Gransden Lodge Airfield

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Gransden Lodge Airfield is a former wartime airfield 10 miles from Cambridge, England.

The Cambridge Gliding Centre moved to Gransden Lodge in October 1991, having previously shared Duxford Airfield with the Imperial War Museum Duxford

Contents 1 RAF Gransden Lodge 1.1 Operational Units 2 References 3 External links

[edit] RAF Gransden Lodge

Gransden Lodge opened in April 1942 as an operational bomber base with three concrete runways. At the end of 1945 the airfield was transferred to Transport Command but the last operational squadron was disbanded in February 1946. The RAF station closed in 1955.

[edit] Operational Units

• No. 53 Squadron RAF - Moved to Gransden Lodge in December 1945 and operated:
  • Consolidated Liberator
• No. 97 Squadron RAF - Detachments from RAF Bourn in 1943 and 1944, operating:
  • Avro Lancaster
• No. 142 Squadron RAF - Formed at Gransden Lodge in October 1944 and operated:
  • de Havilland Mosquito
• No. 169 Squadron RAF - Operated from Gransden Lodge in March 1943 operating:
  • North American Mustang
• No. 192 Squadron RAF - Formed at Gransden Lodge in January 1943 and operated:
  • de Havilland Mosquito
  • Handley Page Halifax
  • Vickers Wellington
• No. 405 Squadron RCAF -Moved to Gransden Lodge in April 1943 and operated:
  • Avro Lancaster
• No. 421 Squadron RCAF - Operated from Gransden Lodge in March 1943 operating:
  • Supermarine Spitfire
• No. 692 Squadron RAF - Moved to Gransden Lodge inb June 1945 and operated:
  • de Havilland Mosquito

[edit] References

• G G Jefford, RAF Squadrons, second edition 2001, Airlife Publishing, UK, ISBN 1-84037-141-2.

[edit] External links

• Wartime information