RAF Bardney | Education Video by World of Military

<p>Station History</p><p>The entrance to the former RAF Bardney airfield can be found 1.5 miles north-east of Bardney village on Henry Lane. Opened on 18th January 1943 and built as a Class 'A' bomber airfield for 5 Group, it had the usual three intersecting concrete runways arranged in a triangular layout connected by a 50ft wide perimeter track which gave access to 36 aircraft dispersals. At Class 'A' standard airfields, the main runway was 2000 yards long and the two subsidiary runways were each 1400 yards in length all at a width of 50 yards. The technical site at Bardney was located between the main entrance and the perimeter track and contained workshops, stores, briefing rooms and a watch office amongst others. Two hangars, a T2 and a B1, were also located in the technical site, with a further T2 located off the western perimeter track. Communal and accommodation sites were dispersed in woodland to the south; the bomb stores were located in Austacre Wood north-east of the airfield. </p><p><br></p><p> Bardney airfield was home to No.9 Squadron's Lancasters for most of its wartime life, the unit arriving from Waddington on 14th April 1943 and staying until the end of the war.