Goxhill
GOXHILL: Military Landing Ground
Military user: RFC Used as a Night Landing Ground
33 (Home Defence) Sqdn
Location: Near or perhaps the same site as the WW2 airfield listed below?
Period of operation: 1916
GOXHILL: Military aerodrome
Note: This picture (2017) was obtained from Google Earth ©
Yet another example of a WW2 airfield which, when viewed from above some seventy years later, can still be clearly defined.
Military users: WW2: 8th USAAF 65th Fighter Wing
496th Fighter Training Group
554 & 555 Sqdns (North American P.51 Mustangs)
Combat Crew Replacement Centre
Location: E of Goxhill, 5nm E of Barrow on Humber
Period of operation: 1941 to 1953
Runways: WW2: 07/25 1463x46 hard 01/19 1006x46 hard
13/31 1006x46 hard
NOTES
In the July edition of Light Aviation magazine, an interesting detail emerged. A de Havilland DH82A Tiger Moth (G-BTOG) had recently been restored and painted in the colours of DE745, one of several Tiger Moths assigned to the USAAF 353rd Fighter Group for communication duties. These aircraft retained their RAF camoulflage and serial numbers, but had the USAAF 'star' in a circle rather than RAF roundels.
MORE NOTES: Thank heavens I decided, right from the start, to call this project a 'Guide'. A task which is of course impossible to ever complete. As more information comes to light, the picture changes. In 2022, Mr Graham Frost, a great friend of this 'Guide', tells us that the Percival P.40 Prentice T.1, G-APJE (ex VS282), was registered to Mill Air Ltd and based here from 13.08.62 until 27.02.69 when it was declared PWFU (Permanently Withdrawn From Use).
If anybody can kindly shed some light on the operations of Mill Air, this will be much appreciated. I imagine it was probably engaged in performing joy-rides at various locations?
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