. His mother, in 1944, formed the Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust "for the teaching of the science and practice of aviation and of afforestation and agriculture."
The Old Warden estate was bought in the late 17th century by London merchant Sir Samuel Ongley. It passed down in the Ongley family until 1872, when Robert Henley-Ongley, 3rd Baron Ongley, in financial difficulties, sold it to Joseph Shuttleworth of the Lincoln engineering firm of Clayton & Shuttleworth. It thereafter became better known as the ...
Old Warden Aerodrome (ICAO: EGTH) is located 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) east southeast of Bedford, in Bedfordshire, England. The privately owned aerodrome serves The Shuttleworth Collection , which contains a large working collection of vintage aircraft, cars, motor cycles and agricultural vehicles and equipment.
Old Warden is a village and civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of the county of Bedfordshire, England, about 6.5 miles (10 km) south-east of the county town of Bedford. The 2011 census shows its population as 328.
Robert Henley-Ongley's memorial in St Leonard's church at Old Warden Robert Henley-Ongley is buried in the Ongley Mausoleum in the churchyard of St Leonard's church. Robert Henley-Ongley, 1st Baron Ongley (c. 1721 – 23 October 1785), was a British politician.
Shuttleworth was born at the Mansion House, Old Warden Park, now part of Shuttleworth College. Richard Shuttleworth was born at Old Warden Park in 1909; his father Frank Shuttleworth died when Richard was just four years old, and his mother Dorothy Shuttleworth brought him up to be ready to take over his inheritance, which he did in 1932 when he was 23.
One of New Orleans' tallest buildings has become a danger in the decades since it was erected in the 1960s. While the $15.5 million building had a few residential units, it was mainly designed for ...
G-AFIB was destroyed in a night take-off accident during the war and G-AFVV was destroyed at some point soon after the war. G-AFTA survived the war, was sold by Henshaw in 1946 but then acquired and restored by the Hawker company in 1949. This was donated to the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden in 1960 and is still airworthy there today.