Raploch
RAPLOCH: Military aerodrome (Aka FALLENINCH and STIRLING)
Note: This site was later used, more or less, as a private airfield in the 1930s. See seperate entry (FALLENICH FARM)
Note: Mike Holder kindly provided the local map, the other two pictures based of Google Earth © images were from the author.
Military users: RFC/RAF (Royal Flying Corps / Royal Air Force) Night Landing Ground
77 [Home Defence] Sqdn 1916 to 1917 (Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 & B.E.12 types)
Notes: Apparently used by this Squadron as an ELG (Emergency Landing Ground)
RFC Training Squadron Station 1916 to 1917
43 [Training] Sqdn (Various types, probably equipped with Sopwith 1½ Strutters before going to France)
RAF Summer Camp 1918
Location: Just NW of Stirling, S of the A84, E of the M9
Period of operation: 1916 to 1918 (Other sources claim used until 1939 which seems very doubtful, it then being used in the 1930s as a civil aerodrome)
Area: 48 hectares Orientated roughly SW/NE 1250 x 490
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