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Bruntingthorpe
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1989
(© Martyn Chorlton)
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RAF
Bruntingthorpe airfield
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Airfield Today:
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Used
for industry and runways/perimiter track used as vehicle test track
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Tower Type:
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1. Watch office for
All Commands 12779/41 with small windows to 15371/41
2. Postwar U.S.A.F. control tower |
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Tower:
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In use
2. Demolished |
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Other
Buildings:
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Many
of the original wartime buildings remain in use including hangars, runways,
perimeter track
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History:
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11/42, Opened to No. 29 Operational Training Unit with Wellingtons of
No 92 Group as a satellite to North Luffenham.Used for a short time in 1945 by Frank Whittle's Power Jets company testing early Meteor jet fighters.  Base on Care
and Maintenance from 1945 until January 1957 when it was transferred to
USAF Command as a satellite to USAF at Alconbury.
New 3,400 yard runway built. In January 1959 the 3912 Combat Support Group
and SAC 100th Bomb Wing moved in with B-47s. In August 1959 the 19th Tactical
Recce Sqn (10th TRW) moved in with RB-66Bs.Finally closed when the USAF left in 1962. |
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RAF
Bruntingthorpe airfield
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The
post-war USAF control tower
1960 (© Jack Joyce) |
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RAF
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Airfield:
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Training, OTU Bomber
Command
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Opened:
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11/1942
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Closed:
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09/1962
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Code:
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BP
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USAAF Station:
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N/A
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Runways:
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3x - concrete/tarmac
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Hangars:
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1x - B1, 1x - T2
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County:
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Leicestershire
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Location:
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10 miles S of Leicester
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OS Ref:
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SP595885
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Links:
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©:
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Photographs
and artwork copyright © as stated
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Bruntingthorpe airfield
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Hawker
Sea Hawk
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Victor
B.2 XM715 'Teasin Tina'
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Stanton
pre-cast sectional air raid shelter
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Ex-BAe
Super Guppy
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DH
Comet 4c XS235 2001
(© Robert Truman)
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RAF
Bruntingthorpe airfield
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RAF
Bruntingthorpe airfield USAF www.controltowers.co.uk © robert truman
2001 - USAFE Bruntingthorpe -
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