Gransden Lodge Airfield

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Gransden Lodge Airfield is a former wartime airfield 10 miles from Cambridge, England.

The Cambridge Gliding Centre moved to Gransden Lodge in October 1991, having previously shared Duxford Airfield with the Imperial War Museum Duxford

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[edit] RAF Gransden Lodge

Gransden Lodge opened in April 1942 as an operational bomber base with three concrete runways. At the end of 1945 the airfield was transferred to Transport Command but the last operational squadron was disbanded in February 1946. The RAF station closed in 1955.

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[edit] References

  • G G Jefford, RAF Squadrons, second edition 2001, Airlife Publishing, UK, ISBN 1-84037-141-2.

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