Anyone with Church Fenton connections who was watching “The Royal” on ITV on Sunday 1st April 2007 may well have recognised the location – it was no less than the ‘pan’ at Church Fenton. Starring was Air Atlantique’s DH Devon VP981. Filming occurred in summer 2006, with weather which couldn’t have been better.
The fact that it was screened on the 70th Anniversary of the opening of Church Fenton (1st April 1937) was a fitting coincidence.