RAF Sywell

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The photos you see here were taken in August 2022.

RAF Sywell is one of many historic aerospace centres dotted across Northamptonshire and is well-known for its part in World War Two.

History: The airfield was also known as Staughton Manor or US Army Air Force Station 127 and opened in 1928.

It was handed over to the USAAF in september 1942 for the repair of 1st Bomb Wing B-17 Flying Fortress Bombers.

In March 1944, the airfield was transferred back to RAF control. Two Lancaster squadrons from Oakington and Upwood in Cambridge transferred to the base to form No. 582 Sqn which operated in 1944.

In 1947 the airfield ended up assisting with the care and maintenance of planes.

Brooklands Aviation Ltd, based at Sywell, set up an outstation at Little Staughton from 1952, overhauling three different types of plane.

The area photographed probably stopped operating probably roundabout the 1950s.

Over the next 30 years, a number of different planes were maintaned as an extention of Sywell.
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That is an interesting place and good photos. I thought the container of combs was a really neat photo.
 
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