Gransden Lodge Airfield

Gransden Lodge Airfield
IATA: none – ICAO: none
Summary
Airport type		Airfield, former RAF Bomber station
Operator		Private
Location		Gransden Lodge, Cambridgeshire
Elevation AMSL		229 ft / 70 m
Coordinates		52°10′54″N 000°06′49″W
Map
Gransden Lodge Airfield Locatiion in Cambridgeshire

Gransden Lodge Airfield is a former wartime airfield 10 mi (16 km) from Cambridge, England.

The Cambridge University Gliding Club (now Cambridge Gliding Centre) moved to Gransden Lodge in October 1991, having previously shared Duxford Airfield with the Imperial War Museum Duxford.

RAF Gransden Lodge

Gransden Lodge opened in April 1942 as an operational bomber airfield with three concrete runways. At the end of 1945 the airfield was transferred to Transport Command but the last operational squadron was disbanded in February 1946. The RAF station closed in 1955 and it was also used for some motor races.

Operational Units

Squadron	Date	Aircraft
No. 53 Squadron RAF	Formed December 1945	Consolidated Liberator
No. 97 Squadron RAF	Detachments from RAF Bourn in 1943 and 1944	Avro Lancaster
No. 142 Squadron RAF	Formed at Gransden Lodge in October 1944	de Havilland Mosquito
No. 169 Squadron RAF	Operated from Gransden Lodge in March 1943	North American Mustang
No. 192 Squadron RAF	Formed at Gransden Lodge in January 1943	Vickers Wellington, de Havilland Mosquito, Handley Page Halifax
No. 405 Squadron RCAF	Moved to Gransden Lodge in April 1943	Avro Lancaster
No. 421 Squadron RCAF	Operated from Gransden Lodge in March 1943	Supermarine Spitfire
No. 692 Squadron RAF	Moved to Gransden Lodge inb June 1945	de Havilland Mosquito

References

• Jefford, Wing Commander C.G., MBE,BA,RAF (Retd). RAF Squadrons, a Comprehensive Record of the Movement and Equipment of all RAF Squadrons and their Antecedents since 1912. Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK: Airlife Publishing, 2001. ISBN 1-84037-141-2.

External links

• Wartime information
• Gransden Lodge Airfield history
• Cambridge Gliding Centre