COVENTRY AIRFIELD
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Baginton - Coventry Airfield |
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| Airfield Today: | Coventry Airport |
| Tower Type: | Pre war air traffic control building |
| Tower: | Demolished 1996 |
| Other Buildings: | Not known |
| History: | 1935, Planned as a Civil
Airport for Coventry, to be sited alongside the Armstrong Whitworth
Aircraft factory which built Whitley bombers from 1937 to 6/43.
Built Lancasters (later Lincolns) 8/42 to /48. AW also used
manufacturing and airfield runways at Bitteswell. Post war
manufactured Meteor, Sea Hawk, Hunters and Argosy aircraft, factory
closed 7/65. 9/39 to , No 1 Camouflage Unit formed here. 9/40 to 8/41, No 9 Fighter Group HQ formed here with 308 (Polish) Sqn Hurricanes from Speke. Converted to Spitfires before move to Chilbolton 5/41. 3/41 to 5/41, 403 Sqn formed here with Tomahawks, moved to Ternhill. 6/41 to 41, 79, 135, 457 and 605 Sqns here at various times. Airfield used post war by many civil operators. now home to Air Atlantique and the Midland Air Museum. |