RAF Sawbridgeworth

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About

RAF Sawbridgeworth was a grass airfield in Hertfordshire, in use from the First World War and serving in the Second as an army-cooperation and reconnaissance station. Its main resident, No. 2 Squadron, flew Westland Lysanders, Curtiss Tomahawks and North American Mustangs on tactical reconnaissance, and many other army-cooperation units passed through. Flying ended in 1946, and the site has returned to farmland, much of its concrete perimeter track still visible.

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Photographs

Royal Air Force Army Co-operation Command, 1940-1943. A North-American Mustang Mark I, AL995 'XV-S', of No. 2 Squadron RAF, undergoes an overhaul on its dispersal point at Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, as another aircraft of the squadron overflys the airfield.
ⓘ licence & creditRoyal Air Force official photographer, Daventry B J (Fg Off) / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Air_Force_Army_Co-operation_Command,_1940-1943._CH17407.jpgView source & full licence →
Royal Air Force Army Co-operation Command, 1940-1943. A North American Mustang of No. 2 Squadron RAF, takes off from Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, past a Commer Q2 mobile wireless van providing air to ground communications. To the left, a De Havilland Dragon Rapide communications aircraft is parked in on o fhe dispersals.
ⓘ licence & creditDaventry B J H (Fg Off), Royal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Air_Force_Army_Co-operation_Command,_1940-1943._CH17402.jpgView source & full licence →
PictionID:40971199 - Title:Mustang North American Mustang Mk.I AG550 _XV-U_ No.2 Sqd RAF based at Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire 1942 - Catalog:15_002825 - Filename:15_002825.tif - Image from the Charles Daniels Photo Collection album "US Army Aircraft."----PLEASE TAG this image with any information you know about it, so that we can permanently store this data with the original image file in our Digital Asset Management System.----SOURCE INSTITUTION: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
ⓘ licence & creditSan Diego Air & Space Museum Archives / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mustang_North_American_Mustang_Mk.I_AG550_XV-U_No.2_Sqd_RAF_based_at_Sawbridgeworth,_Hertfordshire_1942_(15954744507).jpgView source & full licence →
American Aircraft in Royalair Force Service 1939-1945- North American Na 73 and Na 102 Mustang. Mustang Mark I, AG456 ‘XV-B’, of No. 2 Squadron RAF, preparing to depart on a reconnaissance practice flight at Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire.
ⓘ licence & creditRoyal Air Force official photographer, Daventry B J (Fg Off) / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:American_Aircraft_in_Royalair_Force_Service_1939-1945-_North_American_Na_73_and_Na_102_Mustang._CH17401.jpgView source & full licence →
IWM caption : A North-American Mustang Mark I, AL995 'XV-S', of No. 2 Squadron RAF, undergoes an overhaul on its dispersal point at Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, as another aircraft of the squadron overflys the airfield.
ⓘ licence & creditDaventry B J (Fg Off), Royal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2_Squadron_Mustangs_at_RAF_Sawbridgeworth_WWII_IWM_CH_17407.jpgView source & full licence →

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