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Tehidy

Decoy
County: Cornwall
Current Status: Open land
Date: 15 July 1941 (earliest known date) - 1944
Current Use: Disused
Used By: RAF
Decoy Type(s): Q
Decoy Number(s): 111(a)

Tehidy operated as the decoy airfield for Portreath during World War Two. The control shelter still survives.

 

The following organisations are either based at, use and/or have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 31/12/2015):

  • Illogan Parish Council

Footage of the decoy site at Tehidy. Courtesy of Phil in Cornwall

Parent(s)/HQ Airfield(s):

Portreath

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