Airfield of the Week - Fairwood Common

Photograph: © IWM (CH 4607)

Fairwood Common saw action in the Second World War, opening as the home to No 10 Group of Fighter Command. In 1957 the airfield officially opened as Swansea Airport. Read more and see more photographs here.

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