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Royal Air Force Castle Combe or more simply RAF Castle Combe is a former Royal Air Force station located southeast of Castle Combe, Wiltshire, England. ==History== The Castle Combe airfield opened in May 1941. The land which the airfield occupied belonged to the Castle Combe estate, which was owned by the Gorst family. It was used as a practice landing ground by nearby RAF Hullavington, home of No. 9 Service Flying Training School RAF. Flying training expanded considerably and the facilities were upgraded. Waterlogging was a frequent problem for the grass surface, so two runways of Sommerfeld Tracking were laid and a tarmac perimeter track constructed around the field. There were five hangars on the eastern and south-eastern side of the site; the control tower is still extant. No. 15 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit RAF and No. 3 Flying Instructors School RAF was also present at some point.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Castle Combe )〕 The airfield functioned for seven years before being decommissioned on 18 October 1948.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「RAF Castle Combe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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