I am looking for more information relating to this Satellite Landing Ground and its use during WW2.
My Dad can remember seeing aircraft there (some of his family originated from this village), and a search on this forum yields that Curtis Seamew aircraft were stored, but what else went on here and are there any books which might yield more information?
I guess the landing strip was in the grounds of the School (as is now)?
Regards in advance…..
By: Propstrike - 16th December 2013 at 18:38
Maps and wartime aerial photo here.
http://www.airfieldinformationexchange.org/community/showthread.php?8390-Beechwood-Park
By: Newforest - 16th December 2013 at 16:55
Beechwood today!
http://www.content-delivery.co.uk/aviation/airfields/Beechwood.html
By: Buster The Bear - 16th December 2013 at 15:50
By: G-ASEA - 31st December 2007 at 09:34
Was there a MU in the grounds of Woburn, where some Stirlings were broken up?
DS
Woburn Park was satellite landing ground no 34. According to my farther the Stirling where under the trees. Every time i have been to a DH Moth rally, i go looking for bits of Stirling. Its getting harder to find bits with out a metal detector, but still found a few bits last time. A few years ago my son found a piece of metal with a Short Brothers stamp on it. When we had our museum at Bletchley park i spoke to a pilot who flew a Stirling into Woburn Park. He also said some one had landed a Stirling and ran into the lake, leaving the nose of the aircraft under water.
Dave
By: DocStirling - 31st December 2007 at 08:31
Lettice Curtis “The Forgotten Pilots” wrote about Beechwood Park . By mid 1943 it had been transferred to 15 MU(Wroughton). It was used by Stirlings as well as Seamews. It remained in use to March 1946.The strip was 1,260 yards long SW/NE.
Was there a MU in the grounds of Woburn, where some Stirlings were broken up?
DS
By: Newforest - 29th December 2007 at 12:50
My Dad reckons that the film The Dirty Dozen was shot on the site of the airstrip and during the war, Laurance Olivier and Ralph Richardson would regularly fly RAF aircraft in and out of there?
Your Dad has a good memory!
By: Buster The Bear - 29th December 2007 at 12:37
My Dad reckons that the film The Dirty Dozen was shot on the site of the airstrip and during the war, Laurance Olivier and Ralph Richardson would regularly fly RAF aircraft in and out of there?
By: T-21 - 28th December 2007 at 22:30
The Hangar and Workshop was located in the SW corner.
By: T-21 - 28th December 2007 at 22:28
Yes New Forest , the strip ran from where it says Clements End Rd, North Easterly towards Roe Green Rd but stopped about 2 fields away at the hedgeline shown.
By: Newforest - 28th December 2007 at 22:21
Would this be it?:D
http://www.content-delivery.co.uk/aviation/airfields/Beechwood.html
By: T-21 - 28th December 2007 at 22:20
Lettice Curtis “The Forgotten Pilots” wrote about Beechwood Park . By mid 1943 it had been transferred to 15 MU(Wroughton). It was used by Stirlings as well as Seamews. It remained in use to March 1946.The strip was 1,260 yards long SW/NE.
By: G-ASEA - 28th December 2007 at 19:16
Yes there where Seamew’s at Beechwood, My dad saw them too! There was a small control building which was converted to a house called “Flight Cottage”. My parents loooked at buying it in the early 1980’s before it was done up. It was near the school. I was told a Spitfire crashed near there at some time during the war. Beechwood Park was satellite landing ground No12. It is in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Airfields in the second world war by Graham Smith.
Dave
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