Hunsdon Airfield is an airfield near Hunsdon, Hertfordshire and 2.8 miles (4.5 km) north of Harlow, Essex, England. As of 2021, it is used by a local microlight club.
The airfield was used by the Royal Air Force between 1941 and 1945 under the name of RAF Hunsdon.[1][2]
^"RAF Hunsdon - History". Unknown. Retrieved 2 August 2010.
^Hitching F & Hitching V. The Royal Air Force at Hunsdon 1941–1945, Published by The Hunsdon Local History and Preservation Society, 1990. ISBN 0-9506633-1-X
HunsdonAirfield is an airfield near Hunsdon, Hertfordshire and 2.8 miles (4.5 km) north of Harlow, Essex, England. As of 2021, it is used by a local microlight...
population of the village taken at the 2011 Census was 1,080. Baron HunsdonHunsdonAirfield The Hundred Parishes Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 167...
dedicated to those who died in the attack and a general airfield memorial is at HunsdonAirfield, the Mosquito base. On the 60th anniversary in 2004, a...
of Ontario and Flag of Manitoba) British Civil Air Ensign in use at HunsdonAirfield. The Cenotaph, showing the Royal Air Force and Civil Ensign flanking...
been on the morning of February 18, 1944 as Max Sparks took off from Hunsdonairfield for the raid on Amiens prison, however the model will incorporate 21st-century...
from RAF Skeabrae, Orkney, arrived. In addition Douglas Havocs from RAF Hunsdon in Hertfordshire also came to the base. By the start of 1943, the high...
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
Sculthorpe, completing more than 100 missions, before departing for RAF Hunsdon in Hertfordshire on 31 December 1943. In January 1944, No. 214 Squadron...
These are: Epping Forest Cornmill Stream and Old River Lea Hainault Forest Hunsdon Mead (part) Roding Valley Meadows Turnford and Cheshunt Pits (part) Waltham...
RCAF Station Winisk RCAF Station St. Margarets Kandahar Air Base Relief airfield for No. 6 Service Flying Training School/RCAF Station Dunnville RCAF Detachment...
celebrities stayed at the Country Club while entertaining troops at the airfield, including Bob Hope, James Stewart and Glenn Miller. Next to Bovingdon...
aerial shots of the airfield show the 'ghost' outlines of the reinforced grass runways, similar to what can be seen at nearby RAF Hunsdon and RAF Matching...
the attacking light bombers. He was appointed acting wing commander at Hunsdon in late March and led the station's fighter wing during Operation Nestegg...
there had been a farm called Doncombe and a vineyard on the site of the airfield, the names of Doncombe Lane and Doncombe Hill being the last link to the...
trials, March 1943, and then these five aircraft went to 85 Squadron, Hunsdon, where they were flown from April until August of that year. The greatest...
county's borders in Essex and Bedfordshire, respectively. The commercial airfield at Elstree is for light aircraft. The Grand Union Canal passes through...
entirely demolished; a lot of the building was used as hardcore for Bovingdon Airfield, and much of the woodwork and carvings from the castle were burnt. In 2014...
over by the Home Office for police research. It is home to a small grass airfield to the north, named Coleman Green Airstrip which is used for general aviation...
complete history of the airfield, see the book Where the Lysanders were ....., by Paul Doyle, published in 1995 by Forward Airfield Research Publishing....
Lincolnshire, England. Opened in 1939 and operated as a fighter and night fighter airfield during the Second World War, occupied at various times by UK, US, Canadian...
airport, reverted to RAF use at this time, continuing as an active military airfield until 1971. A campus of West Herts College, the library, new police station...
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