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Bassingham

Decoy
County: Lincolnshire
Current Status: Farmland
Date: 15 July 1941 (earliest known date) - closed by 12 August 1942
Current Use: Disused
Used By: RAF
Decoy Type(s): Q
Decoy Number(s): 92(a)

Bassingham operated as the first listed decoy airfield for during World War Two. No traces of this place appear to have survived.

 

The following organisations are either based at, use and/or have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 31/12/2015):

  • Aubourn and Haddington Parish Council
Parent(s)/HQ Airfield(s):

Swinderby

Associated Airfield(s):

Brant Broughton

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