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Dunkeswell Aerodrome was built in the Second World War by the RAF, briefly used by the USAF, and then the Fleet Airwing 7 of the USN.
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Dunkeswell Aerodrome is now a busy civilian airfield with a mix of light aircraft, microlights and parachuting.
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Scadding was born in Dunkeswell, Devon, England, and migrated to Canada with his parents, John Scadding and Melicent Triggs, in 1821.
Dunkeswell Abbey, a Cistercian monastery and offshoot of Forde Abbey, was founded in 1201 by William Briwere.
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In the Second World War, airbases were built at Dunkeswell, Upottery and Culmhead.
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On the dissolution of the greater monasteries Henry VIII granted him lands and properties including the Cistercian Abbey at Dunkeswell, Devon, the Abbey of Tavistock, Devon, and the town of Tavistock.
The Domesday Book records that the Hemyock Hundred consisted of the manors of: Awliscombe, Bolham Water, Bywood, Churchstanton ( Somerset ), Clayhidon, Culm Davy, Culm Pyne, Culmstock, Dunkeswell, Gorewell, Hemyock, Hole, Ivedon, Mackham, Weston.
He is buried at Wolford Chapel near Dunkeswell.
There are also religious buildings such as Dunkeswell Abbey and village churches.
The larger, more southerly area in Devon includes Dunkeswell, Upottery, Smeatharpe, Hemyock, Blackborough, Yarcombe, Membury, Stockland, Sheldon and Cotleigh.
There is also evidence of iron workings in the Romano-British period, at Dunkeswell, which radiocarbon dating has placed in the 2nd century.
He is buried at Wolford Chapel near Dunkeswell.
Employment opportunities are concentrated in the surrounding towns and in a number of small-scale industrial parks-notably around Dunkeswell airfield.
* From the East Devon district: Axminster Rural, Axminster Town, Beer and Branscombe, Coly Valley, Dunkeswell, Feniton and Buckerell, Honiton St Michael's, Honiton St Paul's, Newbridges, Otterhead, Seaton, Tale Vale, Trinity, and Yarty.
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The team became universally known as " The Dons " ( from EssenDON ); it was not until much later, during the War years of the early 1940s, that they became known as " The Bombers " — due to Windy Hill ’ s proximity to the Essendon Aerodrome.
The first airport to operate scheduled international commercial services was Hounslow Heath Aerodrome in August 1919, but it was closed and supplanted by Croydon Airport in March 1920.
The unsuccessful Langley Aerodrome was an early example of this layout.
In 1924, the Company left Alexandra Park Aerodrome in south Manchester where test flying had taken place during the period since 1918 and the site was taken over by a mixture of recreation and housing development.
Silver City's first base was at Langley Aerodrome.
Hounslow Heath Aerodrome was a grass airfield, operational 1914-1920.
While the full-scale Aerodrome was being designed and built, the internal combustion engine was contracted out to manufacturer Stephen Balzer ( 1864 – 1940 ).
The Aerodrome was modified and flown a few hundred feet by Glenn Curtiss in 1914, as part of his attempt to fight the Wright brothers ' patent, and as an effort by the Smithsonian to rescue Langley's aeronautical reputation.
The Cricklewood Aerodrome was adjacent to their factory.
Cricklewood Aerodrome adjacent to the Handley Page factory in the 1920s was used for the first London-Paris air service.
Hanworth Aerodrome was a grass airfield, operational 1917-1919 and 1929-1947.
Heston Aerodrome was operational between 1929 and 1947.
Housing and industrial estates have been built on some of the area that was Heston Aerodrome, and the M4 motorway with its large service area ( Heston services ) cuts across the former aerodrome site east-west, but a substantial area to the north of the M4 is host to the Airlinks 18-hole golf course.
Under the Hilliards, Milton Farm was sold to become part of the Swakeleys estate in 1816, and Hill Farm become Northolt Aerodrome in 1916.
It became the Great West Aerodrome, but was acquired by the Ministry of Aviation towards the end of the Second World War, and developed to become Heathrow Airport.
It was the main airport for London before it was replaced by Northolt Aerodrome, London Heathrow Airport and Gatwick Airport.
The airport was expanded during the 1920s, with a new complex of buildings built adjoining Purley Way, including the first purpose-designed air terminal in the UK, the Aerodrome Hotel and extensive hangars.
It was decided in 1952 that the airport would be closed at a suitable future date as Blackbushe Airport in Hampshire and Northolt Aerodrome in Middlesex became to increase the number of airlines operating European scheduled flights during the 1950s.
It was called Gatwick Aerodrome.
The Bayport Aerodrome Society is a non profit organization that was formed in 1972.
The former Royal Air Force Station Kenley, more commonly known as RAF Kenley ( now known as Kenley Aerodrome ) was a station of the Royal Flying Corps in World War I and the RAF in World War II.
The site of the sewage works was the location of the Airedale Aerodrome.
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Of the total, nearly half were built at Avro's Woodford and Chadderton ( Manchester ) sites, with some 700 Lancasters built at the Avro " shadow " factory next to Leeds Bradford Airport ( formerly Yeadon Aerodrome ), northwest Leeds.
Royal Air Force Museum is a museum built on part of the site of Hendon Aerodrome, dedicated to the history of aviation, and the British Royal Air Force in particular.
The Aerodrome Hotel and the terminal building including its grand booking hall were built in the neo-classical geometrical design typical of the early 20th Century.
It was His Highness who got the Patiala Aerodrome built for his use.
Aircraft were built there, and flown from the company's adjacent airfield, known as Cricklewood Aerodrome, which was also used by Handley Page Transport.
In 1929 the Cricklewood Aerodrome was closed and a new one built at Radlett, where most aircraft were now to be constructed.
Raising £ 20, 000, de Havilland bought the relevant assets he needed and in 1920 formed the de Havilland Aircraft Company at Stag Lane Aerodrome, Edgware, where he and his company designed and built a large number of aircraft, including the Moth family.
The club took to the aeroplane with relish, and in July 1909 the Short Brothers established Shellbeach Aerodrome on nearby marshland to accommodate six Wright Flyers, moving a few kilometres the next year to Eastchurch where a new more appropriate aerodrome had been built for the club.
Perhaps Eastleigh's most well known ' resident ' is the Spitfire aeroplane which was built in Southampton and first flown from Eastleigh Aerodrome ( now Southampton International Airport ).
A total of 1, 000 were built in Britain initially at Hatfield Aerodrome and then later at Hawarden Aerodrome.
Until the civil airport was built, the first operations used the Someşeni Military Aerodrome that was founded by the Romanian National Service of Air Navigation () in 1928.
The airfield, then known as Scottow Aerodrome, was initially built as a bomber base, on land near Scottow Hall.
A few Hendon monoplane bombers built at Stockport were flown from Manchester's Barton Aerodrome in 1936.
During the 1930s, new housing was built on Patchway Estate, just north of Filton Aerodrome, and bungalows were built on Stoke Lane.
The site of the current zoo was formerly the location of Rodger Young Village, which was itself built on the land which had been used for the Griffith Park Aerodrome.
After Negril's infrastructure was expanded — anticipating the growth of resorts and an expanding population, a small airport, the Negril Aerodrome, was built in 1976 near Rutland Point, alongside several small hotels mostly catering to the North American winter tourists.
* Fokker D. VIII-N94100-reproduction, one of two built by Brian Coughlin in New York State, powered with a 160 hp Gnome Monosoupape rotary engine and formerly flown at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome
Armstrong Whitworth, aircraft manufacturers based nearby at Whitley Aerodrome, built an aircraft factory on the airport site soon afterwards.
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