42F Squadron Air Training Corps will be commemorating and remembering 100 years of the RAF in conjunction with Norfolk Airfields.
Cadets have been researching airfields and discovering the types of aircraft and activities that have happened there over the past 100 years. Working with local schools and the Heritage centre at RAF Marham, maps of the airfields have been designed as an educational trail.
The trail will start in March until October 2018 and take in 40 WW1 and WW2 airfields around Norfolk. With the help of Open-reach trail markers will be erected on telegraph poles near to each airfield.
I live next to a WW1 and WW2 airfield known as RAF Thetford or Snarehill aerodrome. It was a training field for the original Royal Flying Corps and was active November 1915 to September 1920 although it was probably in use from 1911. From March 1940 to August 1942 it was in use again as a decoy airfield and a bombing range. I can recall local people telling of their visits to the airfield to watch the biplanes taking off and landing, quite heavily in some instances.
The marker for Snarehill is now up along with an information board, about one mile from Thetford on the A1088. I took a quick spin out yesterday afternoon around the area visiting the following airfields at Honnington, Knetishall, Snetterton, Deopham, Watton, Bodney and Methwold but could not find any more markers.
Take a look around your area if you have an old airfield near you and post up some location info.
Cadets have been researching airfields and discovering the types of aircraft and activities that have happened there over the past 100 years. Working with local schools and the Heritage centre at RAF Marham, maps of the airfields have been designed as an educational trail.
The trail will start in March until October 2018 and take in 40 WW1 and WW2 airfields around Norfolk. With the help of Open-reach trail markers will be erected on telegraph poles near to each airfield.
I live next to a WW1 and WW2 airfield known as RAF Thetford or Snarehill aerodrome. It was a training field for the original Royal Flying Corps and was active November 1915 to September 1920 although it was probably in use from 1911. From March 1940 to August 1942 it was in use again as a decoy airfield and a bombing range. I can recall local people telling of their visits to the airfield to watch the biplanes taking off and landing, quite heavily in some instances.
The marker for Snarehill is now up along with an information board, about one mile from Thetford on the A1088. I took a quick spin out yesterday afternoon around the area visiting the following airfields at Honnington, Knetishall, Snetterton, Deopham, Watton, Bodney and Methwold but could not find any more markers.
Take a look around your area if you have an old airfield near you and post up some location info.