Woodford, Cheshire
Woodford
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Opened :
Closed : Current use : IATA : ICAO : EDOFBID : This page updated : USAAF Sta No : Website : |
21 July 1925
25 August 2011 Development Land / Housing / Museum WFD EGCD e00996 22 May 2026 N/A www.avroheritagemuseum.co.uk |
AIRFIELD SITE
AIRFIELD SITE : Aerial Views of Woodford Aerodrome
AIRFIELD SITE : Aircraft Dispersal 01
AIRFIELD SITE : Aircraft Dispersal 02
AIRFIELD SITE : Aircraft Engine Running Site
AIRFIELD SITE : Brown Zone
AIRFIELD SITE : Compass Platform
AIRFIELD SITE : Crash Gate
AIRFIELD SITE : Emergency Water Supply
AIRFIELD SITE : Fire Station
This building has been restored and is now the Avro Heritag Museum.
AIRFIELD SITE : Flight Simulator Buildings
AIRFIELD SITE : Glideslope Antenna Array
AIRFIELD SITE : Hangar 5 and the Structure Test House Annexe
AIRFIELD SITE : Hangar 3 Offices
AIRFIELD SITE : Holding Point 'B'
AIRFIELD SITE : Instrument Landing System (ILS)
AIRFIELD SITE : LAC (Avro) Hangar
This was demolished in 2016.
AIRFIELD SITE : Main Entrance & Guard House
AIRFIELD SITE : Paint Shop
AIRFIELD SITE : Precision Approach Path Indicator (PAPI) Lights
AIRFIELD SITE : Runway 02/20
AIRFIELD SITE : Runway 07/25
AIRFIELD SITE : Runway Crossing Traffic Lights
AIRFIELD SITE : Taxiways
AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 01
AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 02
AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 03
MEMORIALS AT WOODFORD
MEMORIAL SITE : Avro Works Woodford Plaque
MEMORIAL SITE : Chief Test Pilots Plaque
MEMORIAL SITE : David W Moore Memorial
MEMORIAL SITE : Lancashire Aero Club Centenery Memorial Plaque
MEMORIAL SITE : Lancaster (PB579) Memorial Plaque
MEMORIAL SITE : Roy Chadwick Way
MEMORIAL SITE : Shackleton MR.3 (WR970) Memorial Plaque
MEMORIAL SITE : Sir Roy Hardy Dobson Memorial
MEMORIAL SITE : Tudor Mk.2 (G-AGSU) Memorial Plaque
MEMORIAL SITE : Woodford (Christ Church) Churchyard
Buried and Remembered in this Churchyard are:
Roy Chadwick
Sir Roy Hardy Dobson
Sergeant Charles Bertram Morris (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Thomas Grahame Wood (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Roy Chadwick
Sir Roy Hardy Dobson
Sergeant Charles Bertram Morris (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Thomas Grahame Wood (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
MISCELLANEOUS
MISCELLANEOUS : Aviation Related Road Names
The following road names are documented using google maps, the aviation links are yet to be confirmed on all the listed road names, the supected links are listed. If anyone has any further information to support any of the road names, please get in touch.
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Appleford Close
Ashton Close Avro Crescent Beaumont Crescent Boulton Avenue Browning Lane Bulman Close Burford Court Chadwick Avenue Derry Lane Dobson Lane Everett Drive Fairey Drive Fillingham Way Fulmar Road Garland Street Glasson Close Griffon Lane Halford Court Hampden Crescent Hangar Crescent Hawker Road Lancastrian Way Lincoln Court Lovell Avenue Mannock Street Merlin Close Nash Close Nettleton Lane Nicolson Avenue Nimrod Grove Oldland Close Orrell Crescent Ossington Lane Palmer Avenue Pierse Street Pilot Court Proctor Crescent Richards Street Ringway Avenue Saunders Roe Way Selkirk Road Swales Crescent Thompson Close Verdon Roe Avenue Vulcan Close Waight Close Walker Grove Whittington Road Wilfrid Lane Woodhouse Crescent Woodward Avenue York Gardens |
Named after Alexander N Robin L Appleford, one of 'The Few'.
Named after the Avro Ashton aircraft. Named after the Avro aircraft company. Named after Roland Prosper 'Bee' Beamont. Link not yet known. Link not yet known. Link not yet known. Link not yet known. Named after Roy Chadwick. Named after test pilot John Derry. Named after Sir Roy Hardy Dobson. Link not yet known. Named after theFairey Aviation Company. Link not yet known. Link not yet known. Named after Donald Edward Garland VC. Link not yet known. Link not yet known. Link not yet known. Named after the Handley Page Hamden aircraft. Named after the airfield Hangars. Either named after Lanoe George Hawker VC or named after Hawker Aircraft Company. Named after the Avro Lancastrian aircraft. Named after the Avro Lincoln aircraft. Link not yet known. Named after Edward Corringham 'Mick' Mannock VC. Named after the Rolls Royce Merlin aircraft engine. Link not yet known. Named after John Dering Nettleton VC. Named after James Brindley Eric Nicolson VC. Named after the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod aircraft. Link not yet known. Link not yet known. Link not yet known. Named after Frederick William Palmer VC. Link not yet known. Named to remember the Pilots who flew from Woodford. Named after Arthur Herbert Procter VC. Link not yet known. Named after Ringway Aerodrome (Now Manchester Aiport). Named after Saunders Roe Ltd. Link not yet known. Named after Edwin 'Ted' Essery Swales VC. Named aftr George Thompson VC. Named after Alliott Verdon Roe. Named after the Avro Vulcan aircraft. Link not yet known. Link not yet known. Link not yet known. Link not yet known. Link not yet known. Link not yet known. Named after the Avro York aircraft. |
MISCELLANEOUS : The Aviator
MUSEUM SITE : AVRO HERITAGE MUSEUM
MUSEUM SITE : Aircraft at the Avro Heritage Museum
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REGISTRATION / SERIAL
TX214
TX235 G-AGPG BAPC.471 XM602 XM603 WZ744 WR960 G-CFTF BAPC.328 WK118 UNMARKED G-ORAL XV235 G-ROEI XV106 |
TYPE
Avro 652A Anson C.19
Avro 652A Anson C.19 Avro 652A Anson C.19 Series 2 Avro 683 Lancaster B.X Replica Avro 698 Vulcan B.2 Avro 698 Vulcan B.2 Avro 707C Avro 716 Shackleton AEW.2 Avro Triplane 1 Replica Avro Type F Replica English Electric Canberra TT.18 Handley Page Victor Simulator Hawker Siddeley HS.748 Series 2A Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR.2 Roe 1 Biplane Vickers VC10 C.1K |
NOTES / STATUS
Stored
Stored (Frame only) Cockpit only Forward fuselage and Cockpit Cockpit only Stored Stored Stored Stored Stored Cockpit only Forward fuselage and Cockpit Stored Cockpit only |
MUSEUM SITE : Avro Heritage Museum
The Avro Heritage Museum is housed in what was the airfield fire station.
