A IRFIELD R ESEARCH G ROUP M AGAZINE . C ONTENTS TO J UNE 2017

Four Decades of the Airfield Research Group Magazine

Contents Index from December 1977 to June 2017

1 9 7 7 1 9 8 7 1 9 9 7 6 pages 28 pages 40 pages

© Airfield Research Group 2017 2 0 0 7 2 0 1 7 40 pages Version 2: July 2017 48 pages

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AIRFIELD REVIEW

The Journal of the Airfield Research Group

The journal was initially called Airfield Report , then ARG Newsletter, finally becoming Airfield Review in 1985. The number of pages has varied from initially just 6, occasio- nally to up to 60 (a few issues in c.2004). Typically 44, recent journals have been 48.

There appear to have been three versions of the ARG index/ table of contents produced for the magazine since its conception. The first was that by David Hall c.1986, which was a very detailed publication and was extensively cross-referenced. For example if an article contained the sentence, ‘The squadron’s flights were temporarily located at Tangmere and Kenley’, then both sites would appear in the index. It also included titles of ‘Books Reviewed’ etc

Since then the list has been considerably simplified with only article headings noted. I suspect that to create a current cross-reference list would take around a day per magazine which equates to around eight months work and is clearly impractical.

The second version was then created in December 2009 by Richard Flagg with help from Peter Howarth, Bill Taylor, Ray Towler and myself.

A third index was then generated by the late Jim Hope in MS Excel spreadsheet format which made sorting by both date and article title very easy. Unfortunately it did not include numerous minor articles, many of which were extremely good.

So, this list has been compiled from Richard’s 2009 list and has been significantly updated. It was found there were a lot of inconsistencies in that list (not in any way due to Richard). These included confusingly and incorrectly titled articles, e.g. there would be a ‘ Part 2 ’ but apparently no ‘Part 1 ’. (This was often due to the original article having a different title).

Also many titles need augmenting, e.g. ‘ Two Control Towers’ (which two), Further Airfield Visits ? I have corrected a number of these, but there is still a lot more to be done; many titles offer no hint as to the article’s content. A title can be a multi-page in-depth article, or sometimes just a single fuzzy photograph. In essence each and every magazine needs to be appraised – a time-consuming job, akin to painting the Forth Bridge.

Hence this document is still very much work-in-progress. It is hoped that a future version will correct a significant number of these inconsistencies.

NB: the ‘regulars’ for the magazine are shown in green.

Updated and reformatted: Graham Crisp, July 2017

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AIRFIELD REPORT VOLUME 1 NO.1 – APPROX DEC 1977? (AR1) Editorial Visiting Airfields SLGs and RLGs Are You Aware or Did You Know?

AIRFIELD REPORT VOLUME 1 NO.2 – UNDATED (AR2) Editorial Broadwell Tower The Story of RAF Harrowbeer

AIRFIELD REPORT THEN BECAME ARG NEWSLETTER

ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 1 NO.3 – AUG 78 (AR3) Editorial Library Landings Where Have All the Aeroplanes Gone? Kings Cliffe – A Fighter Field Airfield Visit [Kings Cliffe]

ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 1 NO.4 – UNDATED (AR4) Editorial Group Visits Library Landings Exchanging Airfield Photographs Airfield Unusual Buildings at Langham,

ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 1 NO.5 – DEC 1978 / JAN 1979 (AR5) Editorial Library Landings Horsham St Faith Aerial Airfield Photos Whitchurch Kimbolton 1845

ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 1 NO.6 – UNDATED (AR6) Library Landings Editorial Horsham St Faith (Continued) RAF Bishop’s Court

ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 2 NO.1 – OCT 78? (AR7) Editorial Library Landings Book Reviews Society Working Day A Short History of RAF Digby RAF Station

ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 2 NO.2 – UNDATED (AR8) Editorial Library Landings RAF Station Winthorpe

ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 2 NO.3 – UNDATED (AR9) Editorial Thorpe Abbots A Visit to Framlingham Fowlmere, One or Two Airfields? Eight in Eight Hours (Notts / Leics area) The Half Moon Pub, Rushall

ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 2 NO.4 – UNDATED (AR10) Editorial Library Landings Area Group Leaders Mayday Column Disappearing Airfields Airfield and Airport Information Services Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire Desborough

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ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 2 NO.5 – UNDATED (AR11) Editorial Mayday Column Bitteswell, Leicestershire Disappearing Airfields Airfield Names A Visit to Tangmere Fred Cubberley Describes his Tower Visits, 1978 Further Airfield Visits North Witham

ARG N EWSLETTER VOL 2 N O.6 – (AR12) NOT PUBLISHED

ARG N EWSLETTER VOL 2 N O.7 – U N DAT E D (AR13) Editorial AGM Mayday Column Library Landings Publications Received Airfield Plans Airfield Snippets

ARG N EWSLETTER VOL 2 N O.8 – U N DAT E D (AR14) Editorial Mayday Column Important News RAF Moreton-in-Marsh Are You Hung Up on Hangars? Airfield Snippets RAF Edgehill Where is that Hangar Now?

ARG N EWSLETTER VOL 2 N O.9 – U N DAT E D (AR15) Editorial Minutes of 1980 Meeting Mayday Column What Do You Want? ARG Raffle Airfield Snippets Extra Snippets Airfield Spotlight Airfields in Norfolk

ARG N EWSLETTER VOL 2 N O.10 – U N DAT E D (AR16) Editorial Book Review Memories Passing Airfields More About Airfields – East Wretham Airfield Snippets Airfield Photographs Exchange The Castle Bromwich Airfield and Aircraft Factory A Visit to Scotland A Landmark

ARG N EWSLETTER VOL 2 N O.11 – U N DAT E D (AR17) Editorial Library Landings Mayday Column Eight Airfield Snippets A Reported Tour South Wales Airfields Newsletter Addendum

ARG N EWSLETTER VOL 2 N O.12 – U N DAT E D (AR18) Editorial Publications Received Disused Airfields as Industrial Archaeology Wash in wartime Tibenham, Norfolk A Journey, (Snailwell, Gransden etc) A History of RAF Common A Visit to RAF Bentley Priory, Stanmore Of Fuel and Fences, (GPSS)

ARG N EWSLETTER VOL 2 N O.13 – U N DAT E D (AR19) Editorial Mayday! Library Landings Airfields, (some minor sites in Norfolk) Pulham, After the Airships Basic History of RAF Cardington and Current Activities Locations of Airfields Airfield Snippets

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AR VOLUME THREE DOES NOT EXIST

ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 4 NO.1 – UNDATED (AR20) Editorial Library Landings Glatton – A Fen Airfield

ARG N EWSLETTER VO L 4 N O.2 – U N DAT E D (AR22) Editorial ARG Constitution and Rules Mayday Mayday Watch Office Chat Airfields in the News Airfield Snippets – South and South-West

ARG N EWSLETTER VOL 4 N O.3 – U N DAT E D (AR22) Editorial Library Landings Watch Office Chat A Brief History of RAF Oil Charter to Curacao, 1947 Style

ARG N EWSLETTER VOL 4 N O.4 – U N DAT E D (AR23) Mayday! Mayday! Broxbourne Firbeck, Yorks Recollections of Building a Base

ARG N EWSLETTER VOL 4 N O.5 – U N DAT E D (AR24) Editorial Airfield Snippets Watch Office Chat Radar Stations, South-West – WW II Warboys Chain Gang Walsall/Aldridge, Staffs

ARG N EWSLETTER VOL 4 N O.6 – U N DAT E D (AR25) Editorial Library Landings Bircham Newton (Norfolk) – UT to WWII Clifton (Part 1) Airfield Snippets Minor

ARG N EWSLETTER VOL 5 N O.1 – U N DAT E D (AR26) Editorial Library Landings A National Serviceman in , 1953–55 RNAS Crimond Goxhill,

ARG N EWSLETTER VOL 5 N O.2 – U N DAT E D (AR27) Chairman’s Report Editorial Library Landings Travelling Problems (various sites, , Wilts, ) Comments on Hangar Types RAF , 1944–45

ARG N EWSLETTER VOL 5 N O.3 – U N DAT E D (AR28) Editorial Library Landings Airfield News Mayday Column Barford St John (Oxon) Airfield Snippets Exotic Birds – South and South-West England RAF Kemble

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ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 5 NO.4 – DEC 1982 / JAN 1983 (AR29) Library Landings Seething, 1960 Stars and Stripes in the South-West Airfield Snippets Bircham Newton (continued) WWII to Date

ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 5 NO.5 – FEB / MAR 1983 (AR30) History of Middle Wallop, Hampshire Ancient Monuments Post-War Rackheath Old warden – Before the Open Days

ARG N EWSLETTER VO L 5 N O.6 – A P R /M AY 1983 (AR31) Editorial Library Landings Mayday! Mayday! Chairman’s Report Early Aviation at Aircraft Sheds / Hangars Sibson

ARG N EWSLETTER VOL 6 N O.1 / 2 ( DOUBLE ISSUE ) – U N DAT E D (AR32 / 33) Editorial Agenda Airfield News Library Landings Questionnaire Form Mayday! Mayday! The ARG and the Future Known Decoy Sites Inspecting Airfield Camouflage over Scotland RAF Yorkshire News Airfields in Northern Scotland Inter-War and WWII Watch Offices/Control Towers WWII USAAF Stations / Airfield Names

ARG N EWSLETTER VOL 6 N O.3 – J U N 1984 (AR34) Editorial AGM 84 Library Landings Amendments News and Information Old Buckenham, Norfolk Earlham Park, Norfolk Wroughton

ARG N EWSLETTER VOL 6 N O.4 – SE P 1984 (AR35) Library Landings Mayday! Mayday! Airfield Snippets Hemswell Wartime Two-Letter Identity Codes Rattlesden – Current Use Return to Methwold

ARG N EWSLETTER VOL 6 N O.5 – JAN 1985 (AR36) Chairman’s Letter Editorial Mayday! Mayday! Library Landings Airfield News and Snippets RAF , 1913–16 Nostalgia ( airfields) RAF Wanderings Harling Road Marham Blackbushe Airport Historical Research Project on Woodley , Reading

ARG NEWSLETTER THEN BECAME AIRFIELD REVIEW

AR VOL 7 N O.1 – J U N 1985 (AR37) Editorial AGM Report Airfield News RAF Molesworth Aircraft Arrester Gear Heacham, Norfolk WWII Airfield Construction No.28 Satellite Landing Ground, Barton Abbey No.274 Maintenance Unit, Swannington etc (Mosquito storage)

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AR VOL 7 N O.2 – J U L 1985 (AR38) Editorial Letters Airfield News Help wanted Memories of Hinstock Aerodrome Barrage Balloon Depots Development of Airfield Landing Grounds Airfield Building Types, No.1 – AML Bombing Teacher Airfields Abroad Lowestoft, Suffolk Southern wanderings RAF/AAC Netheravon

AR VOL 7 N O.3 – S E P 1985 (AR39) Current Research in Progress Editorial Readers Letters New Publications and Book reviews Airfield News South Marston – An Outline History Airfield Abroad Airfield Building Types, No.2 – Gymnasium/Church/Cinema Pre-history of Wroughton Airfield Early Memories of Oulton Jottings from Northern Ireland 816th Engineer Battalion in WWII Recollections of RAF Linton-on-Ouse

AR VOL 7 N O.4 – JAN 1986 (AR40) Editorial Readers' Letters Airfield News Airfields Abroad Book Reviews New Publications AAF Numbers, Revised RAF Foulsham, Part 1 South Marston -An Outline History, Part 2 RAF Lindholme Airfield Building Types, No.3 – Turret Trainer Building Short-lived East Anglian Aerodromes RAF Westley - Poling - A Mystery Airstrip The Development of Airfield Landing Grounds, Part 2 The Use of Barrage Balloons The Great Aerial Display - , 1929 Last Surviving Target Screen A Christmas Incident at Hinstock Postscript to Action Stations An introduction to Temporary Prefabricated Buildings A Recent Airfields Tour

AR VOL 8 N O.1 – M AY 1986 (AR41) Editorial Readers’ Letters Airfield News Airfield Memorials Book reviews Publications &New Publications Hampstead Norris RAF Foulsham, Part 2 Memories of a Wimbledon Childhood Hamble Happenings Waterbeach at War Airfields Abroad Current Research in Progress Ensbury Park, Bournemouth Airfield Building Types, No.4 – Stand-by Set Houses RAF Tilstock and Sleap AAF Numbers Update Mystery Photographs

AR VOL 8 N O.2 – U N DAT E D (AR42) Editorial Readers' Letters Airfield News Memorials Book Reviews RAF Hurn Seething Tower Restoration Airfield Building Types, No.5 – Bessonneau Hangar (Type H) Wander

AR VOL 8 N O.3 – S E P 1986 (AR43) Editorial Group News News Current Research In Progress Airfield Artwork Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington Aircraft Arrester Systems Airfields Abroad Y-Service Stations Tangmere Revisited, 17 August, 1986 The Demise of Woodley’s Wind Tunnel Mystery Photographs Airfield Building Types, No.6 – Development of the War Time Parachute Store

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AR VOL 8 N O.4 – U N DAT E D (AR44) Editorial Group News News Current Research in Progress Book Review Help Line Letters Memorials Llandow – The Story of an Airfield Mystery Photos Airfield Factories in the North West During the Second World War Airfield Building Types, No.7 – Wartime Control Towers. A New Interpretation?

AR VOL 9 N O.1 – U N DAT E D (AR45) Editorial Group News News Helpline Nostalgia Decoy Airfield at Houghton Pilot Training RAF Foulsham, Part 3 Lundy – An Aviation Enthusiasts Guide Machine Gun Mishaps on Airfields of the Eighth Memorials De Havillands, Salisbury Hall Airfield Building Types, No.8 – Watch Office With Tower (Fort Type), 1936–38 A Review of Statutory Listing and Aviation Associated Structures Standardisation of Code Symbols for Navigation Aids, March 1947 Rare Surviving 1913-type Aircraft Hangar with Murket Bros, in Germaine St, Huntingdon The Aircraft Industry and its Contribution to Solving the Housing Shortage of the Immediate Post War Period

AR VOL 9 N O.2 – U N DAT E D (AR46) Editorial Group News Back Issues Letters to the Editor Current Research Memorials News Wattisham – Tail of Two Units! Haddenham, Bucks Oakington, Stoke Orchard, Glos York / Clifton / Rawcliffe Aviation Societies Crail Airfield Building Types, No.9 – Link Trainer RAF Maintenance Units Military Glider Pilot Training, continued

AR VOL 9 N O.3 AN D 4 (DOUBLE ISSUE ) – AU G 1988 (AR47 / 48) Editorial Current Research Stall Book Reviews Memorials AA Landing Grounds Hesketh Park, Southport Airfield Building Types, No.10 – Torpedo Attack Trainer (TAT) Airfield Building Types, No.11 – World War One End Opening Hangars

AR VOL 10 N O.1 ( MARKED AS N O.2) – OC T 1988 (AR49) Editorial News & Group News Book Reviews Letters to the Editor Helpline Memorials

The Clubmobile, Memories from Dick Wickham Anthorn Airfield Plan Ashbourne Airfield, July 1988 Hard Aircraft Emplacements of WWII Restoration of the Aero Club House The Honington Raider Artists of the Eighth in East Anglia AML Bombing Teacher (Revised) Airfield Building Types, 12 – Decontamination Buildings Plan of Ayr Airfield The Supply of Explosives and Ammunition to the RAF during WWII, Part 1

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AR VOL 10 N O.2 – A P R 1989 (AR50) Editorial Letters to the Editor Memorials Helpline News Book Reviews Turret Instructional Building Type A and B revised Arbroath Airfield Plan RAF Ayr – Liberator Accident, 14 August 1941 An Afternoon Out (Metfield) Airfield Building Types, No.13 – Hutting, 1935–44 The Supply of Explosives and Ammunition to the RAF during the WWII, Part 2 Twenty Eight Thousand a Year , The Aircraft Storage Units, 1939-45

AR VOL 10 N O.3 – S E P 1989 (AR51) Editorial Helpline Airfield News Memorials Book Review Airfield Plan – Bramcote We Found a Fortress The Squadron, North Weald Filming of the ‘ ’ – Showplace for the Expansion Scheme

AR52 ( VOL 10 N O.4) – D EC 1989 Editorial Airfield News Memorials Helpline Book Reviews The German Military Cemetery in Nazareth, Israel Grimsby Airfield, 1989 Hardwick Remembered Airships at Lenabo The Supply of Explosives and Ammunition to the RAF, Part 3 Some notes on Ansty Airfield RNAS Westgate – Flying from Thanet’s First Aerodrome Hangars on the Bomber Bases Airfield Sites Where Safeguarding has been Relinquished

AR53 ( VOL 11 NO.1) – M AY 1990 Editorial Airfield News Book Reviews Helpline Short Notes Crossword Membership Questionnaire Results The Memorial at Tempsford North Killingholme Airfield, 1990 First Flight – Bungay / Flixton Postscript to ‘Britain’s Military Airfields 1939-45’ Limavady, Co Derry The Role of N. Ireland’s Airbases in WWII The Old Control Tower Surplus to Requirements – airfields that weren’t! Fairford – A Base for Bigger Aircraft Some Notes on the Allocation of Dispersals ‘Varsity’ Tour, 1989 A History of Two Aircraft Hangars at Brooklands, Weybridge RNAS Hangars

AR54 / 55 ( VOL 11 N O.2 / 3) – DEC 1990 Editorial Letters to the Editor Helpline Crossword Solution Memorials Book Reviews News and Current Status Miscellaneous News The 200 Yard Moving Target Range ‘Memphis Belle’, A Review RAF Binbrook Gunslingers Saunders-Roe’s Airfield at Chertsey Meads, 1942-44 Truss Roofs Cruden Bay, a spot overshadowed by other events The Fate of Wellington W5653 My Memories of Fairford Twinwood Farm – An Update Radar Stations, , 1940–50s Silent Sentinels of Lincolnshire Kallang Airport, Singapore The Wendling Mural Relics at Haddenham (Thame) Relics at Fowlmere Some Decoy Sites in Norfolk and Suffolk RAF Habbaniya Walsall Airport Notes RAF East Moor RAF Harwell EFTS to Industrial Park, Shellingford Airfields on the Other Side – Bases in Northern , Belgium and Holland Supplementary Material to that in ‘ Britain’s Military Airfields 1939-45’ by D J Smith

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AR56 ( VOL 11 N O.4) – A P R 1991 Editorial Letter to the Editor News and Status Other News Help Wanted Memorials Book Reviews Ghostly Experiences Military Cemetery, North Coates Village Books on Moving Target Ranges Airfields on the Other Side, Part 2 Post War Newtownards Airfield, Co. Down Kessingland (Suffolk) Where Grand Slams Used to Lie, RAF Woodhall Spa Meir Airport, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs Breighton Airfield RAF , Norfolk Lyneham, Birthplace of Long Range Air Transport Reidy’s Ramblings RAF Binbrook RAF Elmswell Chipping Warden, report on a visit to this station 20th July 1944

AR57 – AU G 1991 Editorial Errata News and Status Other News Letter to the Editor To All Members of the ARG Replica Control Tower Grimsby Aerodrome, Municipal Hangar Type ‘B’ An Anglian Tour, 1991 Sywell Aerodrome RAF Railway Systems Hawkinge (), 1919 Acaster Malbis Where has my airfield gone (Chipping Ongar) Nick Rambles Too Moody’s Down Farm, Hants – A Possible Airfield Aviation Research Abridge Aerodrome, 1932–37 Lost Base National Aircraft Factory No.3 – Aintree, Liverpool RAF Biggin Hill, 1919 South (Gatwick) Airport – Martello Air Station Terminal, 1936

AR58 – OC T 1991 Editorial Errata Memorials Letters to the Editor Book Reviews News and Status Helpline Ancient Landings Midland / Odessa Tower, Texas Control Tower at Fearn More on Shellingford Bottesford Aerodrome Wyton Plan Upper Heyford PlanResearching ALGs in Kent Thorpe Abbotts Museum Oldham-Hollinwood, etc (in WWI) Some further notes on RAF Hullavington Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway Manchester has a new T2

AR59 – A P R 1992 Editorial News and Status Other News Memorials Notes on… Letters to the Editor Book Reviews Membership Interests Co-ordination Additional Notes on German Airfields in France Air Publication 4488A – Aircraft Hangars Hoopers (West London aircraft manufacturers) Morgan & Co (Leighton Buzzard) RAF Station Wickenby The Story of an Airfield – Long Kesh The Caravan Hard Standing Swindon Airport Royal Air Force Stanbridge RAF Debden, 1947 RAF Atcham, 1947 Hucknall, Alexandra Park or Didsbury Airfield A Visit to Marseille-Kaserne Oldham Aircraft Factory Assembling Sheds at Oldham The troubled beginnings of RAF Woodhall Spa

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AR60 – AU G 1992 Editorial News and Status Memorials Letters to the Editor Book Reviews National Inventory of War Memorials Mosscraft Aircraft and Chorley A Guide to Northern Ireland Airfields, Part 1 Manchester Airport Developments Notes on Airfields in and about Newcastle Turnberry Aerodrome , 1946 to 1956, Part 1 RAF Tholthorpe Ballyhalbert, The story of a Base RAF Manchester (Didsbury) Ford Junction, 1919

AR61 – DEC 1992 Editorial News and Status More Memorials Letters to the Editor Help Required Books ARG Members Interest Co-ordination Pause for Thought (hangar preservation) Cammeringham (Ingham) Stapleford Tawney Derby (Burnaston) Longtown Airport – A History Hunt for a Beaufort Coolham Airfield Remembered Photographs from the Archives Memories of ADLS, 1944–46 Kinky ! Hanworth National Aircraft Factory No.1, Waddon A Seaplane Shed at Wimbledon Regional Circles of Airfield Research Group, South Manchester / North

AR62 – A P R 1993 Editorial News and Status Memorials Letters to the Editor Book Reviews North West Regional Group Proposed Amendments to the Constitution and Rules of the ARG Members’ Interests and ARG Regional Circles Wall art saved Aviation and Things in Yorkshire Castle Bromwich Surviving WWI Airfields in Essex Sutton’s Farm RAF Halton and its Wartime Activities Filton Between the Wars Yatesbury Military Airstrips in the from the 1920s to the present day The Austin Motor Co (1914) Ltd and Austin Motors Ltd, Longbridge Works

AR63 – AU G 1993 Editorial Erratum News and Status Book Reviews Letter to the Editor Help Line Perth Aerodrome A Brief History of RAF Downham Market RAF Wrexham, Borras Airfield Site A Brick Runway in Holland Membury Airfield Cowdray Park The Aircraft Manufacturing Company Ltd Canewdon – One Link in the Chain Two Airfields With the Same Name Stretton Royal Naval Air Station, Cheshire Extracts from the ORBs of RAF Lords Bridge, No.95 Maintenance Unit

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AR64 – D EC 1993 Editorial Letters to the Editor Helpline News and Status Memorials Book Reviews Regional Circles of Airfield Research Group A V Roe & Co Ltd The Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial Grahame White Aviation Co Register of Preserved Airfield Vehicles North Weald in the Forties and Fifties The Eagle May Have Landed , (Norfolk Dutch Barns) ’s ‘Whispering Giant’ visits Filton The Miles Aeronautical Technical School, 1943–49 WWI Yatesbury Leamington or Bishop’s Tachbrook Airfield Advanced Landing Grounds

AR65 – A P R 1994 Editorial News and Status Letters to the Editor Christmas Quiz Answers Book Reviews Helpline Message from the Chairman Message from the Secretary Mystery Photo North West Branch News Freshfield Aerodrome, Liverpool York Aerodrome Remembered Sundridge Airfield, Kent East Fortune, an airport for just four months A Happy Anniversary The Eastbourne Aviation Co. and Eastbourne Aerodromes Norton, Broadwell Airfield site Nutts Corner, Belfast Campbeltown Aviation in Wiltshire, a historical survey National Aircraft Factory No.2, Heaton Chapel, Stockport, Cheshire Visual and Pyrotechnic Signals at Aerodromes having Aerodrome Control Services provided by GCA

AR66 – AU G 1994 Editorial Helpline Help, Help, Help Letters to the Editor Book Reviews Video Review AGM News and Status Memorials Did You Know? Correspondents Required Mystery Photo – Answer Another Mystery Photo! Obituary – Donald D Clarke The Bethnal Green Tube Shelter Disaster The Brush Electrical Engineering Co Ltd Biggin Hill and its Layout A Brief History of Biggin Hill / Biggin Hill Airport Chalgrove The V-Force in the 1950s The RAF Airfield Construction Service The 850th Engineer Aviation Battalion, 1942–45 Stansted Meanderings, Memorials and Americans

Airfield Numbers, Names and Map References, D-Day / the Invasion on NW

AR67 – DEC 1994 Editorial 1995 AGM Letters to the Editor ARG Regional Group News Book Reviews News and Status Airfield Research Publishing Help Line Memorial Miscellany From the Membership Secretary Some Forgotten Private and Civil Aerodromes RAF Metheringham Visitor Centre Hooton Park Aerodrome History Airfield Numbers and Names continued The Cross-wind Screen RAF Bishopscourt – End of and Era! Hangar Welford Weston Airfield’s Days of Glory 50 Sqn Liberators 50th Anniversary Commemorations Carnaby Air Light Beacons Airfield Site Plans Ouston Plan

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AR68 – A P R 1995 Editorial Memorials Letters to the Editor Book Reviews Errata Helpline News and Current Status North West Branch Snippets GCI Station, Anstruther Replica Control Tower at Dayton, Ohio Newtownards Airfield ‘Pinetree’, Air Base RAF , 74 Years of Service The Immediate Pre War Civil Aerodromes, Part 1 What is left at Bodney? Two Fields in France – Cherbourg and Plumetot The Proposed Aerodrome at High Roding, Essex United States Army Air Force Station Numbers

AR69 – AU G 1995 Editorial AGM Report News and Current Status More Airfield News Memorials Letter to the Editor Book Reviews New Aviation Museum in Lincolnshire End of the RAF’s Rail Links Immediate Pre War Civil Aerodromes, Part 2 Upwood Down Memory Lane – Maylands and Hornchurch RAF Windrush Hillman’s Airways and the Maylands Aerodrome No.49 MU – RAF Colerne A Short History of RAF Flying Control, 1937–45 The Rotor Story Update – Army Air Force Station Numbers in AR.68

AR70 – DEC 1995 Editorial Memorials Book Reviews On the Video Shelf Letter to the Editor Help Line AGM Notice From the Membership Secretary News and Current Status Reports The Immediate Pre-War Civil Aerodromes, Part 3 East Anglian Tour May / June 1995 Simon Marks, The ATC and FIDO The Croydon Airport Story A Short History of RAF Flying Control, 1937–45, Part 2 Of Coaches and Cathedrals A Cotswold Airfield Revisited Windrush on a Golden Day – Radford No.1 Aircraft Acceptance Park 43 SLG Leanach Down Memory Lane – Andrewsfield Remembered An Amazing Escape Some Notes on the History of Runways in Britain, 1918–45

AR71 – A P R 1996 Editorial News and Current Status Memorials Letter to the Editor Book Reviews Helpline Disposals Updates Oulton – an untimely epitaph Airfield Research Group North West Branch Radar Stations / ROTOR Bunkers The Rotor Story, Part 2 Wanted – Airfield Plan Illustrator Airfields During the Second World War RAF Warmwell A Short History of RAF Flying Control, 1937–45, Part 3 Burtonwood Repair Depot Flying Clubs and Schools of the United Kingdom, 1966 RAF Great Sampford – A History Contracts Carried out for the by George Wimpey & Co Ltd

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AR72 – AU G 1996 News and Current Status AGM Editorial Wanted – Volunteer to do Research Copyright Book Reviews From the Membership Secretary Airfield Research Group Blazer Badge MOD Land Disposals Northern Tour, 1996 Flying Clubs and Schools of the United Kingdom, 1966 Farewell to Arms – and Airport History Pre War Civil Aerodromes, Part 4 Airfield Controller – MAP, 1945 Some Lesser Known Flying Fields in Surrey Airfield Defence – Scotland Airfield of the First and Last Raid (Grafton Underwood) Mystery Photo Continental Airfield Numbers and Names Civil Air Traffic Control, 1941–65 The Charles Close Society for the Study of Ordnance Survey Maps

AR SUPPLEMENT N O.1 – S UMMER 1996 Editorial The Organisation of the Royal Air Force, 1966 Where Have All The Active Airfields Gone?

AR73 – DEC 1996 Editorial News and Current Status Other News Memorials Book Reviews Help ARG North West Branch Meetings Ashbourne and Darley Moor, June 1996 The Mistley Bunker, Essex – History and Description Radio Navigation Aids, 1940–45 Stow (Maries) – A Step Back into the Past Victims of the Thaw RAF Manby and RAF Strubby, Lincolnshire – A brief history Mystery Photo in last issue Some forgotten private and civil aerodromes from 1955 and flying clubs and schools of the UK 1966

AR74 – M AR 1997 Editorial 1997 AGM Helpline Airfield News and Current Status Memorials Copy for Next Issue Management Committee and Ed Team Announcement Book Reviews Mrs Barbara Nicholls The RAF Fauld Disaster – Britain’s Biggest Explosion Ford Aerodrome Museums and Collections of Norfolk and Suffolk Preservation of Buildings Roundel Research Croydon Control, 1935–39 RAF (now Robertson Barracks) The Airfield Focus Series of Booklets Excitement at Sywell Gatwick’s Beehive Edinburgh – Turnhouse Items from the Cody Sale Flying Control at Mersa Matruh, Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum Victims of the Cold War Thaw – Bedford (Thurleigh) Special Sites (Norfolk / Suffolk Q –sites etc) Goxhill’s Battle Headquarters

AR SUPPLEMENT N O.2 – S PRING 1997 Editorial 1997 AGM Notice Military Airstrips in the UK From the 1920s to the Present Day Where Has All The Money Gone? The Airfields of Northern Ireland During the Second World War, Part 1

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AR75 – J U N 1997 Editorial Minutes of the AGM On Reflection Airfield News and Current Status AR – Future Projects Memorials Sundry Items Taken From Fighter Command ORBs A Brief History of RAF Oulton Airfields of North East Lincolnshire – A Brief History Ford – Yapton The Bentley Priory Airstrip Wolverhampton Going… Going… Gone! Thetford, Norfolk (Snarehill) The British Roundel Hawarden Aerodrome – Brief Notes Early Gatwick Model at Chicago Exhibition RNAS Burscough The Development of the Aircraft Factory and Associated Building Types

AR76 – S E P 1997 Volunteers Required Stop Press Editorial From the Management Committee Memorials Letters Airfield News and Current Status Book Reviews On Reflection Further Notes on the Ford Aerodrome History RAF Oulton History RAF Maintenance Units Poynton, Cheshire Museum Piece – The Shoreham Aircraft Museum and Monkmoor From Aircraft to Automobiles , a History of Usworth Airfield RAF Station Lichfield Flying Boat Operations During WWII at , Hythe and Poole Harbour

AR77 – DEC 1997 Editorial Regional Activities 1998 AGM From the Management Committee Letters Memorials News and Current Status Book Reviews Small Ads Snippets from Air News, 1951 On Reflection Puzzle Picture Off-Airfield Facilities East Fortune Airfield Update on Croydon Airport Site Britain's Oldest Aerodrome Photography – What is the best film to use? UK Beach Strips Using Modern Technology to Record Building Details Around Sheffield Demolition at Manchester Flying Control Developments at Lichfield Memorial to Roy Chadwick West Malling Airfield Observations at Random Lincolnshire Airfields Ballyhalbert (Sector Operations Room) Wig Bay Flying Boat Base The Problem of Building Motorways Seighford Airfields of Northern Ireland During the Second World War Hamble

AR78 – A P R 1998 Editorial Book Reviews Letters to the Editor Round Up – news, developments, status and memorial info On Reflection National Aviation Heritage Week Obituary – Len Cullen Royal Air Force High Ercall Grangemouth The History of RAF Lakenheath Lamella and ‘L’ Type Hangars Tilstock Aerodrome Designated Emergency Aerodromes, 1956 Museum Piece – The Foynes Flying Boat Museum, Limerick United States Army Aero Squadrons in the United Kingdom in the First World War

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AR79 – J U L 1998 Editorial Group Activities Regional Meetings Round Up An Appeal for Help Letters to the Editor Book Reviews On Reflection Mystery Photo Cleared For Take-Off Exhibition Bellman and T2 Hangars A History of RAF Turnhouse and What is That? The History of Wymeswold and Castle Donington Airfields

AR80 – OC T 1998 Editorial Letters to the Editor Book Reviews Round Up Regional Meeting On Reflection Important Notice – Membership Subscriptions Royal Air Force Binbrook – An Examination Airfields That Never Were RNAS Hornsea Mere ‘D’ and ‘E’ type Sheds Post War RAF Letters to the Editor Framlingham (Parham) Aerodrome – Today The Airfields of Northern Ireland during the Second World War, Part 3

AR81 – D EC 1998 Editorial Notice of AGM Group Activities Round Up Book Reviews Letters to the Editor On Reflection Type ‘A’ Aeroplane Sheds Orfordness LMS Barassie, Troon – Spitfire Repair Facility, 1940–44 Yatesbury Airfield A History of Burn, East Riding, Yorkshire Watton Foynes Flying Boat Base and Shannon Airport RAF Llandow RAF and its effect on UK RAF Stations Early Days of Flying Services at Blackpool Watch Offices for Fighter Satellite Aerodromes – Ludham Public Viewing Areas at Military Airfields

AR82 – A P R 1999 Editorial Round Up On Reflection Letters to the Editor Book Reviews Wymeswold and Castle Donnington History Driffield Examined Back Issues of Airfield Review, First Ten Years Trafford Park Aerodrome Type ‘C’ Aeroplane Sheds Airfield Review Index Aspects of Bomber Command’s WWII Emergency Runways – Woodbridge, and Canterbury

AR83 – J UL 1999 Editorial Erratum Book Reviews Letters to the Editor Help Round Up AGM – Elvington Obituary – Ian Penneck ARG Cards G-DASH RAF Booker Memorial Airfields in the South and Stormy Down The History of RAF Feltwell and RAF Methwold Ayrshire Airfields No.52 Maintenance Unit RAF Cardiff (Pengham Moors) Back in the ‘60s Salisbury Hall and Mosquito Aircraft Museum RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire Cold War Survey Project Airfield Plans, RAF Museum, Hendon Underground Hangars and Factories The Lacey Green Story, Bucks Corporation Engineering Base – Heathrow Expansion Period Aerodrome Construction – Watch Office with Met Section

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AR84 – OC T 1999 Editorial Book Reviews Letters to the Editor Research Column Round Up Brief Status Updates On Reflection Stornoway Airfield Rougham Fly-In Eastern Region Airfield Research Group Mystery Airfield – Acklam A History of RAF Macmerry Feltwell Photo pages UK Civil Airfields Plan of Annexes for ‘C’ hangars Long Newnton, Gloucestershire Fighter Sector Stations, 1940 Cambridge (Teversham) Airport and Marshalls Flying School Ltd. Notes on ‘J’ and ‘K’ Type Hangars with associated Control Towers

AR85 – D EC 1999 Editorial Help Round Up On Reflection Letters to the Editor Book Reviews Research Column AGM and election of Officers, year 2000/01 Weaving the Tapestry (NMR Conference report) Canterbury Tales – Carnaby Too Further Notes on ‘J’ and ‘K’ Hangars in AR84 ARG Trip to RAF Alconbury Help Wanted – Dale Aerodrome, South Wales What is left at Bradwell Bay? Military Airstrips in the UK from 1920s to present day Scottish Snippets Catfoss Remembered – A Condensed History Hooton Park A History of RAF Macmerry – Photographs for AR84 Aerodrome Route Beacons Extracts of a report to National Aviation Heritage Committee Airfield Review Index

AR86 – A P R 2000 RAF Museum Hendon Notice Editorial Round Up Letters to the Editor Book Reviews Video Review Lend-Lease Terminal Airfields, Part 1 Bristol , 1954–70 The ‘Airfield Destruction (Sub) Branch’ RAF, 1949–51 Recent ARG Attended Events The short, but unusual, career of RAF Fersfield Lee-on-Solent Seventy Up ! The History of Barton Aerodrome, Manchester

AR87 – J U L 2000 Editorial Group Notices Enquiries Round Up Letters to the Editor Research Column Minutes of AGM Prefabricated Bituminous Surfacing for Aircraft Runways Leeming Aerodrome The History of Langley Aircraft Factory and Airfield Lend-Lease Terminal Airfields, Part 2 RAF Fairwood Common – The Wyton Octagon RNAS Burscough, HMS Ringtail – An Update Signposts for Pilots

AR88 – OC T 2000 Editorial Letters to the Editor Book Reviews Management Committee Review Meeting Round Up Regional Events Hangars, Hotel and Dock for Ships Scheme Sealand Aerodrome Standard and VHF Beam Approach Systems The Forgotten Airship Base RFC , East Yorkshire Airport Terminals The Dengie Ranges and Bradwell-juxta-Mare Landing Ground Two Cornish Airfields News from the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum, Flixton More on Runways Info – What is the British Aviation Preservation Council Donibristle The History of Manchester (Ringway) Airport’s Southside Hangars

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AR89 – D EC 2000 Editorial Round Up Book Reviews Help AGM Letters to the Editor Obituary – Brian R Robinson Members Information Service Lease-Lend Destination Airfields – Flying Boats Flying Boat Bases – Supplement Elvington – Did You Know? Warwick Aerodrome and NGR References Lamella Hangars What is it?

AR90 – A P R 2001 Editorial Round Up Letters to the Editor Book Reviews ARG Visit to Upper Heyford What made Langar Linger Longer? Sealand A History of Elstree Aerodrome St Athan to Llandow ASU Dispersals Old Sarum RAF Valley Greenham Common Revisited The Rebuilding of Communal Site 3 at Hardwick Airfield Pyrotechnics Airfield of Dreams (Death of an Airfield) – Hanley Air Strip Puzzle Corner

AR91 – J UL 2001 Editorial Round Up Book Reviews Letters to the Editor ARGINFO an additional Membership Service Rochester More on Sealand No.27 SLG Lennexlove Satellite Landing Grounds, Part 1 Satellite Landing Grounds Directory Aerial photographs of SLGs Scotland From the Air, 1939–49 RAF Newton closes for flying 10th November 2000 Control Towers – Rattlesden Aerodrome Reference Points Airfield Review Principal Subject Index Flying Boat Airfields – Airfield Review Extra, December 2000

AR92 – OC T 2001 Editorial Round Up Book Reviews Airfield Research Group Handbook Two Towers RAF West Raynham Letters to the Editor Satellite Landing Grounds, Part 2 Satellite Landing Grounds, Directory Why some of those ‘Airfields that Never Were’, never were! Burtonwood Memories Airfield Defences Reminiscences Prestwick International Airport – Latest Developments Air Station for Wigan Some Random Thoughts on Airfield Building Development

AR93 – D EC 2001 Editorial Round Up Help Required Letters to the Editor Book Reviews and the National Railway Museum Rougham 2001 Factfiles for reference and as a database Two Towers Two more Towers! Farnborough Air Sciences Trust Association Brough Heritage

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AR94 – A P R 2002 Editorial AGM 2002 Letters to the Editor Round Up Help Required Management Committee Announcement Sherburn-in-Elmet – First World War Site Upper Heyford History The Lanark Flying Meeting, 1910 Where was I, Where am I, Where will I be? Control Towers Satellite Landing Grounds, Part 3 Ronaldsway – Isle of Man ‘Queen Mary’ Transport Please Take Care! Book Reviews

AR95 – J UL 2002 Editorial Round Up Letters to the Editor Book Reviews Important Management Committee Announcement Aerodrome Reference Points – Another View! RFC Harling Road, Norfolk The Central Link Training School – Brief History Satellite Landing Grounds, Part 4 The Airfield Control Caravan Farnborough Report, 2002 The Archaeology of World War II – in Context Tangmere, 1941 – Number One to Land Expansion Period Watch Offices, etc Airfield Definitions Bases, 1939 to date, Part 1 Future Preservation and Conservation of 20th Century Military Landscapes

AR96 – OC T 2002 Editorial Erratum Round Up Letters to the Editor Book Reviews Management Committee Announcement for 2003 Yeovilton Fleet Air Arm Bases, 1939 to date, Part 2 From Queen Mary to Twinwood Farm Aerodrome Reference Points Oblique Photographs of Airfields

AR97 – JAN 2003 Editorial Errata Book Reviews Letters to the Editor Important Notice to Contributors Fleet Air Arm Bases, 1939 to date, Part 3 Pilotless Aircraft – Llanbedr Aerodrome Locations and References Kinky Runways Airfield Camouflage Schemes

AR98 – A P R 2003 Editorial ARG Info Round Up Book Review Certificate of Appreciation – West 4 Printers Management Committee Announcement Aviation Web Sites Directory of Installation Site Plans Airfield Research Group Speakers Fire at Felthorpe, Norfolk National Recognition for Historic Aviation Landmark Fleet Air Arm Bases, 1939 to date, Part 4

AR99 – J UL 2003 Editorial Letters to the Editor Book Reviews Round Up Certificate of Appreciation – Eric Chamberlain RAF Misson Manchester Airport’s Draft Development Strategy to 2015 Kemble – Gloucestershire or Wiltshire? Two Towers _Shepherds Grove and Bovingdon (photos) Shenfield (Hutton) Landing Ground Blackpool Beach – Airstrip Second World War Motorway Runways Airfield Research Group Committee, 1976 to 2003 Minutes of AGM held on 18th May 2003 Fleet Air Arm Bases, 1939 to date, Part 5, Notes amendments, additional info etc. National Aircraft Factories – Notes from the Official History of the Ministry of Munitions

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AR100 – OC T 2003 Editorial Information, etc. Book Reviews Letters to the Editor Airfield Information Round Up Latest Publications Important Notice – Renewal Subscriptions 2004 Dunsfold RAF Flying Boat Bases UK Motorway Runways Airfield Camouflage Pipe Mines – Sometimes known as Canadian Pipe Mines Airfield Review and ARGINFO RAF Museum Hendon – Revised telephone number OTU Airfield Series Fleet Air Arm Bases, 1939 to date, Part 6, Amendments Hurn Airport Logs

AR101 – DEC 2003 Editorial Round Up Book Reviews Letters to the Editor and Feedback Important Notice – Renewal Subscriptions 2004 Notice to ARG Sleuths Photographs of UK Control Towers Dedication of New Memorial Stone at Ringway Obituary – John Bagley Bomber Command Base Organisation, 1943–45 Southampton (Eastleigh) Airport Fleet Air Arm Bases, 1939 to date, Part 7, Notes amendments, additional info etc.

AR102 – A P R 2004 Editorial Page Three Photograph Round Up Letters to the Editor Feedback Book Reviews List of Seaplane Stations and Alighting Areas Aerodrome National Aircraft Factory 3 – Aintree, Liverpool Fleet Air Arm Bases, 1939 to date, Part 8 Burtonwood an Airport for the North West Attacks on UK Airfields Aerodrome Landing Ground Camouflage, 1939–43 Second World War RAF Decoy Airfields OTU Airfields in the UK, 1939–45, Part 1 Belfast Truss Hangars – The Survivors The ‘Abbotsinch’ Hangar News From the Public Record Office Directorate of Camouflage – First Report of the Aerodrome Research Committee

AR103 – J U L 2004 Editorial Letters and Feedback Book Reviews Round Up Page Three Photograph Visit to RAF Coltishall the Civil Connection Prestwick Airport Fleet Air Arm Bases, 1939 to date, Part 9 Fleetlands Mains and Mainhill Hangars The Ipswich Boulton and Paul Hangar – Flixton Comet Test Flight Hangar Hatfield Information Required – Conical RAF Line Servicing Huts London (Croydon) Airport Approach Map Belfast Truss Hangars – Feedback April 2004 The North Coates Hangar

AR104 – OC T 2004 Editorial Letters and Feedback Round Up Chairman’s Notes Page Three Photograph Book Reviews A Few Words from the New Hon Treasurer ARG Archive Tilstock, Whitchurch Heath – AIR 2/16939 Elmsett Airfield, Suffolk – A Brief History The DARA Hangars at St Athan, South Glamorgan Esavian Doors Hangars Technical Notes Air Ministry Type ‘G’ Hangar North Coates – An Operational and Architectural History 2004 Defence Review Type ‘C’ Hangar and Watch Offices with Towers Hamble – an Historic Site Hangar Study Group Tangmere Review of Statutory Listing and Aviation Associated Structures Fleet Air Arm Bases, 1939 to date, Part 10 – Notes, amendments, etc More Notes on Operational Training Units and their Airfields, Part 2

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AR105 – DEC 2004 Editorial Round Up Page Three Photograph Book Reviews Letters and Feedback ARG Interim Report Obituary – Chris Ashworth London Airport More on OTU Organisation, (Part 3) Volunteer Reserve Hangars in the 1930s Air Message Service Boxes Project Emily – Thor IRBM RAF Airfields English Heritage and Blue Plaques The Fields of Hendon A Tower of Strength (Mildenhall) Standard and VHF Beam Approach Systems Belfast Truss Hangars – Hooton Park, Cheshire Duxford Hangar Structures Airfield Research Group Management Committee Some Recent ARGINFO Matters London Airport Review of Statutory Listing and Aviation Associated Structures – Feedback Nov 2004

AR106 – A P R 2006 Editorial Copyright Round Up Book Reviews Feedback Nostalgia Profile – Peter Howarth Page Three Photograph Wanted – Editor for Airfield Review Obituary – Charles Scandrett Operational Training Units, Part 4 (a few notes) Bodmin Airfield Nostalgia – RAF Wyton 1962 Cranfield Night Fighter OTU Paul de Lesseps and the Burton-on-Trent Flying Meeting St Mawgan Super Hangar Report on Visits to Airfields in the Colchester Area DARA Project Red Dragon, St Athan Heavy Maintenance Hangar, Cardiff Wales Airport An Overview of the Planning and Reconstruction of RAF Greenham Common

AR107 – JU L 2005 Editorial Questions Accounts 2004 Feedback (July 2005) Round Up Book Reviews Minutes of 2005 AGM Airfield Review – how it reaches you! Horsham St Faith Transportation Sheds – The Last Link is Gone Bramcote Lamella Hangar Update Port Meadow Aerodrome, Southampton (Eastleigh) Airport Sherburn-in-Elmet – The Civil Years Ministry of Aircraft Production (MAP) Type ‘R’ Hangars Brooklands Aerodrome Definitions – as applied to Explosives Areas Pictorial History of Watch Offices / Control Towers at RAF Odiham Seething Control Tower – From 1945 to Dereliction and Restoration as a Museum

AR108 – OC T 2005 Announcement Editorial Round Up Book Review Secretary’s Notes Obituary – Barry Hugh Abraham 200-yard Moving Target Ranges Felixstowe Air Station – Brief History Portreath Airport (Clyst ), 1936–97 RAF Chelveston The Development of Contact Lighting in the Second World War

AR109 – DEC 2005 Editorial Round Up Book Reviews WWII Heavy Bomber Arrester Gear Brooklands Photo Album Vickers Armstrong Ltd – Chester and Byley A Return to Snow Blowers RAF Wireless Transmitter Stations of World War Two Ground Control Approach – Aeronautica on the English Riviera, June 2005 A Search for Buried Treasure Chocks Away! David Lammy Secures a Future for the Sites that Protected Our Past

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AR110 – A P R 2006 Secretary’s Announcement AGM Feedback Round Up Book review Memorial Update Brooklands Aerodrome – The Years 1939 to 2006 Book and Publication Information West Raynham – A final (and very personal) reflection From the Archives

AR111 – J U L 2006 Editorial Letters to the Editor Round Up Follow Up From The Archives Book Reviews and Information Help Needed Minutes of AGM held at Cranfield University The Royal Air Force Maintenance Organisation A Tour of RAF Northolt Duxford – The Early Days A History of Romney Marsh Sound Mirrors Index of Building Plans held in the RAF Museum

AR112 – OC T 2006 Update on ARG Archives Editorial Help Required A Few Words from the Vice Chairman Round Up Letters to the Editor Book Reviews and Information Turning Back to AR111 Calshot – A Brief History and Buildings Hanworth, London Air Park – Follow Up Airfield Memorials Update and Additional Information Stenigot Radar Station Report on a trip to the Isle of Man and Ulster Visit to RAF Wittering, September 2006 On the Soapbox – Help Brooklands Please Location, Location, Location

AR113 – DEC 2006 Editorial Secretarial Comment Round Up Letter to the Editor Requests for Help Book Reviews and Information Death of an Airfield – RAF Coltishall Locations, Locations, Locations Visit to RAF Ouston Longbridge Shadow Factory, Visit to Longbridge Preparation for War When and Where was the First Hard Runway Built in the UK? (Rochester and Bedford) Ltd, Rochester Seaplane Works, Airport Works Short Harland Ltd, Queen’s Island, Belfast Northern Ireland Chronology Shorts Bros (Rochester and Bedford) Ltd, SEBRO Madingley Road, Cambridge

AR114 – M AR 2007 Editorial and Secretarial Comments Round Up Notification of AGM From the Archives – Glatton – A Fen Airfield Locations, Locations, Locations ARG Memorial Group Plan B’ was BABS . The Introduction of Beam Approach Landing Systems into the RAF Location of First World War Landing Grounds – A Geographer’s Perspective Defending the Peace – Fighter Command Airfield Development, 1946–60, Part 1

AR115 – J U N 2007 Secretary’s Piece Round Up Information Needed Minutes of the 2006 AGM Additions to Defending the Peace , Part 1 Locations, Locations, Locations Some of the Records Available from the ARG Archives Gatwick Hangar Radlett Airfield History and Handley Page Drawings Barrage Balloon Depots – a Provisional Survey Hawarden Aerodrome Pathways to Old Airfields – A Survey in Southern East Anglia

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AR116 – S E P 2007 Editorial and Secretary’s Piece Round Up Follow-up Book Reviews and Information Comments, Information and Help Required Thornaby Update on List of Balloon Sites 2007 St Athan Photo Album Thetford / Snarehill (Norfolk) Notes on the History of the Pulham Air Station Locations, Locations, Locations Airfields on the Islands of Orkney and Shetland The Stately Homes of the Royal Air Force Defending the Peace – Fighter Command Airfield Development, 1946–60, Part 2

AR117 – D EC 2007 Editorial and Secretary’s Piece Book Reviews and Information Round Up Ex RAF Airfield, Cambridgeshire Hangar 89 (Britannia Hangar) Brize Norton Base Hangar Locations, Locations, Locations Find at Pembrey Airfield Alframe / Alframa Hangars Pawlett Defending the Peace – Fighter Command Airfield Development, 1946–60, Part 3 Royal Air Force Station Wigsley, Nottinghamshire – A Most Unusual Control Tower

AR118 – M AR 2008 Secretary’s Notes AGM Round Up Follow Up Book Reviews Find at Pembrey Airfield Marham Photo Page RAF Harrowbeer Abingdon Oxfordshire – Type ‘F’ Hangar Dunsfold Defending the Peace – Fighter Command Airfield Development, 1946–60, Part 4

AR119 – J U N 2008 Secretary’s Notes Editorial Round Up Memorials Book Reviews Help Required Minutes of AGM held on Sunday 11th May 2008 Museum and History Room Heston History The Castle Bromwich Aircraft Factories Woodason’s Models, Heston Manchester Airport celebrates 70 years Photos From Archives

AR120 – S E P 2008 Editorial Secretary’s Notes Round Up Help Required Book Reviews Middle East Control Towers Airfield Information Exchange A Visit to RAF Digby Manchester Airport Facts Gatwick Hangar History Defending the Peace – Fighter Command Airfield Development, 1946–60, Part 5

AR121 – DEC 2008 Editorial Secretary’s Piece Round Up Book Reviews RAF Rhoose / Cardiff International Airport Correction to Airfield Review 118 A new, Partnership with the Airfield Information Exchange RAF Cardiff / Pengham Moors Defending the Peace – Fighter Command Airfield Development, 1946–60, Part 6

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AR122 – M AR 2009 Editorial Secretary’s Piece Copyright Round Up and Information UK Aerial Photography – An Internet Resource RAF Honington, Part 1 Defending the Peace – Fighter Command Airfield Development, 1946–60, Part 7

AR123 – J U N 2009 Secretary’s Piece Editorial Minutes of AGM Round Up and Information What’s hot on AiX Aerial Photos (Bentwaters, Halesworth, Woodbridge) The National Aerospace Library English Heritage Acts to Save Cold War Legacy at Risk Can you name these airfields? RAF Honington, Part 2 – transfer to the USAAF Fairford – A big base for big aircraft, 1944–90 The Supply of Explosives and Ammunition to the RAF during WWII, Part 1

AR124 – S E P 2009 Secretary’s Piece Editorial Feedback Round Up and Information Help Required Book Reviews Letters to the Editor Dowding Memorial – Moffat The Airfields of Elsham Wolds The Supply of Explosives and Ammunition to the RAF during WWII, Part 2 Vickers Armstrong Ltd. (Aviation Dept / Subsidiaries), Part 1 – Weybridge, Surrey

AR125 – DEC 2009 Editorial Page Three Photos From the Secretary Round Up and Information The Digital Archive Book Reviews Memorial Dedication at Upper Tean, Internet Mapping Airfield Shell Roof Hangars GCA – Elsham Wolds Very Heavy Bomber Stations RAF Halton Photos British WWII Airfields – Post War Clearance of Explosives Elvington Aerials Nostalgia – Duxford, 1972 Books about airfields Sywell Aerodrome – The story of they built the first concrete runway for 50 years The Supply of Explosives and Ammunition to the RAF during the WWII, Part 3

REGULARS , E.G. REPORTS / ROUND UP / BOOK REVIEWS ETC ARE NOT SHOWN IN THIS CONTENTS LIST FROM AR126

AR126 – M AR 2010 A Couple of AiX/ARG Ltd Archive Projects A Call to Arms Caxton Gibbet and Denton EFTS Relief Landing Grounds Coolham ALG – Site Plan Dawn to Dusk, Part 1, 21 July 2001 Heathrow Hangars, Pts.1 and 2 Development of Yeadon Aerodrome, the War Years Malta Airfields, Part 1 (Photos) The Biggin Hill Belt The Stoke Albany Memorial Memorial and Crash Sites on Hatfield Moor Getting Avro Lincolns into T2 Hangars Vickers-Armstrong Ltd (Aviation Depts/Subsidiaries), Part 2 The History of the Advanced Landing Grounds of WWII, Part 1 The Fox, the Hounds and the Lone Rider (Bruntingthorpe c.1961) Hendon – Historic Watchtower to be Moved and Renovated

COLOUR COVERS BEGAN WITH AR127

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AR127 – J U N 2010 RAFA Memorial at the National Arboretum New Views into Old Airfields, Part 1 Lincolnshire Airfield Tour A Brief History of RAF Ludford Magna Malta Airfields, Part 2 The National Mapping Programme Stupino Airfield, USSR Rawmarsh, Yorks Memorial Rededication RAF Blakelaw – 13 Group Fighter Command Bunker Acklington Memorial Dedication Yanks Return to Rougham, 2002 Stow Maries and Caxton Gibbet Updates Teesside Airport Notes RAF Ouston, 1963 (RSP) RAF Tollerton / MAP, 1950 (RSP) RAF Wittering, Britain's Longest Runway Spitalgate Photos Digital Archive Update The History of the Advanced Landing Grounds of WWII, Part 2 Heathrow Hangars, Part (Tristar Hangar), and update to Part 2

AR128 – S E P 2010 From the Archive – (Tower Photos) Dawn to Dusk, Part 2 Thurleigh Press Release A Post Card from Devon New Views into Old Airfields, Part 2 Staunton Lancaster Crash Memorial Aviation Heritage Lincolnshire The Brabazon Hangar At Filton WWI Relic at Leigh-on-Solent Heathrow Hangars. Part 1 – Update RAF North Weald, 1948, showing Airfield Defences, (RSP) Wainfleet Air Weapons Range, Part 1 Boulton-Paul Defiant, Serial N1671 Memorials – Memorable Airports The Rongstad Crew Memorial, Redlingfield Suffolk The History of the Advanced Landing Grounds of WWII, Part 3

AR129 – D EC 2010 Sutton Bridge Airfield RAF – From the Archives New Views into Old Airfields, Part 3 Kent – the Cradle of Aviation Strategic Defence and Security Review WWII American Bomber Airfield – Te Pirita (NZ) Wainfleet Air Weapons Range, Part 2 Wellingore RAF, 1945 – Showing Airfield Defences (RSP) Kirton in Lindsey RAF Northolt Update – Buildings Listed RAF Perton Airfield The History of the Advanced Landing Grounds of WWII, Part 4

Heathrow Hangars, Parts 4 / 5 – BOAC Wing Hangar and HQ Hangar England’s Newest National Nature Reserve Cleared for Takeoff RAF, 1952 – Showing Airfield Defences (RSP)

AR130 – M AR 2011 New Views into Old Airfields, Part 4 RAF Chilbolton Appledram – an Airfield by Chichester Harbour My Time at Defford Defford Blind Landing Lullingstone Decoy, Kent North Weald Gate Guards and Plaques Linton-on-Ouse Visit Silverstone Bomber Operational Training Unit Airfield Old Adverts The History of the Advanced Landing Grounds of WWII, Part 5

AR131 – J U N 2011 Abingdon Photo Page Visit to Clifden Heathrow Hangars, Part 6 – BOAC 747 Hangars/Shed 22 and the Great War The Destruction of RAF Newton Nuneaton Control Tower (Photos) A Visit to Short Bros Tunnels At Rochester Throwley Airfield, Kent, 1917–19, Part 1 Memorials At RAF Waddington Wath Head (SLG) The History of the Advanced Landing Grounds of WWII, Part 6

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AR132 – S E P 2011 Braunstone – A Municipal Airport for Leicester Firbeck Airfield Heathrow Hangars, Part 7 – The Other Hangars Pickett/Hamilton Recovery Hunsdon Airfield – How it got its Memorial Throwley Airfield Kent, 1917–19, Part 2 The History of the Advanced Landing Grounds of WWII, Part 7 Abbotts Bromley

AR133 – D EC 2011 Brockhouse and Eagle Towed Bowsers Hangar At Oakley Airfield (Photos) Lasham Bomb Stores – RAF (Photos) Aviation Connections at Maidstone Maralinga Airfield, South Australia Monkton Landing Ground Plaques Program – BoB Historical Society Tholthorpe Airfield Update Worthy Down Airfield The History of the Advanced Landing Grounds of WWII, Part 8

AR134 – M AR 2012 Ashbourne and Darley Moor, Parts 1 and 2 Bircham Newton BHQ Haddenham Airfield – the First 75 Years RAF Saltby– Footprints Watch Office with Tower FW190s at West Malling The History of the Advanced Landing Grounds of WWII, Part 9 AiX/ARG Ltd Archive, Part 1

AR135 – J U N 2012 Air Traffic Control Centres, 1962 to 2010, Part 1 Gosport ARG Visit, 09 June 2012 Ashbourne and Darley Moor, Parts 3 and 4 Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar Haldon Aerodrome Horsham St Faith – photographs X2 A New Memorial – Spilsby ARG Out and About The History of the Advanced Landing Grounds of WWII, Part 10

AR136 – SE P 2012 Alconbury Airfield – various articles AiX/ARG Ltd Archive, Part 2

AR137 – DEC 2012 Advanced Landing Grounds of WWII – Swingfield A Hundred Years of AEC Ashbourne and Darley Moor, Parts 5 and 6 Doodlebugs Over Kent Airport History Leicester East (Stoughton) – RAF Post-War FIDO At RAF Marham RAF Fuzing Point Shed Attleborough Fields, Nuneaton – a Forgotten Airfield West Malling – Pre War

AR138 – M AR 2013 Ashley Walk Bombing Range Killinghome RNAS Meir (Stoke-on-Trent) RAF Ashbourne and Darley Moor, Part 7 (Conclusion), 1954 to Present

AR139 – J U N 2013 Al Mahatta Air Museum (RAF Sharjah), Sharjah, UAE Six Airfields, Part 1 Memorial Dedication to 'The 19 of the 95th' , Alconbury Stow Maries Airfield Visit, 23 April 2013 Memorial Dedication 'Lancaster W4270' Staunton-In-the-Vale Woodford Battle Headquarters Elstree Aerodrome – A History of ATC – A Tale of Four Towers Woodhall Spa – the Smallest March-past Radar Archaeology at Great Bromley, Essex

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AR140 – S E P 2013 Air Traffic Control Centres, 1962 to 2010, Part 2 Six Berkshire Airfields, Part 2 Blue Streak Underground Launchers Farnborough Airfield Visit, 06 June 2013 Paull Airfield, Humberside RAF West Hartlepool Wigsley Tower – photographs x2

AR141 – DEC 2013 Geocaching – the Hunt for our Heritage New Haggerston – England's Northernmost Airfield Witney The Design and Construction of RAF Thorney Island, 1936–45

AR142 – M AR 2014 Airfield Call Signs Airfield Definitions and Numbers – Somerton and Northwood Dunstable, London Gliding Club and Hangar The First RFC End-Opening Flight and ARS Sheds Rochester Titchwell Bombing and Firing Range, Norfolk Roston, Derbyshire

AR143 – J U N 2014 1426 (Enemy Aircraft) Flight Abbotsinch Airport, Glasgow The Underwater Range at Alwen Reservoir Dumped! (Part 1) Roston, Supplement The Planning of Training Depot Stations

AR144 – S E P 2014 Abbotsinch Airport – Glasgow Supplement Dumped! Part 2 Fliegerhorst Venlo Handley Page Storage Sheds Wartime Air Force Reserve Depots and the C2 Storage Tank West Malling Control Tower Restoration

AR145 – DEC 2014 Airfields and Railways – An Industrial Archaeology Detling, 13 August 1940 Twinwood Farm

AR146 – M AR 2015 Control Towers – Sentinels of the Past Queen Gull Target Boats in RAF Service West Raynham Memorial Campaign Fuel Distribution Depots – Wartime AirForce and the D1 Storage Tank

AR147 – J U N 2015 RAF Panshanger – History and Context Polegate Naval Air Station Scampton Heritage Centre Simulated Bombing Using Infrared Targets

AR148 – SEP 2015 Biggin Hill Heritage Centre – News Halton – A Century of Flight The Depiction of Airfields on OS Popular Maps Simulated Bombing West Malling – The 'X' Files Wheels on the Ground – Military Airfields

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AR149 – DEC 2015 Beck Row / Mildenhall – RAF, Planning and Design, Part 1 Guy Penrose Gibson Netherthorpe Airfield – Small but Perfectly Formed Simulated Bombing – the Camera Obscura Sound Mirrors Construction of the Wartime Government Petrol Pipeline System

AR150 – M AR 2016 423rd Civil Engineering Squadron, Fire Department Ford Aerodrome – Up the Junction Simulated Bombing – the Flight Track Recorder RAF Vaagar, Faroe Islands Sound Mirrors – Fan Bay and Littlestone, Kent RAF Beck Row / Mildenhall – Base Development, 1930–70, Part 2

AR151 – J U N 2016 Air Firing Ranges, Inland Alconbury – ILS Calibration Studs RAF – A Historical Overview Cranfield Water Ponds Desborough, RAF Faroes Air Transport Today

THE MAGAZINE NOW BECAME FULL COLOUR

AR152 – S E P 2016 Airfield Definitions and Numbers Bruntingthorpe, Part.1 The Art of Camouflage Cowes, Somerton and Northwood Northern and Western Motorway PLUTO – The Kent Connection The Trappers Are Coming – Air Traffic Control Thorpe Abbots – Century Return Buildings of the Cold War – Wimpey Hangar

AR153 – D EC 2016 Ashburton Airfield, New Zealand , Gatow and Templehof Airfields Braunstone Aerodrome Brockworth Factory and AW Hawksley Bruntingthorpe, Part.2 Bruntingthorpe, Wimpey Hangar Department of Fortification and Works RAF Horsham St Faith Liverpool Airport, Runway Development Stanley Park, Blackpool

AR154 – M AR 2017 Air Dropped Torpedoes, Part 1 Airfield Websites Battle of Britain Merlin at Hawkinge Bruntingthorpe, Part 3 Cold War Buildings, the Guard Tower, 366/54 Bryce Canyon Airport Listed Art Deco Buildings at Liverpool Airport Flight Magazine – A Resource, Part 1 Luton’s First Airfield RAF North Pickenham Shoreham / Brighton Airport History The Crazies Hill Memorial Touches of England in Virginia Beach Uni-Seco Structures Limited

AR155 – J U N 2017 ARG Visit to Bicester Heritage and Finmere ARG Visit to RAF Digby Andover’s First World War Quarters Croydon Airport- A Brief History Flight Magazine – A Resource, Part 2 Illuminating Thoughts – puzzle Air Dropped Torpedoes, Part 2 Bruntingthorpe Airfield Saunders-Roe and East Cowes Buildings of the Cold War, Part 3 US Army and USAAF Supply Depots

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