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RAF Little Staughton

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Because of the lack of redevelopment most of the Military Buildings remain including the control tower, the Airfield battle HQ, a T2 hangar and a variety of smaller buildings, some of which are in an area called 'little america' as it was the site of the American accommodation blocks, which is to the
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The site is mainly for farming with the hangars used for various uses. In January 2020, Little Staughton Airfield and Industrial Park applied for planning permission to develop the site to re-open the airfield. By December 2021 IAE had constructed a new hangar and re-opened half of the runway. There
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Aerial photograph of Little Staughton airfield looking north, the technical site and barrack sites are to the right, 10 February 1944.
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RAF Squadrons. A comprehensive record of the movement and equipment of all RAF squadrons and their antecedents since 1912
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At some point the runway was shortened on the south end to the southmost taxiway with the land converted into a field.
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extended the runway for use by jet aircraft in emergency circumstances. However, in the late 1950s they moved out.
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The airfield was placed into care and maintenance in 1945, and during the 1950s the
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is also a solar farm and an industrial estate reusing the old airfield buildings.
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RAF Little Staughton was returned to the Royal Air Force (RAF) on 1 March 1944
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Royal Air Force stations of World War II in the United Kingdom
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Mks I and III before being disbanded on 10 September 1945.
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Former Royal Air Force station in Cambridgeshire, England
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IATA
ICAO
Air Ministry
United States Army Air Forces
Royal Air Force
United States Air Force
Little Staughton
Bedfordshire
AMSL
Coordinates
52°14′40″N 000°21′42″W / 52.24444°N 0.36167°W / 52.24444; -0.36167
https://www.iae.org.uk/little%20staughton%20airfield.htm
RAF Little Staughton/Little Staughton Airfield is located in Cambridgeshire
Runways
Direction
Asphalt
Royal Air Force
Great Staughton
Cambridgeshire
St Neots
England

United States Army Air Forces
No. 2731 Squadron RAF Regiment
No. 2746 Squadron RAF Regiment
No. 109 Squadron RAF
de Havilland Mosquito
No. 582 Squadron RAF

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