RAF Ringway
About
RAF Ringway, on the southern edge of Manchester, opened in 1938 and played a role out of all proportion to its size. It was the home of No. 1 Parachute Training School, where tens of thousands of Allied paratroops and Special Operations Executive agents learned to jump, and a major centre of aircraft production, Fairey and Avro building thousands of warplanes there. The RAF left in 1957, and the field has grown into Manchester Airport, one of the busiest in the country.
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