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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


photograph
BUV74.jpg (taken 1.7.2011)  

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?

Davies, Ken: 2001: Lakeland Aviation and Airfields: Regional Publications (Freshwater, Isle of Wight)

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