Bentwaters

Bentwaters, Suffolk

Bentwaters / Butley / Rendlesham

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November 1944
1 July 1993
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Bentwaters Cold War Museum
Bentwaters Parks

AIRFIELD SITE : 360 Degree Aerial Video of RAF Bentwaters Airfield

360 Degree Aerial Video of RAF Bentwaters Airfield - 17 September 2017

AIRFIELD SITE : Aerial Views of RAF Bentwaters

AIRFIELD SITE : Aircraft Dispersals

AIRFIELD SITE : Aircraft Readiness Platform

AIRFIELD SITE : Airfield Boundary Markers

AIRFIELD SITE : Airfield Views

AIRFIELD SITE : Airfield Warning Signs

AIRFIELD SITE : Gate Guard

AIRFIELD SITE : RAF Bentwaters Sign

AIRFIELD SITE : Runway 07/25

AIRFIELD SITE : Runway 14/32

AIRFIELD SITE : Runway 18/36

AIRFIELD SITE : Taxiways

AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 01

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BUILDING 4 : 81st Transportation Squadron Offices

This building was built c.1987

BUILDING 8 : Unknown

BUILDING 15 : Unknown

BUILDING 20 : Main Entrance & Guard Hut

BUILDING 40 : Unknown

Built in 1943/44 this building was originally the Gas Clothing & Respirator Store. It has had various uses over the years but it is not known what its main use was for.

BUILDING 41 : Unknown

BUILDING 43 : Wash Rack

BUILDING 45 : 81st Transportation Commander, First Sgt Orderly Room & Surface Freight

Originally built in around 1943 this is a wartime T2 Aircraft Shed (Hangar). The annexes are post war additions.

BUILDING 53 : Consolidated Base Personnel Office

BUILDING 57 : Bus Shelter

BUILDING 59 : Postal Service Center

BUILDING 60 : Unknown

This was originally built as the WW2 Night Flying Equipment Store

BUILDING 61 : Control Tower

BUILDING 62 : Unknown

This was originally built as the WW2 Floodlight Trailer & Tractor Shed

BUILDING 63 : Ivy Lodge Gate Entrance & Guard Hut

BUILDING 89 : Unknown

BUILDING 110 : Unknown

This building was a WW2 Picket Post for the Administration Site.

BUILDING 111 : Unknown

This building was the WW2 Crew Briefing Room.

BUILDING 114 : Unknown

This building was the WW2 Operations Block.

BUILDING 117 : Unknown

This building was the WW2 Norden Bomb Site Store.

BUILDING 118 : Unknown

BUILDING 119 : Unknown

BUILDING 121 : Unknown

BUILDING 123 : Bird Control Hut

BUILDING 126 : Unknown

BUILDING 128 : 81st Tactical Fighter Wing Headquarters

BUILDING 131 : Fuel Control Centre & Drivers Lounge

BUILDING 134 : Hardened Command Post

BUILDING 136 : Supply Squadron

BUILDING 137 : Unknown

BUILDING 153 : Base Chapel & Memorial Gardens

BUILDING 174 : Unknown

BUILDING 398 : Fissile Pit Storage Igloo

BUILDING 399 : Weapons Storage Area Maintenance & Inspection Building

BUILDING 400 : Unknown

BUILDING 403 : Water Tower

BUILDING 510 : Unknown

BUILDING 520 : 81st Tactical Fighter Wing Mission Support Building

BUILDING 522 : Hardened POL Vehicle Shelter

BUILDING 524 : Garages

BUILDING 548 : Unknown

BUILDING 551 : Weapons Storage Area Guard Tower

BUILDING 552 : Bomb Storage Igloo

BUILDING 553 : Bomb Storage Igloo

BUILDING 557 : Fire Department Building & Emergency Vehicles Garage

BUILDING 558 : Unknown

BUILDING 560 : Weapons Storage Area Alert Fire Team Facility

This building was used in the 1970's and 1980's as the Weapons Storage Area Alert Fire Team Facility. It may well of had other uses but I am not sure what these were.

BUILDING 564 : Deputy Commander Operations & Wing Intelligence

BUILDING 567 : Deputy Commander Maintenance

BUILDING 568 : Unknown

BUILDING 571 : Unknown

BUILDING 588 : Unknown

BUILDING 589 : 81st Component Repair Squadron Jet Propulsion Shop

BUILDING 596 : Latrine Block

BUILDING 638 : A-10 Aircraft Simulator Facility

BUILDING 640 : Weapons Storage Igloo Type C

BUILDING 643 : Weapons Storage Igloo Type C

BUILDING 644 : Weapons Storage Igloo Type C

BUILDING 649 : Weapons Storage Area Guard Post & Security Gate

BUILDING 656 : Emergency Water Supply

BUILDING 658 : Unknown

BUILDING 661 : 81st Security Police Squadron K9 Dog Section

BUILDING 662 : Unknown

BUILDING 667 : Victor Alert Shed

BUILDING 669 : Victor Alert Shed

BUILDING 672 : Victor Alert Shed

BUILDING 673 : Victor Alert Shed

BUILDING 676 : Unknown

BUILDING 678 : Victor Alert Area Entry Control Point

BUILDING 679 : 81st Security Police Wing Security Control

BUILDING 682 : Unknown

BUILDING 689 : Unknown

BUILDING 690 : Unknown

BUILDING 693 : Unknown

BUILDING 700 : 81st Component Repair Squadron Test Cell

BUILDING 705 : Unknown

This building was thought to have been the Missile Maintenance Office. However, further info supplied by Jeff Richardson indicates that this building was the 81st EMS Muntions Flight supervision, administration, CAS-B, and Line Delivery Building. However I am told that this building was not completed until after the base closed it seems that actual use and planned use may have been different.