RAF Langar
About
RAF Langar opened in Nottinghamshire in 1942 as a Bomber Command station in No. 5 Group, with No. 207 Squadron flying Avro Lancasters from it; the aircraft maker A.V. Roe also ran a repair and maintenance line on the airfield. From late 1943 it was used by the United States Army Air Forces as a troop-carrier base, its Douglas C-47s taking part in the airborne operations of 1944. After the war it served for over a decade as RCAF Langar, the Royal Canadian Air Force’s main supply base for its squadrons in Europe. The airfield is still active today, best known as a parachuting centre, with wartime hangars and the control tower surviving.
Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including Langar — Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust and RAF Langar — Wikipedia. The text is original and has been written from factual source material; no source text has been copied unless specifically quoted and attributed.
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