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Royal Air Force Methwold or more simply RAF Methwold is a former Royal Air Force station located 2.1 miles (3.4 km) north east of Feltwell, Norfolk and 10.9 miles (17.5 km) north west of Thetford, Norfolk, England.
RAF METHWOLD 1938 -1958. At the end of the 1930’s as the possibility of war with Nazi Germany grew ever stronger the Air Ministry began to look for new sites to expand the number of airfields in East Anglia.
RAF Methwold was officially closed down in June 1958, the land being returned to its former owners or their families. In the 1960’s much of the concrete runways were broken up and the area returned largely to agriculture.
There are:56 items tagged RAF Methwold available in our Library. These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Second World War. George Fenwick Findley 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron.
Up until 1984, the only RAF connection was that Miller's plane had taken off from the RAF airfield at Twinwood Farms, Bedfordshire in weather conditions which could be described as marginal, or at least marginal for that type of aircraft.
Aug 25, 2024 · On the day of the incident, the Lancaster Bomber took off from RAF Methwold, in Norfolk, at 18:55 BST to strike a V-1 Flying Bomb site in Vincly, France. Seven men were on board when the...
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Feb 27, 2020 · RAF Methwold opened as a dispersal airfield for RAF Feltwell in the Winter of 1938. Vickers Wellington bombers from Feltwell continued to use the site as a satellite base until the grass airfield was transferred to No. 2 Group in the exchange of bases with No. 3 Group, in the summer of 1942.
