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LONGTOWN: Military aerodrome

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Military users: WW2: RAF Transport & Training Command       44 Group

6 & 9 (Coastal)  OTU  [Operational Training Unit]

55 & 59  OTU

1332 (Transport)  HCU  [Heavy Conversion Unit]
 
1521 BAT  (Beam Approach Training)    [Radio Aids Training Flight]

1674  HCU  (Heavy Conversion Unit) 

 

Location: ENE of Brisco Hill & NE of Whitesyke villages, N of the A607 (now the A6071) , roughly 7nm NNE of Carlisle town centre

Period of operation: 1941 to 1946


Runways: 02/20   1262x46   hard          15/33   1052x46   hard
                08/26   1829x46   hard

 

 

 

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