AIR BASE AT CEYLON
PROGRESS ON TRINCOMALEE
LONDON, May 5. Rapid progress is being made with the Trincomalee Air Base, Ceylon, where the first R.A.F. machines will be stationed at the end of the year. It will accommodate two squadrons. Covering a square mile, it will cost £384,000, with an additional £25,000 for the landing ground. The personnel at first will number only twenty, but later the base will be extended to become one of the most important in the Empire. The air base will complete the defences of the Trincomalee dockyard.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 113, 14 May 1937, Page 10
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92AIR BASE AT CEYLON Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 113, 14 May 1937, Page 10
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