Lou Lyddon
Lou Lyddon was one of a small number of Airwork Services employees who joined the SAF Association. Lou died on Wednesday 6th January 2021...
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Jan 12, 2021
New Year Honours List 2021
We have noted the following awards in the 2021 New Year Honours List Major General Richard Stanford MBE, Senior British Loan Service...
Jan 7, 2021
Bequest from the late Neville Baker
The late Neville Baker’s crucial role in setting up SOAF’s helicopter force was recorded here in his obituary last year - click here. We...
Jan 6, 2021
A message from our Chairman
For the first time in our 52 years, we’ve now had to cancel the Association’s Annual Dinner – not a milestone that any of us would have...
Nov 8, 2020
Dick Carrington
Dick was born in St Albans in 1935 to a family of journalists. On leaving school he trained as a journalist on the Herts Advertiser. For...
Oct 27, 2020
Colonel Said bin Salem al Wahaibi
Colonel Said Salim sadly passed away in October 2020. He was born on 1 May 1936 in Wadi Assarin. At the age of 16 he went to Sohar and...
Sep 4, 2020
50 Years of Helis
Even in these uncertain times, celebrating the Helis 50th was too important an anniversary simply to be cancelled or postponed…. It was...
Aug 12, 2020
Colonel Mahananda Medhi WKhM
Colonel Mahananda Medhi, known to all as simply Medhi, sadly passed away in Dispur Hospital in Assam India on Thursday 13th August, aged...
Aug 12, 2020
Philip Horniblow OBE
Philip Horniblow who served in Oman during the 1970s died on the 13th August aged 92. He had a fascinating and varied life and his...
Jun 24, 2020
Muqaddam AJP (Tony) Higgins
Tony sadly passed away suddenly during the night of 22/23 June from a suspected heart attack. Being a Muslim he was buried at 1200 on 23...
Jun 7, 2020
Postponement of the 2020 Association visit to Oman
It is with regret that we announce that the Association’s visit to Oman in December this year will now not take place as scheduled. Since...
May 5, 2020
Raaid Chris Beal FTR, RCT and RASC
RAAID CHRISTOPHER HAMILTON (Chris) BEAL died in hospital in Switzerland on 6 May 2020, from a heart attack. Chris was born on 12 July...
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