RAF Bassingbourn

I'm trying to get these uploaded and available as quickly as possible, so I'm not going to spend hours taking screenshots and creating pages at the moment. Therefore this is an interim page, sorry.

RAF Bassingbourn opened as a Bomber station in 1937, home to two Squadrons of Hawker Hinds, but had serious drainage problems and was apparently subject to severe waterlogging.

During the inter-war Expansion Period, the airfield had a concrete peri-track and stands built, along with four C Type hangars and better accomodation. Unfortunately the field remained grass and as such the waterlogging problems remained as it became home to bomber training squadrons, who ultimately became No.11 Operational Training Unit.

The station was also used for transport and ferry training units while home to the OTU and Steeple Morden was allocated as a satellite station when aircraft numbers became too great. Hard runways were finally built in 1941 and the RAF moved out in 1943 to allow RAF Bassingbourn to be handed over to the United States Army Air Force on 21st April. After the handover, B-17s of the 91st Bombardment Group arrived from Kimbolton and remained at the station for the remainder of the war.

Post WW2, the station was used by a variety of transport and training units of the RAF including Liberators, PR Mosquitos and, ultimately, Canberra jet bombers. In 1969 the station was handed over from the RAF to the Army, who still use it as a training base to this day.

Please Note: Due to limitations in the way the opening hangar doors were created for this scenery, it may not work properly in DX10 preview mode. I'd never recommend using that anyway, as it is a messy bodge that failed to fulfil pre-release promises, but I know some people won't live without it.

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