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Hace 5 días · RAF: Landing Surface Types: Paved: Aircraft Roles: Bomber (main role) / Espionage support / Trainer: The following organisations are either based at, use and/or have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 01/09/2011): Graveley Parish Council - east side of airfield;
Hace 4 días · Bude. Bude was a mooring-out station for anti-submarine patrol non-rigid airships from Mullion. This airfield was sited some considerable distance from the town in an area of trees to the south-east of the village of Marhamchurch and saw significant activity in the final months of World War One. Peacetime brought swift closure as with all other ...
Hace 5 días · From the summer of 1944 the RAF’s No 5 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit from Tern Hill had been using Atcham as a Relief Landing Ground. A detachment from No 577 Squadron, an anti-aircraft co-operation unit, also used Atcham for a period of time but the airfield closed to flying in April 1946 and completely six months later.
Hace 5 días · Sealand (North & South) (Shotwick) One of Wales’ oldest and longest serving airfields also had surely one of the most convoluted histories of any airfields in Britain, all due to its layout and an enforced change of name. Sealand was originally known as Shotwick and owed its venerable RAF career to a civil training airfield, which opened in 1916.
Hace 4 días · Major. Also known as: Perton Aerodrome / RAF Perton / RFC Perton / Wolverhampton. County: Staffordshire. Current Status: Housing / Public road. Date: 1 October 1916 - 10 July 1947.
Hace 5 días · Major. Also known as: AFC Minchinhampton / Aston Down Aerodrome / Aston Down Business Park / Minchinhampton Aerodrome / RAF Aston Down / RAF Minchinhampton. County: Gloucestershire. Current Status: Aviation / Farmland / Industry. Date: February 1918 - February 1976; subsequent limited flying to present.
Hace 3 días · The first few years of peacetime did not favour Mona but the once abandoned site became Valley ’s Relief Landing Ground from 26 July 1951. Mona was used in this respect by No 202 Advanced Flying School, and the airfield’s most acknowledged role is one maintained ever since for subsequently Nos 7 and then 4 Flying Training Schools.
