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RAF Condover
Located Near Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
Trainee air navigators at RAF Condover May 1945, standing next to a North American Harvard
Technical site now used as a Trading Estate, Control tower still stands. Runways removed.
Site history
Built
1942
In use
1942–1945
Demolished
1960
Battles/wars
European Theatre of World War II Air Offensive, Europe July 1942 – May 1945
Garrison information
Garrison
RAF Flying Training Command
Royal Air Force Condover or more simply RAF Condover is a former Royal Air Force Flying Training Command airfield and air navigation training establishment between August 1942 and June 1945, unusually for both fighter and bomber crews at different times. Located on the southern outskirts of Condover village in Shropshire, 4.9 miles (7.9 km) south of the county town Shrewsbury.
Condover was used to train fighter pilots by the RAF and the USAAF as well as pilots and air navigators from Australia, South Africa and Canada.
Although the runways have now been broken up and removed, many original station buildings still stand and the control tower is considered to be one of the best-preserved in Shropshire. After many years as a major part of a local riding school several of the buildings and land plots were offered for sale by auction during the summer of 2007.
Royal Air Force Condover or more simply RAFCondover is a former Royal Air Force Flying Training Command airfield and air navigation training establishment...
runways have been removed. RAFCondover now forms a major part of Berriewood Farm and Condover Industrial Estate. Condover Hall was commandeered as the...
officers' mess for nearby RAFCondover. In 1946 the Hall was purchased from its then owner, William Abbey, by RNIB and operated as Condover Hall School for the...
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
was structured into six flights, three were based at RAF Shawbury with one each at RAFCondover, RAF Perton and Wheaton Aston. Pilots on the Empire Training...
Supermarine Spitfires It was planned to open RAFCondover as a satellite station but when it opened in 1942 the RAF had decided to hand over the Atcham site...
DFC & Bar (19 April 1919 – 3 August 1941) was a British Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilot and flying ace of the Second World War. Born in Shrewsbury...
village's high grounds. In the Middle Ages the heavily wooded Bayston Hill and Condover area was established as a Royal hunting forest. A busy rope works, complete...
notably on Haughmond Hill, near Bayston Hill, and around the village of Condover. Lead mining also took place at Snailbeach and the Stiperstones, but this...
mammoths in northern Siberia, and many around the Kolyma (river); the Condover mammoth of Shropshire, found in 1986, with a model at the Shropshire Hills...
Christine Denise Simmons, Housekeeper and Health and Safety Co-ordinator, Condover College Ltd. For services to Adults with Learning Disabilities during Covid-19...
to legal aid and education in Scotland. Stanley Oscar Myers, Principal, Condover Hall School for blind children. Thomas David Nudds. For political services...
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