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RAF Bentwaters
Rendlesham, Suffolk in England
A Fairchild Republic A-10A Thunderbolt II assigned to the 81st Tactical Fighter Wing, which was based at RAF Bentwaters between 1951 and 1993.
Site sold and became a business park and TV/film location known as Bentwaters Parks with airfield infrastructure and buildings remaining.
Bentwaters Cold War Museum opened in 2007.
Events
European theatre of World War II Cold War
Airfield information
Identifiers
IATA: BWY, ICAO: EGVJ, WMO: 035963
Elevation
24 metres (79 ft)[1] AMSL
Runways
Direction
Length and surface
07/25
2,725 metres (8,940 ft) Concrete
00/00 Wartime
Concrete/Tarmac
00/00 Wartime
Concrete/Tarmac
Royal Air Force Bentwaters or more simply RAF Bentwaters, now known as Bentwaters Parks, is a former Royal Air Force station about 80 miles (130 km) northeast of London and 10 miles (16 km) east-northeast of Ipswich, near Woodbridge, Suffolk in England. Its name was taken from two cottages ('Bentwaters Cottages') that had stood on the site of the main runway during its construction in 1943.
The station was used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War, and by the United States Air Force (USAF) during the Cold War, being the primary home for the 81st Fighter Wing under various designations from 1951 to 1993. For many years the 81st Fighter Wing also operated RAF Woodbridge, with Bentwaters and Woodbridge airfields being known by the Americans as the "Twin Bases".
RAF Bentwaters was the location of an 13–14 August 1956 nighttime radar and visual sighting of multiple UFOs (the Lakenheath-Bentwaters incident); it is also near the location of the alleged December 1980 UFO incident in Rendlesham Forest.
The site is now known as Bentwaters Parks. The Bentwaters Cold War Museum is located on the site, there are offices and warehouses, and the site is also used for television and film making.[2]
^ abFalconer 2012, p. 48.
^"Bentwaters Parks". Bentwaters Parks. Retrieved 4 August 2009.
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