February 8, 2007 at 2:29 pm
I had forgot all about this until the recent old airfield threads.
Last summer I was somewhere in Notts when I came across an old airfield, the runway was still intact and it looked like some glider or light aviation flying had been going on.
The airfield was definitely not Tollerton or Syerston, but if it helps there was a tractor factory close to the airfield and also it looked like some old hangers were being used for storage these hangers are not on the main part of the airfield but over the road from it.
By: andrewman - 9th February 2007 at 10:20
Thanks for the info 🙂
By: Peter Clare - 8th February 2007 at 20:51
http://www.content-delivery.co.uk/aviation/airfields/Langar.html
By: 1 Group - 8th February 2007 at 20:02
It’s definitely Langar, some pics of it here
http://oldairfields.fotopic.net/c1111138.html
By: Praesta - 8th February 2007 at 14:39
It’s Langar
Sounds like Langar – If the Tractor Factory was John Deere. Langar is the home of a parachute school and can be found (very roughly) between Bingham and Melton Mowbray at 52.53N – 0.54W
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?cp=52.8939|-0.904444&style=h&lvl=15&…
Used to be an AVRO repair facility in the war, and the home of 207 sqn. Post war it became RCAF Langar and was the a/c spares base for Northern Europe – Number 30 Air Materials Base (AMB) if my memory serves me well enough. It “closed” in 1963