Eye (Brome)
Major
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"The world’s first power generating plant fuelled by poultry litter was opened at Eye on the Oaksmere Business Park which accommodates numerous other companies.
"| Also known as: | Brome Industrial Park / Eye Airfield Industrial Estate / Mid Suffolk Business Park / Oaksmere Business Park / RAF Eye / RAF Station, Eye / USAAF Station 134 |
| County: | Suffolk |
| Current Status: | Industry |
| Date: | February 1944 - 20 August 1946; subsequent minor use |
| Current Use: | Disused |
| Used By: | Civil (minor use) / USAAF (main user) |
| Landing Surface Types: | Paved |
| Aircraft Roles: | Bomber (main role) / General aviation (minor use) |
The following organisations are either based at, use and/or have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 01/09/2011):
- Allbolts
- Anglia Freight Ltd
- Anglia Skips Ltd
- Animed Direct
- Bartrum Group Ltd
- Brome & Oakley Parish Council
- C&K Meats
- Country Homes (Anglia) Ltd
- Creative Vinyl
- CW Logistics Limited
- D S A Motorwerks
- EPR Eye Limited
- Equimark Horseboxes Limited
- Eye Library
- Eye Town Council
- Fibropower Ltd
- J & D Refrigerated Ltd
- JDP Eye
- Liberta UK
- MINI CHALLENGE
- MRCT (Moores Refrigeration Controlled Transport Limited)
- MV & Sons Training Services Ltd
- Permastore Limited
- Rosemary & Thyme
- Roy Humphrey (Car & Commercial)
- Stramit Panel Products
- Thrandeston Parish Council
- Wind Prospect Group Ltd
- Workwear (East Anglia) Ltd
- Yaxley Parish Council
The following alternative information/mass media sources have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 30/11/2018):
- Yaxley Community Website
Main unit(s) present:
- 490th BG
- 848th BS
- 849th BS
- 850th BS
- 851st BS
- Eye Aviation Ltd
- Eye Fly GC
Looking south across Eye airfield, 13 June 2009. Photograph copyright © 2016 Nick Challoner, all rights reserved, www.challoner.com
Looking south-east across Eye airfield, 13 June 2009. Photograph copyright © 2016 Nick Challoner, all rights reserved, www.challoner.com