Expedition reports, cross-country flight achievements, cadet milestones, and airfield updates from Gransden Lodge Airfield.
Sunday, May 4th was a cold and gusty day at Gransden Lodge but this didn`t dampen the enthusiasm to celebrate the 75th anniversary of one of the oldest club members – Slingsby T-21B, known to all as 'Bluebell'. Initially delivered to Cambridge University Gliding Club (now Cambridge Gliding Centre) in 1950, she performed as a … Read more "75 years and still flying high!"
During World War Two one of the major users of Gransden Lodge airfield was the Canadian No. 405 Squadron. Throughout the conflict it had served to mark targets as part of the R.A.F.’s Pathfinder Force, but at the war’s end it took part in several operations that were decidedly less warlike in nature. As the … Read more "V.E. Day at Gransden Lodge"
Today, as on every Remembrance Sunday, we laid a wreath on the RAF Gransden Lodge airfield memorial by the windmill in Great Gransden. The inscription reads: Recognising the sacrifice of the 447 members of the Royal Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force who lost their lives in operations from RAF Gransden Lodge 1942-1945 fighting … Read more "Remembrance Sunday"
