Bowers Landing Ground
BOWERS LANDING GROUND: Military airstrip/airfield (Aka BRETTON)
Military users: RAF:
5 FTS [Flying Training School] ( Hawker Harts in 1937)
Location: In/near Bretton village area which is just N of the A55, just S of the A5104 and roughly 3.5nm SW to WSW of Chester city centre
NOTES: This small Landing Ground was quickly encompassed during WW2 by the much larger HAWARDEN airfield which doubled as a RAF Fighter Station and, of course, a major factory for Vickers, mostly building Wellington bombers.
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