Gransden Lodge Airfield is a former wartime airfield located west of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.
The Cambridge University Gliding Club (now Cambridge Gliding Centre) moved to Gransden Lodge in October 1991, having previously shared Duxford Airfield with the Imperial War Museum Duxford.
History Gransden Lodge opened in April 1942 as an operational RAF Bomber Command station called RAF Gransden Lodge with three concrete runways. At the end of 1945 the airfield was transferred to Transport Command but the last operational squadron was disbanded in February 1946. It was used for some motor races, including the first major postwar motor race in the UK on 15 June 1946.
The RAF station closed in 1955.
Operational units Squadron Aircraft Variants From To To Notes No. 53 Squadron Consolidated Liberator VI/VIII 1 December 1945 28 February 1946 Disbanded No. 97 (Straits Settlements) Squadron Avro Lancaster I/III 18 April 1943 18 April 1944 RAF Coningsby Detachment from RAF Bourn. No. 142 Squadron de Havilland Mosquito XXV 25 October 1944 28 September 1945 Disbanded Reformed here. No. 169 Squadron North American Mustang I 5 March 1943 10 March 1943 RAF Bottisham No. 192 Squadron Vickers Wellingtonde Havilland MosquitoHandley Page Halifax IC, III, XIVII 4 January 1943 5 April 1943 RAF Feltwell No. 405 Squadron RCAF Handley Page HalifaxAvro Lancaster III, III 19 April 1943 26 May 1945 RAF Linton-on-Ouse No. 421 Squadron Supermarine Spitfire VB 5 March 1943 10 March 1943 RAF Fowlmere No. 692 (Fellowship of the Bellows) Squadron de Havilland Mosquito XVI 4 June 1945 20 September 1945 Disbanded
Units The following units were also here at some point:
Current use
The Cambridge Gliding Centre now uses the airfield.
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Wartime information Gransden Lodge Airfield history Cambridge Gliding Centre