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Hinstock
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Bungalow
Watch Office with the later Navy tower in the background 1992
(© Adrian Morris)
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Hinstock
airfield, HMS Godwit
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Airfield Today:
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Agriculture
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Tower Type:
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1. Satellite Landing
Ground 'Bungalow' type Watch Office
2. Standard Naval 4 storey |
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Tower:
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1.
Demolished
2. Control tower to be converted into a house |
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Other
Buildings:
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Many
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History:
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10/41 to 6/43, Opened to 37 MU from Burtonwood
as 21 Satellite Landing Ground called Ollerton. Transferred to 27 MU from
Shawbury.
7/43 to 1/46, Transferred to the Royal Navy and renamed Hinstock. Then
used as a satellite to Stretton while it was rebuilt with steel track
runways and reopened as
HMS Godwit 6/43. Used for
instrument and blind flying training, main Sqns 758 Sqn Naval Advanced
Instrument Flying School and 739 Sqn Blind Approach Devolopment Unit.
Many aircraft types here including Anson, Oxford, Swordfish, Harvard,
Barracuda, Firefly and Whitley. Flying transferred to Peplow when this
airfield was closed. |
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Hinstock
airfield, HMS Godwit
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2001
(©
Robert Truman)
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Hinstock
airfield, HMS Godwit
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Airfield:
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Instrument Flying Training
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Opened:
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10/1941
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Closed:
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02/1947
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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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grass then 1 steel matting
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Hangars:
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Many, exact type and
quantity unknown
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County:
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Shropshire
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Location:
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4 miles SW of Market
Drayton
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OS Ref:
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SJ660265
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Links:
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©:
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All photographs copyright
© as stated
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Hinstock
airfield, HMS Godwit
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2001
(©
Robert Truman)
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Hinstock
airfield, HMS Godwit
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1961
(© Peter J Broom)
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Control
tower now converted into a house 2004
(©
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Hinstock
airfield, HMS Godwit
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airfield
+ control tower = www.controltowers.co.uk © robert truman 2003
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