RAF Lulsgate Bottom
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RAF Lulsgate Bottom was laid out on the Mendip plateau in Somerset and declared operational in 1942 as a flying-training station. Advanced flying units, a flying instructors’ school and No. 286 Squadron used it, flying types such as the Airspeed Oxford, Miles Master and Hawker Hurricane, and civil airline crews also trained there. The RAF gave it up in 1946, but in 1957 the airfield reopened as Bristol’s municipal airport; greatly developed since, it is now Bristol Airport, one of the busiest in the country.
Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including Lulsgate Bottom — Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust and RAF Lulsgate Bottom (Bristol Airport) — 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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