Shipdham
Major
Also known as: | RAF Shipdham / Shipdham Aerodrome / Shipdham Airfield Industrial Estate / USAAF Station 115 |
County: | Norfolk |
Current Status: | Aviation / Industry |
Date: | Opened June 1942 |
Current Use: | Active |
Used By: | Civil / USAAF |
Landing Surface Types: | Paved |
The following organisations are either based at, use and/or have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 01/09/2011):
- 44th Bomb Group Veterans Association
- All Saints Church, Shipdham
- Cranworth Parish Council
- Falcon Crane Hire Ltd
- H G Pledger (Haulage) Ltd
- H G Pledger (Storage) Ltd
- Naturediet Pet Foods
- Shipdham Parish Council
- TBL Concrete Ltd
- V J Commercials Ltd
- Warehouse Solutions (East Anglia) Limited
- Whinburgh & Westfield Parish Council
Main unit(s) present:
- 44th BG
- 66th BS
- 67th BS
- 68th BS
- No 258 MU
- No 262 MU
- 319th BG
- 437th BS
- 438th BS
- 439th BS
- 440th BS
- 506th BS
- Arrow Air Services
- Shipdham Flying Club
Footage of the 44th Bomb Group at Shipdam during the Second World War. Courtesy of vespasean21
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