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Old 28th Nov 2015, 16:14
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There's a private strip at Stretton, but it doesn't incorporate the main runways (RNAS Stretton, the old HMS Blackcap, is divided by the M56 motorway with most of the runways south of the motorway).

RNAS Burscough (the old HMS Ringtail) is near Ormskirk and I did parachute flying from there in the early '80s. I think the runway has deteriorated considerably since then, and the control tower has gone.

Both airfields were busy in WW2 handling aircraft flown off carriers in the Mersey at Liverpool.
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