Abbots Bromley

ABBOTS BROMLEY: Military aerodrome  
(Note:  See also listing for nearby YEATSALL FARM)

Note:  These three pictures are from my Google Earth © derived database.
 

Military user:    RAF (Training Command)          Elementary Flying Training School

5 EFTS
 

Location:    4.5nm S of Uttoxeter

Period of operation:  Military:  1940 to 1945         

 

Runways:    WW2:       All-over grass listed as approx:      N/S 600 x E/W 600

NOTES:  It appears that 5 EFTS, based at MEIR, first used this aerodrome from mid 1940 until December 1941.

Listed in 1944 as having one officer, 4 NCOs and 70 other ranks.

 

 

 
 

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Martin

This comment was written on: 2018-08-15 18:26:04
 
Abbots Bromley... please note the old military airfield is a completely separate site to the active farm strip at Yeatshall Farm. The article could be interpreted to read it’s the same site chronologically.
 

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