A few weeks ago I went to Ipswich for work. On a day off day, I explored the surrounding areas and (amongst other places) found this airfield that had been repurposed in to an industrial estate.
This airfield was occupied by the 493rd USAAF squadron from May 1944 for D-Day operations. It was home for nearly 3000 people and B-24 Liberators, which were soon replaced by B-17 Flying Fortresses.
The base was closed in August 1945 and the squadron moved back to the US.
Parts of two of the old runways are in use for commercial units and there is a small museum in the old control tower.
A third runway would have been in the middle of the first image running left to right in a straight line.
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How interesting. Thanks for sharing.
There must be a lot of these up and down the country.
Yep, there's quite a few on my list and more to be discovered! :D
That’s great you’ve got more planned!
Well that's kind of cool. I wonder if the DJI no flight zones would still kick in? I used to live next door to a personal private airport, just the farmers field type, no tower or anything but was still listed on the maps. While it hadn't been used in years and the field totally grown over, it would still trigger the warnings and I'd have to override with permissions.
In this case there was no zone (maybe because it was closed so long ago?) sometimes there are FRZ's where there shouldn't be or in the wrong area like down in Cornwall so it just needs to be unlocked.
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