Motormouse
SOH-CM-2024
A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category FS 2004 Scenery
Description: Here is another of my ez scenery / Afcad creations for fs9/2004
This time its RAF Carew Cheriton in Pembrokeshire, South Wales, prompted by Huub's repaint of an Avro Anson that was based there.
Carew Cheriton 4.6 miles nw of Tenby, was built on the site of the earlier WW1 Balloon station ,RNAS Pembroke which had been decommissioned and sold off during the inter-war period.
However WW2 saw the large RAF Coastal Command base at RAF Pembroke Dock in need short range escort and anti-submarine units to support operations, this resulted in the re-opening of the old airship station and utilising additional fields to build a three runway airfield for No. 15 Group RAF.
Construction commenced in 1938,and the airfield re-opened in April 1939, some months before the start of the Second World War. Three concrete runways were built by the early 1940s, including two Bellman hangars and two Bessonneau hangars. (later replaced by Blister hangars. With the airfield being used as a support station for the flying boat operations at RAF Pembroke Dock, instead of using the old name of Pembroke, it was renamed as RAF Carew Cheriton which enabled it to be distinguished from RAF Pembroke Dock. Operational until 942 the airfield was then handed over to Flying Training Command; and became No:10 , Radio School until it was closed in 1945; the airfield then reverted to 'care and maintenance', was briefly active again in 1950's as home to Pembroke Dock Station flight; and was last used by RN Wessex helicopters on exercise in June of 1976
The tower is now a museum, https://www.carewcheritoncontroltower.co.uk/ and is a unique design being a representation in brick of the first tower that was there; which was made from the salvaged wheelhouse (in wood) of the wrecked SS Montrose (of Dr Crippen infamy) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Montrose_(1897)
and which was put in place when the airfield originally opened as a Royal Navy balloon station in ww1
I've used static objects by the usual suspects...Ted Andrews, Sid Schwartz, the UKvfr Library, Airfield Construction Group (Duxford and Coningsby sceneries) Exclude file included but no ground poly ( my system won't run Sbuilder )
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