RAF Longtown
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RAF Longtown stood in Cumberland near the Scottish border, north of Carlisle, and opened in 1941. Though it briefly hosted a Spitfire squadron, its main work was training: a succession of operational training units and heavy conversion units used the airfield to prepare fighter, coastal and bomber crews, the station passing from Fighter Command to Coastal Command in 1943. Flying ended in 1946, and the site has since returned to farmland, partly given over to a wind farm.
Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including Longtown — Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust and RAF Longtown — 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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