RAF North Luffenham

England

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.

Photographs

Aerial photograph of [North Luffenham](/airfields/6283/) 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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