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Windermere airfield, Windermere
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Windermere airfield
locality:-   Windermere lake
civil parish:-   Windermere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   airfield (once) 
locality type:-   aircraft factory
coordinates:-   NY390005 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY3900
10Km square:-   NY35

hearsay:-  
Flying boats, the Short Sunderland mark 3, were manufactured at a factory on the east shore of the lake from 1942 to 1944. Other aircraft flew in for repair and maintenance work.

Barnes, C H: 1982: Short Aircraft Since 1900: Putnam
Bowyer, Charles: 1989: Short Sunderland, The: Aston Publications
Davies, Ken: 2001: Lakeland Aviation and Airfields: Regional Publications (Freshwater, Isle of Wight)

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