Which airfield?

It would be well worth comparing that with the Google Earth 1946 imagery… because Brize has been painted out of the print in that!

 

The Google Earth 1946 cover is derived from OS Photomaps – The tactic of hiding sensitive installations behind clouds or fake landscape tended to merely draw attention to having something worthy of closer inspection!

It would be well worth comparing that with the Google Earth 1946 imagery… because Brize has been painted out of the print in that!

It is indeed Brize Norton, the same picture appears on page 24 in the ‘Airfied Focus’ special by Peter Davis, ‘The story of an Oxfordshire airfield’.  This book states that the picture was taken in 1946.  The long straight road on the left is Black Bourton road, this was cut off during the American’s extension of the main runway in the 1950’s! 

GYD  

Thanks Aeronut. Oddly, I hadn’t spotted the railway line so it didn’t seem to match. Cheers.

I’d say it is Brize. The railway on the south side is there and the hoard of Horsa gliders is also a give away.

Wh775 was a 31 Sqn aircraft but in the photo it doesn’t have the 31 Sqn badge.
It was on 13 Sqn as well. At Wildenrath. So maybe that’s the airfield I’m looking for.
The buildings in the background are not RAF Laarbruch.

I acknowledge your good local knowledge re RAF Laarbruch and that my suggestion is not correct.

On the nose of your Canberra photograph there seems to be a squadron crest and I wonder whether it is similar to this item worn on the Canberra PR7 at Newark Air Museum?

While this airframe never served with 31 Squadron the owner has allowed it to be repainted into 31 Squadron markings by the 31 Squadron Association, and to wear a spurious serial. These recently applied markings are supposed to be representative of those worn by some of the squadron’s aircraft.

I would agree Wildenrath. The Pembrokes and the hangars fit but also the road coming out of the wood at an angle on the right hand side of the photograph. There is now a solitary wind turbine in the field between the two woods.
I travelled along the road regularly ’61/63

Wh775 was a 31 Sqn aircraft but in the photo it doesn’t have the 31 Sqn badge.
It was on 13 Sqn as well. At Wildenrath. So maybe that’s the airfield I’m looking for.
The buildings in the background are not RAF Laarbruch.

Some websites note WH775 as a 31 Squadron airframe, so could it have been at their home airfield of RAF Laarbruch?

Think the second one is RAF Wildenrath; Eastern end of the dispersals with 2x 60 Sqn Pembrokes and a contingent of visiting (18 Sqn?) Wessex.

Second is Wildenrath I think.

And onther one: a helicopter base.
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