RAF Shoreham
About
Shoreham Airport in Sussex, which opened in 1911, is the oldest purpose-built commercial airfield in the country still in use. In the Second World War it served as an air-sea rescue and communications station and a fighter field, its squadrons flying Westland Lysanders, Supermarine Spitfires and Bristol Beaufighters — including the air-sea rescue Lysanders of No. 277 Squadron and a Free French Spitfire squadron that supported D-Day. It returned to civil flying after the war and remains active as Brighton City Airport, its 1936 Art Deco terminal a listed landmark.
Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including RAF Shoreham (Brighton City Airport) — Wikipedia and Shoreham — Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. 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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