RAF Panshanger airfield

Panshanger
(Holywell Hyde)

(© Fred Cubberley)

RAF Panshanger airfield

Panshanger airfield, housing

Type and date of building not known

Other Buildings:

Used pre-war as a landing ground by No. 1 Elementary and Reserve Flying Training School Tiger Moths from Hatfield.
/40 to 05/41, Used as a decoy airfield for the de Havilland factory at Hatfield with the construction of dummy hangars.
06/41 to 03/53, No. 1 Elementary Flying Training School from Hatfield using the airfield as a relief landing ground training pilots. 09/42, No. 1 EFTS moved here permanently. 09/43, Airfield renamed RAF Panshanger. 05/47, Renamed No. 1 Reserve Flying School and 04/50, re-equipped with DH Chipmunks.

1987 (© Brian Perryman)

Flying Training, ERFTS, EFTS, RFS

12 miles N of Hitchin

RAF Panshanger airfield

RAF Panshanger airfield
Airfield Today:	Panshanger airfield, housing
Tower Type:	Type and date of building not known
Tower:	Demolished
Other Buildings:	Not known
History:	Used pre-war as a landing ground by No. 1 Elementary and Reserve Flying Training School Tiger Moths from Hatfield. /40 to 05/41, Used as a decoy airfield for the de Havilland factory at Hatfield with the construction of dummy hangars. 06/41 to 03/53, No. 1 Elementary Flying Training School from Hatfield using the airfield as a relief landing ground training pilots. 09/42, No. 1 EFTS moved here permanently. 09/43, Airfield renamed RAF Panshanger. 05/47, Renamed No. 1 Reserve Flying School and 04/50, re-equipped with DH Chipmunks.

RAF Station
Airfield:	Flying Training, ERFTS, EFTS, RFS
Opened:	/1941
Closed:	/1953
Code:	PG
USAAF Station:	N/A
Runways:	4x Grass
Hangars:	7x - Blisters
County:	Hertfordshire
Location:	12 miles N of Hitchin
OS Ref:	TL278128
©:	All photographs copyright © as stated