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Balado
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Balado
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Airfield Today:
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Balado
Activity Centre, agriculture
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Tower Type:
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Watch Office for Fighter
Satellite Station variously updated to patterns 4520/41, 8142/41, 7332/42
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Tower:
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Modernised
into offices for Activity Centre 1997
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Other
Buildings:
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Few
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History:
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03/42 to 06/44, Opened as a satellite to Grangemouth,
No. 58 OTU training fighter pilots with Spitfires. 10/43, Renamed 2 Tactical
Excercise Unit. Airfield taken over by the War Department 11/1944, used
post-war for scrapping ex-Fleet Air Arm aircraft up to 1952.Used from 1946 for light aircraft and gliding until final closure in 1957. |
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Balado
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PQ coded Spitfires of 58 OTU in 1942
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Toni
Murkowski 1942
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RAF Station
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Airfield:
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Operational Training
Unit
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Opened:
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30/03/1942
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Closed:
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1957
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ID Code:
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?
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USAAF Station:
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N/A
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Runways:
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2x - concrete
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Hangars:
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1x - B1, 1x - Super
Robin, 4x - Blister
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County:
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Tayside, Scotland
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Location:
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2 miles west of Kinross
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OS Ref:
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NO095035
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©:
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All photos supplied
by and © Douglas Alexander, Balado Activity Centre.
In 2001 Toni Murkowski, a Polish airman who trained here in 1942, returned and kindly lent the photographs above. |
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2001
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RAF
Balado Bridge airfield www.controltowers.co.uk © robert truman 2001
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