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Opened: Nov 1916 Closed: 1920 Airfield code: XOSQ Squadrons based here: 69 Sqn (Australian) AFC :: Dec 1916 - Jul 1917 39 Sqn :: ?? 96 Sqn :: 8 Oct 1917 - 4 Jul 1918 43 Sqn US Army Air Service :: 16 Mar 1918 - 14 Oct 1918 23 Training Wing :: 1918 34 TDS :: 1918 46 TDS :: 1918 25 Sqn :: 6 Sep 1919 - 3 Dec 1919 South Carlton airfield was abandoned after the Great War. 69 (Australian) Squadron69 (Australian) Sqn "Operta aperta - secrets revealed" trained here after arrival from Point Cook in Victoria, Australia and was subordinated to 23 Wing RFC. Originally designated 2 Sqn AFC it was redesignated on arrival at South Carlton aerodrome and again renamed on 20 Jan 1918 to 3 Sqn AFC. The Sqn was trained at South Carlton on Avro 504 and BE-2e aircraft for 8 months before re-equipping to 3 flights of six RE-8. It then departed to Cambrai, France by Sep 1917. It undertook the unglamorous ‘Corps Reconnaissance’ role, mapping trench systems, artillery spotting and the close support of infantry. During the its period of active service it suffered 23 fatal casualties, lost 11 aircraft and claimed to have destroyed 16 enemy aircraft in combat. 96 Squadron96 Sqn RFC was formed at South Carlton on 8 Oct 1917 as a training unit but was disbanded on 4 Jul 1918. It reformed at Wyton on 28 September 1918 as a ground attack Squadron but did not become operational before the Armistice so its formation was abandoned. 43 Aero Squadron, Air Service of the US ArmyOrganized as 43 Provisional Squadron on 13 Jun 1917 and re-designated 43 Aero Squadron on 26 Jun 1917, this United States squadron was posted to South Carlton from 16 Mar to 14 Oct 1918. From 14 Aug there were detachments at Hooten Park, Grantham, and Beaulieu). 43 Sqn was earmarked for service as a pursuit unit, but arrived in France shortly before hostilities ceased on 11 Nov 1918, never becoming operational before demobilization in 1919 :: click here
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3 Sqn AFC page on Australian War Memorial site 69 Sqn history on AustralianFlyingCorps.org 43 Aero Squadron information Aviation
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