Westley
WESTLEY: Civil aerodrome later military aerodrome (aka BURY-St-EDMUNDS AIRPORT)
Note: This picture was obtained from Google Earth ©
Military user: WW2: RAF Technical Training 28 Group
268 Sqdn (Westland Lysanders)
Belgium Training School
652, 656, 657 & 662 AOP Sqdns (Austers)
Operated by: 1930s: Prentice Aircraft Services, later Bury-St-Edmunds Airport and in 1938/9 Southern Airways
British airline user: 1930s: Southern Airways
Aero Club: 1930s: West Suffolk Aero Club
Location: S of A.45, E of Westley, just WSW of Bury St Edmunds
Period of operation: 1934 to 1945
Runways: 1934 to 1939: 17 acres E/W 366 grass NW/SE 274 grass
WW2: NE/SW 640 grass E/W 503 grass NW/SE 457 grass
N/S 613 grass
NOTES: In the 1930s Mr Whitney Straight, (i.e. the Straight Corporation), formed Southern Airways based at CHIGWELL, (aka ILFORD AIRPORT), in ESSEX from where they operated services to RAMGATE in KENT, and IPSWICH and WESTLEY in SUFFOLK.
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