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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 | |
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| 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. |
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| 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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