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| Walney Island Airfield, Walney Island | ||
| Walney Island Airfield | ||
| Walney Airport | ||
| Barrow Aerodrome | ||
| locality:- | Walney Island | |
| civil parish:- | Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | airfield | |
| coordinates:- | SD17577106 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD1771 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD17 | |
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| hearsay:- |
Opened 1941 and used by the RAF to 1946. Used for a while, about 1984-86, by Air Furness
with scheduled flights to Manchester and the Isle of Man. Now operated privately by
British Aerospace? |
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| Davies, Ken: 2001: Lakeland Aviation and Airfields: Regional Publications (Freshwater,
Isle of Wight) |
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