RAF Abbots Bromley
RAF Abbots Bromley is a former Royal Air Force Relief Landing Ground (RLG) located 0.7 miles (1.1 km) north-west of the village of Abbots Bromley, Staffordshire. The airfield opened during 1940 and closed on 31 March 1949 being the satellite of RAF Burnaston.
Based units
The following units were here at some point:
- Relief Landing Ground for No. 5 Elementary Flying Training School RAF flying de Havilland Tiger Moths (1940–41)
- Relief Landing Ground for No. 16 Elementary Flying Training School RAF between June 1941 and July 1945
- Sub site for No. 21 Maintenance Unit RAF between May 1945 and March 1949
The airfield was also used after the Second World War for storing ammunition.
Current use
There is currently not much of the original site left partly because of the fact it had grass runways and partly due to the period of time elapsed however a guard house and a single Robin hangar remain with part of the site becoming a chicken farm.
See also
References
- Citations
- ^ "Airfields". The Wartime Memories Project. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
- ^ "RAF Abbots Bromley". Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
- ^ "RAF Abbots Bromley". The Wartime Memories Project. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
- ^ Sturtivant & Hamlin 2007, p. 102.
- ^ Sturtivant & Hamlin 2007, p. 103.
- ^ Sturtivant & Hamlin 2007, p. 176.
- ^ "UK Airfields". Bones Aviation Page. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
- Bibliography
- Sturtivant, R.; Hamlin, J. (2007). Royal Air Force flying training and support units since 1912. UK: Air-Britain (Historians). ISBN 978-0851-3036-59.