Bridgend flying sites
Note: This map only gives the location of Bridgend town within the UK.
BRIDGEND: Civil aerodrome?
Period of operation: 1920s?
NOTES: There’s a record of an AVRO 504K (G-EBNH) operated by South Wales Airways, crashing at Bridgend in 1928 - but was it at an aerodrome? In early 2013 I discovered another mention of South Wales Airways Ltd in Neville Doyles book The Triple Alliance (page 73) in which he states: “.....in fact, it was a joy-riding operation using Avro 504K’s from Bridgend and Cardiff”.
So, proof of an established aerodrome in the vicinity of Bridgend now seems pretty certain – but where was it situated? Any ideas?
BRIDGEND: Military airstrip
Military user: US First Army ‘V’ Corps, 2nd Infantry Division, 12th Field Artillery Battalion
Location: ?
Period of operation: 1944/5 only?
NOTES: It appears that just two Piper L-4 Grasshoppers were based here.
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