RAF North Luffenham
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RAF North Luffenham was a Royal Air Force station in Rutland, United Kingdom. It is near to the village of North Luffenham.
The station was built as a training airfield, opening in 1940. It was later taken over by 5 Group of Bomber Command as a heavy bomber base, and was expanded by the building of concrete runways later in the war. During the 1950s, the station was home to a number of Canadian squadrons.
From 1959 to 1963, North Luffenham was home to Thor intermediate range ballistic missiles.
The station was taken over later by the British Army and became St. George's Barracks, currently home to a battalion of the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment.
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