Originally Posted by
FantomZorbin
I believe that Watton was being used by USAF until quite recently (within the last 5 years) for air-dropping.
Having been stationed at Watton and a member of a 'Pheasant Pluckers' fb group I feel reasonably up to date, Watton camp is now a residential housing estate complete with corner shops, the hangars are gone (I think) and with much, if not all, of the runway dug up in favour of agriculture.
The USAF never came dropping even when we were active but it was fun of a Friday afternoon when the likes of A10 pairs would give us a beat-up at Eastern Radar
You might be thinking of the nearby Stanford PTA, where all the outside filming of Dad's Army was filmed, a totally sealed off area and ideal for dropping