RAF Little Staughton

52.2411, -0.3660 — view on OpenStreetMap ↗

About

RAF Little Staughton, in the far north of Bedfordshire, was built in 1941 and first used by the USAAF as an air depot before returning to the RAF in 1944 as a No. 8 (Pathfinder) Group station. No. 109 Squadron flew Oboe-equipped de Havilland Mosquitoes and No. 582 Squadron flew Avro Lancasters from it, marking and leading attacks on German targets. The station closed after the war, and the site is now a mix of farmland, industrial use and light aviation, with the control tower and a hangar surviving.

Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including Little Staughton — Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust and RAF Little Staughton — Wikipedia. The text is original and has been written from factual source material; no source text has been copied unless specifically quoted and attributed.

Photographs

Aerial photograph of Little Staughton airfield looking north, the technical site and barrack sites are to the right, 10 February 1944. Photograph taken by 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, sortie number US/7PH/GP/LOC173. English Heritage (USAAF Photography).
ⓘ licence & creditUnited States Army Air Forces / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RAF_Little_Staughton_-_10_Feb_1944_Airphoto.jpgView source & full licence →
Disused WW2 runway. Picture taken at the end of the runway of the old wartime base of 109 and 582 squadrons of Bomber Command near Great Staughton.
ⓘ licence & creditMike Fowkes / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Disused_WW2_runway._-_geograph.org.uk_-_171189.jpgView source & full licence →
Bedford airfield. Fence and old buildings
ⓘ licence & creditOliver White / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bedford_airfield_-_geograph.org.uk_-_172628.jpgView source & full licence →
Back entrance to airfield. "Emergency vehicles only"
ⓘ licence & creditOliver White / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Back_entrance_to_airfield_-_geograph.org.uk_-_172632.jpgView source & full licence →

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