Former Royal Air Force station, now military training site in Norfolk, England
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Sculthorpe Training Area previously Royal Air Force Sculthorpe
Near Fakenham, Norfolk in England
1946 aerial photograph of RAF Sculthorpe depicting the class A airfield design. The main runway (06/24) runs diagonally (bottom-left to top-right), the technical site and bomb dump on the left. The bomb dump was subsequently relocated to a dispersed secure weapon storage area to the north-east of the airfield accessed from near the runway 24 threshold.
Royal Air Force flying station (former), relief military training airfield (current)
Code
SCTH (SPEC 024 Code)[1]
Area
539 hectares (1,332 acres)[1]
Height
65 metres (213 ft)
Site information
Owner
Ministry of Defence (MoD)
Operator
Royal Air Force (1943–1952) United States Air Force (1959–1964) Royal Air Force (1964–1992)
Open to the public
airfield closed to public, remainder of site full public access
Condition
airfield in continued use
Site history
Built
1942; 82 years ago (1942)
Built by
Bovis Construction
In use
15 January 1943; 81 years ago (1943-01-15) – 2 October 1992; 31 years ago (1992-10-02)[2]
Fate
airfield retained in military use by the MoD and known as the Sculthorpe Training Area[1]
technical and administrative buildings sold for civilian use and now form Tattersett Business and Leisure Park
former military housing refurbished to create Wicken Green Village
Airfield information
Identifiers
IATA: ZXE, ICAO: EGUP
Runways
Direction
Length and surface
06/24
2,743 metres (9,000 ft) asphalt concrete
13/31
1,829 metres (6,000 ft) concrete
18/36
1,829 metres (6,000 ft) asphalt concrete
Sculthorpe Training Area,[1][3] previously Royal Air Force Sculthorpe and commonly abbreviated RAF Sculthorpe, is a training site owned by the British Ministry of Defence (MoD). It is approximately 3 miles (4.8 kilometres) west of Fakenham in the county of Norfolk in England. It forms part of the Defence Training Estate.
The training area is part of the former larger Royal Air Force Sculthorpe, a military airbase which officially closed as an RAF station on 2 October 1992; 31 years ago (1992-10-02). The airfield had been home to many visiting airmen and support crews of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and United States Air Force (USAF). In 1997, the Ministry of Defence sold the entire technical, domestic and administrative site, including the married quarters site previously occupied by the USAF to the Welbeck Estate Group. After the sale, the airfield, along with the dispersed secure weapon storage area, was retained for military training usage.[4][5]
^ abcd"Defence Estates Development Plan (DEDP) 2009 - Annex A – Estate Baseline - 2009" (PDF). GOV.UK. Ministry of Defence. 3 July 2009. p. 16. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
^"Sculthorpe". ABCT.org.uk. Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. n.d. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
^Lancaster, Mark (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State) (18 June 2015). "The Sculthorpe Training Area Byelaws 2015 – UK Statutory Instruments → 2015 No. 1492 – Defence". legislation.gov.uk. Ministry of Defence, Government of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
^Lancaster, Mark (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State) (18 June 2015). "The Sculthorpe Training Area Byelaws 2015 – UK Statutory Instruments → 2015 No. 1492 – Schedule – Byelaws maps and location map". legislation.gov.uk. Ministry of Defence, Government of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
^Into the Sky Aviation Videos (20 October 2022). RAF Sculthorpe - Apaches on base (October 2022). Sculthorpe Training Area. Retrieved 21 August 2023 – via YouTube. Whilst its usual purpose is to facilitate training for the USAF; primarily the CV-22 Ospreys and C130 Hercules' based at RAF Mildenhall, this week we have had the British Army Air Corps up at RAF Sculthorpe with their Apaches. The one in this video is specifically ZJ221, a Westland WAH-64 Apache built in 2002 and based at Wattisham.
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