As promised, a few from Bremen this year and last.

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Does Every Stupid Premise Engender Requiring Another TIGHAR Expedition? :rolleyes:

That’ll do!

I still have a few bits of B-36 from a crash site in Wiltshire. This thread highlights the thin line between getting away with it (ish) and not.

That’s not the claim. It was a military airfield and latterly military/civilian for 80 years, 1916 – 1996. After a brief hiatus it expanded as a solely civilian airport from 2000 and has remained in civilian use until now. Making 98 years.

…so not an airport for anywhere near 100 (or 80 years) then. In fact I’m fairly certain that it saw only military activity as an airfield up to the end of 1958, and joint civil airport/military airfield since then. I make that 56 years max as an airport.

Just trying to clarify an already-muddy pool.

Fingers crossed then.

However I very much doubt that Manston has operated as an airport for , “…almost 100 years”. I recall that civil passenger and freight flights began post-World War 2 and even by my poor maths, that’s nowhere near 100 years.

Duncan

Sadly nothing for Wyton either.

However it might be worth trying to get a basic timeline together and then do the usual newspaper searches for local incidents etc (newspapers were reasonably free to report in WW1) and also use resources such as ‘Airmen Died in the Great War’ to at least put dates to casualties. Also try the IWM and RAF Museum, who may well hold airfield maps or photos and logbooks. NMRA in Swindon also carries aerial photos.

County records office might also have contemporary files (airfield construction etc) and then there are other more obscure sources such as records of USAS squadrons (if there were any) which trained there, or maybe even a search on the very useful Australian War Museum site, which has a lot of RFC content, via Australians who either trained with or served in the RFC.

It can be a laborious process, but it’s often where the enjoyment is.

Very doubtful on both counts but I’ll have a look. In my experience, it’s mainly the front-line units which have surviving records.

Duncan