Opened:
1926 as gunnery training camp,
Renamed:
1 Jan 1932 as No 3 Armament Training Camp Full Airfield
opened: 1936
Closed:
Airfield inactive from 1946, closed 1958
Airfield
code :: SB
Squadrons
based here:
6
OTU (Operational Training Unit) :: 9 Mar 1940
renamed
56 OTU :: 1 Nov 1940
- 27 Mar 1942
254
Sqn :: 9 Dec 1939 - 28 Jan 1940
264
Sqn :: 30 Oct
1939 - 7 Dec 1939
266
Sqn :: 30 Oct
1939 - 1 Mar 1940
Central
Gunnery School :: 1942 -
7
FTS (Service Flying Training School ) :: 1944 - 1946
58
MU :: 1954 -
6 OTU was formed
from 11 Group Pool. 264 Sqn formed here
but was not equipped with Defiant until it moved on to Martlesham Heath.
RAF Sutton Bridge now finds gainful employment as a potato store.
RAF Sutton Bridge was protected by a night decoy airfield Q site on
Terrington
Marsh, just across the Norfolk border.
Malcolm Swan recalls visiting RAF Sutton Bridge to be demobbed in January
1955. I recalls an early morning parade being interupted by an invasion
of cows.
For details of the
Sutton Bridge RAF Memorial Chapel visit the memorials
page. Find out more about
RAF Sutton Bridge in published books :: click here.
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