RAF North Luffenham

52.6322, -0.6106 — view on OpenStreetMap ↗

About

RAF North Luffenham opened in Rutland in 1941 as a Bomber Command heavy-bomber station in No. 5 Group, flying types such as the Avro Manchester. After the war it took on a remarkable variety of roles: from 1951 it was the first NATO airfield in Europe, home to a Royal Canadian Air Force fighter wing, then from 1959 a base for Thor ballistic missiles, and later a centre for aviation medicine and language training. The RAF gave it up in 1997, and it now serves the Army as St George’s Barracks.

Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including North Luffenham — Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust and RAF North Luffenham — 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 North Luffenham airfield. the technical site with two T2 hangars are at the left (west). there are three more T2 hangars and the bomb dump north of the perimeter track, 2 March 1944. There are a large number of aircraft parked on the north/south crosswind runway and on the hardstand loops around the perimeter track. Photograph taken by No. 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit, sortie number US/7PH/GP/LOC190. English Heritage (USAAF Photography).
ⓘ licence & creditUnited States Army Air Forces / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RAF_North_Luffenham_-_2_Mar_1944_Airphoto.jpgView source & full licence →

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