Relocated Hangars

On a visit to Chivenor in Sept 2007, I was told that the SAR 9-bay T2 Hangar A came from Wattisham.

A T2 hangar at Risby, Bury St Edmunds (TL801653) off the A14 on the S side of the railway, close to & used by a large Claas agricultural machinery base, came from Westley airfield?

The Hangar (yes there was only one) at RAF Laarbruch came from the German airfield at Oldenburg.

Canberra: Depends what you mean by only one hangar at Laarbruch. There was one main hangar on the south side, used by Aircraft Servicing Flight, and I presume that was the one you believe was relocated from Oldenburg. There are also four T2-style hangars, one in each of the squadron sites at the four corners of the airfield. I may have some data somewhere, but these look like T2s - so where did they come from?

There were 6 hangars at Laarbruch, at least there were when I was there in the late 1980's. The ASF hangar on the south side (which looks like it is used as the terminal building now) was definately not a T2. Each squadron had a hangar on its dispersal. I didn't think that these were T2s. However looking at some pictures of Laarbruch on airliners.net the hangars look like they could be modified and reclad T2s. There was also another hangar which was used by the gliding club, located next to the XV squadron dispersal, in the south west corner, which I think was a T2. The army also used this hangar to store their heavy airfield repair trucks.

Also there was still a T2 hangar on the North West dispersal at Honington when I was there in 1984. I guess it was removed when the HAS site was built there later. Only one HAS site at Honington In 1984. Does this help in trying to locate the source of the T2s at Chivenor and Wattisham?

There is this hangar adjacent to the former Portsmouth airport. Was it one belonging to the airfield or is it a transplant?

www.flashearth.com/?lat=50.82963 ... =0&src="msa"

Looks like a 'C' Type which was not exactly portable so probably it is in its original location.

Any ideas?

PETERTHEEATER wrote:

There is this hangar adjacent to the former Portsmouth airport. Was it one belonging to the airfield or is it a transplant?

www.flashearth.com/?lat=50.82963 ... =0&src="msa"

Looks like a 'C' Type which was not exactly portable so probably it is in its original location.

Any ideas?

Peter

Can the location / flashearth link be re-posted please? Thanks