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Bentwaters, Suffolk

Bentwaters / Butley / Rendlesham
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November 1944
1 July 1993
Industry / Limited Aviation / Filming / Museum
BWY
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18 September 2016
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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


AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 02


AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 03


AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 04


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 688 : 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. 

BUILDING 715 : Passenger Terminal and HM Customs & Excise


BUILDING 717 : Hush House Facility​


BUILDING 725 : 25 Yard Machine Gun Range (Archery Range)

LOCATED AT : ​52.132001, 1.439665
EDOFBID : ​e10380

BUILDING 746 : Base Community Centre


BUILDING 766 : Health & Fitness Center


BUILDING 767 : Shoppette


BUILDING 845 : Unknown


BUILDING 846 : Unknown


BUILDING 850 : Unknown


BUILDING 908 : Runway Arrestor Barrier Installation


BUILDING 909 : Runway Arrestor Barrier Installation


BUILDING 1003 : Northern Flightline Apron


BUILDING 1062 : Heavy Aircraft Parking Pad


BUILDING 1201 : Baseball Pitch


BUILDING 1547 : Petroleum, Oils And Lubricants 'Site B' ​and B System Filter Pad


BUILDING 1602 : Hardened Aircraft Shelter


BUILDING 1604 : Hardened Aircraft Shelter


BUILDING 1605 : Hardened Aircraft Shelter


BUILDING 1607 : Hardened Aircraft Shelter


BUILDING 1608 : Hardened Aircraft Shelter


BUILDING 1609 : Hardened Aircraft Shelter


BUILDING 1610 : Hardened Aircraft Shelter


BUILDING 1614 : Hardened Aircraft Shelter


BUILDING 1615 : Hardened Aircraft Shelter


BUILDING 1616 : Hardened Aircraft Shelter


BUILDING 1617 : Hardened Aircraft Shelter


BUILDING 1618 : Hardened Aircraft Shelter


BUILDING 1619 : Hardened Aircraft Shelter


BUILDING 1622 : Hardened Aircraft Shelter


BUILDING 1679 : Unknown


BUILDING 1680 : Unknown


BUILDING 1681 : Unknown


BUILDING 1682 : Unknown


BUILDING 1683 : Unknown


BUILDING 1684 : 527th Aggressor Squadron Operations Building


MEMORIAL SITE : 81st Fighter Wing Memorial Bench


MEMORIAL SITE : Airman James Ray Short Memorial Plaque


MEMORIAL SITE : BCWM Memorial Plaque


MEMORIAL SITE : Boughton, Downey & Eckes Memorial Bench


MEMORIAL SITE : Colonel George S Dorman Memorial Stadium Sign


MEMORIAL SITE : Linn Barringer Memorial Bench


MEMORIAL SITE : RAF Bentwaters Memorial

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