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Royal Air Force Bassingbourn or more simply RAF Bassingbourn is a former Royal Air Force station located in Cambridgeshire approximately 3 ... (11 Dec 1950 – 16 May ...
London Biggin Hill, a former RAF station This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They are listed under any former county or country name which was appropriate for the duration of operation. During 1991, the RAF had several Military Emergency Diversion Aerodrome (MEDA) airfields: RAF ...
Opened in 1974, the Tower Museum, Bassingbourn is located in the original pre-war air traffic control (ATC) tower (watch office) of RAF Bassingbourn. The museum is focused on the history of the airfield during the Second World War and the men and women of the RAF and USAAF who trained and worked there during that war.
An amateur photographer’s images from the 1950s have been generating fresh interest more than a decade after they were almost lost forever. ... Ray had served in the RAF and was shot down over ...
RAF Alconbury (Active) RAF Bassingbourn (SAC deployments ended 1950) RAF Bentwaters (Closed by USAFE 1992) RAF Bovingdon (closed by SAC – 1960) RAF Brize Norton (SAC deployments ended 1966) RAF Bruntingthorpe (SAC deployments ended 1966) RAF Burtonwood; SAC/USAFE operational use ended 1966 Transferred to United States Army. RAF Chelveston
12th Fighter Escort Wing 1950–1953; ... RAF Bassingbourn, Royston. 2d Bomb Group 1951; 55th Strategic Recon. Wing 1951; 97th Bomb Group 1950–1951;
Six more air bases, RAF Upper Heyford, RAF Brize Norton, RAF Fairford, RAF Greenham Common, RAF Woodbridge and RAF Carnaley, were transferred as they became available. [46] The bases used by the USAF were initially manned by the RAF, but by the early 1950s it was facing severe financial and personnel shortages.
Nine airfields (RAF Alconbury, RAF Bassingbourn, RAF Chelveston, RAF Grafton Underwood, RAF Kimbolton, RAF Molesworth, RAF Podington, RAF Polebrook, and RAF Thurleigh) were allotted to the Eighth Air Force, but had been completed prior to the Class A standard for runway lengths. These were brought to Class A standards in 1942 and early 1943 by ...