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Here is a read only link to the Aerodrome Database - WhichAerodrome.xlsx. Up to date as of 1/5/2019. Catching up slowly - up to May 2019 now (Mar 2020).
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Which Aerodrome Mk III
Cricklade, Glos is the first airfield, now the site of a tall radio/TV mast and not far from Blunsden Station on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway where you can book a course to drive a steam locomotive. Did you mean 'country' or 'county' for the other airfield? It looks a bit like High Ercall.
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Blakehill Farm was easy I have flown over it loads of times. I don't think the second airfield is in Wiltshire though. I wondered if the connection is that both airfields were used to launch gliders for the D Day and Arnhem attacks.
Yes, Blakehill Farm it is!
The other aerodrome is in what used to be known as the Principality of Wales, but is now more properly a country following ISO / BSI reclassification last year.
And the connection is post-WW2......
The other aerodrome is in what used to be known as the Principality of Wales, but is now more properly a country following ISO / BSI reclassification last year.
And the connection is post-WW2......
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The association being......??
DEFENCE Radar Transmitter, Pembrokeshire
Mr. Nicholas Bennett : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what factors dictated the location of the proposed over-the-horizon radar transmitter on the site of the former St. David's airfield, Pembrokeshire.
Mr. Alan Clark : The principal factors dictating the location of the proposed over-the-horizon radar transmitter were the need for it to be situated on broadly the same latitude as the receiver but separated by a substantial distance ; and the need to ensure that, together with the safety exclusion zone that surrounds it, it could be comfortably accommodated within the boundary of an existing MOD site without affecting other activities at that site. After a survey of 166 possible sites throughout the United Kingdom, St. David's airfield was selected as the only suitable location for the transmitter, in conjunction with the only suitable location for the receiver at Blakehill radio station, Wiltshire.
Mr. Nicholas Bennett : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what factors dictated the location of the proposed over-the-horizon radar transmitter on the site of the former St. David's airfield, Pembrokeshire.
Mr. Alan Clark : The principal factors dictating the location of the proposed over-the-horizon radar transmitter were the need for it to be situated on broadly the same latitude as the receiver but separated by a substantial distance ; and the need to ensure that, together with the safety exclusion zone that surrounds it, it could be comfortably accommodated within the boundary of an existing MOD site without affecting other activities at that site. After a survey of 166 possible sites throughout the United Kingdom, St. David's airfield was selected as the only suitable location for the transmitter, in conjunction with the only suitable location for the receiver at Blakehill radio station, Wiltshire.
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Correct. The relocatable over-the-horizon radar was to have included a transmitter site at St. David's airfield and a receiver site at Blakehill Farm disused airfield. It was cancelled in 1991 due to pressure on the defence budget during GW1 and the post-Cold War dividend.
You have control, Lordflasheart, as your answer was the most complete!
You have control, Lordflasheart, as your answer was the most complete!
...... as your answer was the most complete!
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Gents, Sorry for the delay I have just got home from that awful MOD office complex near Filton. It made my day to get one I have looked at this thread hundreds of times and the only ones I have ever known the answe to somebody has beaten me to it.
Its certainly Open House from me. Once again sorry for the delay.
Its certainly Open House from me. Once again sorry for the delay.
