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Sculthorpe Training Area

Installations of the Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)Military airbases established in 1943Military training facilitiesNorth NorfolkRoyal Air Force stations in Norfolk
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RAF Sculthorpe 31 Jan 1946 Airphoto
RAF Sculthorpe 31 Jan 1946 Airphoto

Sculthorpe Training Area, previously Royal Air Force Sculthorpe / (RAF Sculthorpe), is a military training site administered by the Defence Training Estate, part of the Ministry of Defence (MoD). It is approximately 3 miles (4.8 kilometres) west of Fakenham in the county of Norfolk in England. The training area occupies the larger part of the former RAF Sculthorpe, a military airbase used by RAF bombers in the later stages of the Second World War (1942–45), by United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) units from 1952 to 1962, and thereafter temporary visiting airmen and support crews of both the Royal Air Force (RAF) and United States Air Force (USAF) until its closure as an active airfield on 2 October 1992 (1992-10-02). In 1997, the Ministry of Defence sold the technical, domestic and administrative site, but retained the airfield itself, including the runways, taxiways, dispersal areas and the adjacent dispersed secure weapon storage area.

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Sculthorpe Training Area
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RAF Sculthorpe 31 Jan 1946 Airphoto
RAF Sculthorpe 31 Jan 1946 Airphoto
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