Fowlmere Airfield (ICAO: EGMA) is a small airfield located 4.2 miles (6.8 km) northeast of Royston, Hertfordshire and 8.8 miles (14.2 km) southwest of...
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Paranormal. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fowlmere. Fowlmere's airfields – a brief history Modern Air Fowlmere Nature Reserve Fowlmere Primary School...
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List of airports in the United Kingdom and the British Crown Dependencies (redirect from List of UK Airfields)
public active aerodromes (airports and airfields) in the UK and the British Crown Dependencies. Most private airfields are not listed. For a list ranked by...
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within RAF Fighter Command into four Groups, each comprising several airfields and squadrons. The groups involved, 10, 11, 12 and 13, saw very different...
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Sarum Airfield Salisbury England EGLT Ascot Racecourse Heliport Ascot Racecourse England EGLW London Heliport London England EGMA Fowlmere Airfield Cambridge...
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Fairchild Argus 24 R-46A from 1944 available for private hire at Fowlmere Airfield, England R46-129 – Fairchild 24 R-46 on display at the Hagerstown...
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Bedfordshire. Wartime Airfield Layout 1944 (website accessed: 28/07/10) Archived 24 August 2001 at the Wayback Machine Modern Air - Fowlmere Aerodrome – a brief...
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Mamedoff was flying with 133 Squadron on a standard transit flight from Fowlmere Airfield to RAF Eglinton in Northern Ireland in his Hurricane Z3781. The wreckage...
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Duxford Aerodrome (redirect from Duxford Airfield)
was started on a more formal airfield. The new aerodrome was built as part of a pair with a sister station at Fowlmere. The hangars built in the period...
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when the WRAF was deactivated. During the war, while stationed at Fowlmere Airfield, which was occupied by American forces at the time, Florence met U...
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List of former Royal Air Force stations (section Overseas Royal Flying Corps (WWI) and British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (WWII) airfields)
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
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Chalgrove Airfield (ICAO: EGLJ) is a former Second World War airfield in Oxfordshire, England. It is approximately 3 mi (4.8 km) north-northeast of Benson...
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RAF Shipdham (redirect from Shipdham Airfield)
located 3 miles south of Dereham, Norfolk, England. The airfield now operates as Shipdham Airfield. RAF Shipdham was the first US heavy bomber base in Norfolk...
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RAF West Malling (redirect from Kingshill Airfield)
home to the Maidstone School of Flying, before being renamed West Malling Airfield, and, in 1932, Maidstone Airport. During the 1930s many airshows and displays...
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RAF Burtonwood (redirect from Burtonwood airfield)
lives of the servicemen, the war and the airplanes at the base. Burtonwood airfield was opened on 1 January 1940 as a servicing and storage centre for modifying...
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an Eighth Air Force fighter unit stationed in England assigned to RAF Fowlmere. It had the highest claims of air and ground enemy aircraft victories in...
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Gransden Lodge Airfield is a former wartime airfield located 10.1 mi (16.3 km) west of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. The Cambridge University Gliding...
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RAF Kimbolton (redirect from Kimbolton Airfield)
Cambridgeshire, England. The airfield was originally built in 1941 for RAF Bomber Command, then expanded to Class A airfield standards for use by American...
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Kadena Air Base (redirect from Kadena Airfield)
local construction firm completed a small airfield named Yara Hikojo near the village of Kadena. The airfield, used by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force...
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RAF Debden (redirect from Debden airfield)
airfield was opened in April 1937 and was first used by the Royal Air Force. One of Debden's early and most bizarre experiences was when the airfield...
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RAF Lavenham (redirect from Lavenham Airfield)
World War II airfield in England. The field is located 7 miles (11 km) N of Sudbury in Suffolk, near the village of Alpheton. Lavenham airfield was built...
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Bolo Airfield (also known as Bolo Point Airfield) is a former World War II airfield at Naval Base Okinawa in Okinawa, at Bolo Point on the East China Sea...
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Advanced landing ground (category World War II airfields)
(secondary coordinates) Advanced landing grounds (ALGs) were temporary advance airfields constructed by the Allies during World War II during the liberation of...
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RAF Honington (category Airfields of the VIII Fighter Command in Suffolk)
has been the RAF Regiment depot since 1994. Construction of Honington airfield, which was undertaken by John Laing & Son, began in 1935, and the station...
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RAF Molesworth (category Airfields of the VIII Bomber Command in the United Kingdom)
and RAF Molesworth were the last Second World War era Eighth Air Force airfields in the United Kingdom that were still actively in use and controlled by...
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RAF Bungay (category Airfields of the VIII Bomber Command in Suffolk)
English county of Suffolk. The airfield is also known after the village of Flixton, near which it was built. Bungay airfield was originally planned as a...
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Auxiliary Airfield (伊江島補助飛行場, Iejima Hojo Hikōjō) is a training facility, managed by the United States Marine Corps and a former World War II airfield complex...
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RAF Watton (category Airfields of the VIII Air Service Command in the United Kingdom)
the Second World War. During the war it was used primarily as a bomber airfield, being the home of RAF Bomber Command squadrons until being used by the...
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RAF Kings Cliffe (category Airfields of the VIII Fighter Command in the United Kingdom)
The airfield was built with hard-surfaced runways and a perimeter track, these were extended early in 1943. Construction work on the airfield commenced...
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RAF Bovingdon (redirect from Bovingdon Airfield)
miles (4.0 km) south-east of Berkhamsted. During the Second World War, the airfield was used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the United States Army Air Forces...
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