Originally Posted by
teusje
Peterborough Conington, aka RAF Glatton, Open house if correct, please, as I'll be out of town tomorrow.
You've got it, teusje, just pipping OUAQ.
RAF Glatton, just off the Great North Road in Cambridgeshire. Now known as Conington airfield (hence my comment to chevvron that he was very close with Honington, although not necessarily geographically so). I popped in on one of my airfield-visiting meanders down south last year. A nice memorial on the old Great North Road honouring the brave souls who served there, and also some interesting photos of the old air base in the club house. I also took a photo looking down the runway, in remembrance of the brave men for whom it was the last piece of Earth they felt rumbling beneath their feet.
The nearest village is Conington, but I'm sure I read or heard somewhere that they called the base RAF Glatton (another village just across the Great North Road) to avoid confusion with Coningsby - and now chevvron mentions it, maybe Honington as well.
teusje has called Open House.