RAF Stansted Mountfitchet

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Photograph of RAF Stansted Mountfitchet
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About

RAF Stansted Mountfitchet opened in Essex in 1943 as a United States Army Air Forces base, serving both as a bomber airfield for the Martin B-26 Marauders of the 344th Bombardment Group and as a major maintenance and supply depot overhauling Marauders for the Ninth Air Force. After D-Day the depot work moved to the Continent and the station passed to RAF storage use. From 1949 it was developed for civil aviation and has since grown into London Stansted Airport.

Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including London Stansted Airport — Wikipedia and Stansted Mountfitchet — 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.

Photographs

B-26 of the 344th Bomb Group, Stanstead Airfield England - World War II.
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B-26 Serial 43-34181 of the 495th Bombardment Squadron, Stansted Airfield England - World War II.
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ⓘ licence & creditPhotograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:At_London_2025_022.jpgView source & full licence →
ⓘ licence & creditPhotograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:At_London_2025_021.jpgView source & full licence →
Aerial photograph of the USAAF 2d Tactical Air Depot oriented north, located to the northeast of the Stansted Mountfichet Airfield 8 May 1948.
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