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Gransden Lodge

Major
Also known as: Gransden / Gransden Lodge Aerodrome / RAF Gransden Lodge
County: Cambridgeshire
Current Status: Aviation / Farmland
Date: February 1942 - February 1946 (closed to flying); subsequent limited flying to present
Current Use: Limited flying
Used By: RAF / RCAF / Civil (limited flying)
Landing Surface Types: Paved, later unpaved
Aircraft Roles: Bomber (main role) / Electronic warfare / Fighter / Fighter-reconnaissance / General aviation (limited flying)/ Military development/support / Trainer / Transport

The following organisations are either based at, use and/or have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 01/09/2011):

  • Gransden Airfield Shooting Ground
  • Great Gransden Parish Council - north side of airfield
  • Little Gransden Parish Council - south side of airfield
  • Longstowe Parish Council - south-east side of airfield

Main unit(s) present:

  • No 53 Sqn

  • No 97 Sqn

  • No 142 Sqn

  • No 169 Sqn

  • No 192 Sqn

  • No 405 Sqn

  • No 421 Sqn

  • No 692 Sqn

  • No 1418 Flight

  • No 1474 (Special Duties) Flight

  • No 1507 BAT Flight
  • No 1696 (Bomber) Defence Training Flight

  • No 2708 Sqn RAF Regiment
  • No 2784 Sqn RAF Regiment
  • Bombing Development Unit
  • Cambridge Gliding Centre
  • Cambridge University GC

  • Pathfinder Navigation Training Unit

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Part of the perimeter track at Gransden Lodge, 24 June 2007.

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Aerial view of Gransden Lodge, 5 April 2009. © Richard Flagg

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Aerial view of Gransden Lodge, 5 April 2009. © Richard Flagg

Motor racing returns after the war at Gransden Lodge, 1947. Courtesy of British Pathé

Land yachting at Gransden Lodge in the 1950s. Courtesy of John Davison Snr.

Land yachts racing at Gransden Lodge, 1963. Courtesy of British Pathé

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