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 villages of Edith Weston and 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 PGM-17 Thor intermediate range ballistic missiles.
The station was taken over later by the British Army and became St. George's Barracks, currently home to 3rd Battalion, the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment.
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