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Great Orton Airfield, Aikton
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Great Orton Airfield
civil parish:-   Aikton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   airfield (once) 
coordinates:-   NY31035383 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY3153
10Km square:-   NY35


photograph
CBL93.jpg  A building.
(taken 22.8.2014)  
photograph
CBL94.jpg  Monument, Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust.
(taken 22.8.2014)  

hearsay:-  
Opened by the RAF 1943, closed 1952.

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

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