BRITISH AIRFIELDS
560 OCCUPIED BY R.A.F.
ONLY SIX RELEASED
(10 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 17. Five hundred and sixty airfields were either constructed or extended in the United Kingdom and the North of Ireland between September 1938 and September 1945 for the Royal Air Force, savs The Times’ aeronautical correspondent. Two hundred and fiftytwo are still being used for flying and 268 are occupied by ground units or as storage depots. Only six Royal Air Force airfields have so far been returned to civil use. _______
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21899, 18 December 1945, Page 5
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