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Updated: 8 Mar 05
Opened: Sep 1916
Closed: Jun 1919
Re-opened: as decoy airfield in 1939
Closed: Aug 1942
Airfield code: X0AN
Squadrons using here:
38 Sqn RFC :: Sep 1916 - May 1918
33 Sqn RFC ::
90 Sqn RAF :: 1919
Anwick was an active airfield during the Great War only, from 1916. It acted as an emergency landing strip for the Home Defence Squadrons which were tackling the Zeppelin threat on the approaches to the Midlands. The airfield was centered 3/4 mile NNW of Awnwick village church (TF110515). A telegraph wire was run from Ruskington village to the airfield. 38 Sqn RFC, based at Melton Mowbray, was responsible for Anwick between Sep 1916 and May 1918.
The landing ground did not support any permanent buildings but covered an area of 54 acres. Night lighting was provided by petrol-soaked rags in cans, categorised as basic lighting.
According to Bomber County, Squadrons based at Anwick airfield received pilots and navigators who had been trained by 33 Sqn RFC.
During World War II Anwick acted as a decoy airfield from 1939 for RAF Digby but closed in 1942, reverting to farmland. During decoy ops, 8 airmen worked shifts from a cramped dugout with an electric generator to light the flarepath. The decoy site was abandoned by Aug 1942.
Anwick lives on in the Old Manor Farm strip at Anwick Garden Centre. There is a single grass strip and one hangar.
N 53°03' W 00°21'
GR 110510
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