Gransden Lodge
Major
| Also known as: | Gransden / Gransden Lodge Aerodrome / RAF Gransden Lodge |
| County: | Cambridgeshire |
| Current Status: | Farmland / Aviation |
| Date: | February 1942 - February 1946 (closed to flying) |
| Current Use: | Limited flying |
| Used By: | RAF / Civil |
The following organisations are either based at, use and/or have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 01/09/2011):
- Gransden Airfield Shooting Ground
- Great Gransden Parish Council
- Little Gransden Parish Council
- Longstowe Parish Council
Main unit(s) present:
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No 53 Sqn
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No 97 Sqn
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No 142 Sqn
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No 169 Sqn
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No 192 Sqn
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No 405 Sqn
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No 421 Sqn
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No 692 Sqn
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No 1418 Flight
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No 1474 (Special Duties) Flight
- No 1507 BAT Flight
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No 1696 (Bomber) Defence Training Flight
- No 2708 Sqn RAF Regiment
- No 2784 Sqn RAF Regiment
- Bombing Development Unit
- Cambridge Gliding Centre
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Cambridge University GC
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Pathfinder Navigation Training Unit
Aerial view of Gransden Lodge, 5 April 2009. © Richard Flagg
Aerial view of Gransden Lodge, 5 April 2009. © Richard Flagg
Motor racing returns after the war at Gransden Lodge, 1947. Courtesy of British Pathé
Land yachting at Gransden Lodge in the 1950s. Courtesy of John Davison Snr.
Land yachts racing at Gransden Lodge, 1963. Courtesy of British Pathé