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AIRFIELD REVIEW

The Journal of the Airfield Research Group

The journal was initially called Airfield Report, then ARG Newsletter, finally becoming
Airfield Review in 1985. The number of pages has varied from initially just 6, occasio-
nally to up to 60 (a few issues in c.2004). Typically 44, recent journals have been 48.
There appear to have been three versions of the ARG index/ table of contents
produced for the magazine since its conception. The first was that by David Hall
c.1986, which was a very detailed publication and was extensively cross-referenced.
For example if an article contained the sentence, ‘The squadron’s flights were
temporarily located at Tangmere and Kenley’, then both sites would appear in the index.
It also included titles of ‘Books Reviewed’ etc
Since then the list has been considerably simplified with only article headings noted.
I suspect that to create a current cross-reference list would take around a day per
magazine which equates to around eight months work and is clearly impractical.
The second version was then created in December 2009 by Richard Flagg with help
from Peter Howarth, Bill Taylor, Ray Towler and myself.
A third index was then generated by the late Jim Hope in MS Excel spreadsheet
format which made sorting by both date and article title very easy. Unfortunately it
did not include numerous minor articles, many of which were extremely good.
So, this list has been compiled from Richard’s 2009 list and has been significantly
updated. It was found there were a lot of inconsistencies in that list (not in any way
due to Richard). These included confusingly and incorrectly titled articles, e.g. there
would be a ‘Part 2’ but apparently no ‘Part 1’. (This was often due to the original
article having a different title).
Also many titles need augmenting, e.g. ‘Two Control Towers’ (which two), Further
Airfield Visits ? I have corrected a number of these, but there is still a lot more to be
done; many titles offer no hint as to the article’s content. A title can be a multi-page
in-depth article, or sometimes just a single fuzzy photograph. In essence each and
every magazine needs to be appraised – a time-consuming job, akin to painting the
Forth Bridge.
Hence this document is still very much work-in-progress. It is hoped that a future
version will correct a significant number of these inconsistencies.
NB: the ‘regulars’ for the magazine are shown in green.
Updated and reformatted: Graham Crisp, July 2017
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AIRFIELD REPORT VOLUME 1 NO.1 – APPROX DEC 1977? (AR1)
Editorial
Visiting Airfields SLGs and RLGs
Are You Aware or Did You Know?
AIRFIELD REPORT VOLUME 1 NO.2 – UNDATED (AR2)
Editorial
Broadwell Tower The Story of RAF Harrowbeer

AIRFIELD REPORT THEN BECAME ARG NEWSLETTER
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 1 NO.3 – AUG 78 (AR3)
Editorial Library Landings
Where Have All the Aeroplanes Gone? Kings Cliffe – A Fighter Field
Airfield Visit [Kings Cliffe]
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 1 NO.4 – UNDATED (AR4)
Editorial Group Visits Library Landings
Exchanging Airfield Photographs Chalgrove Airfield
Unusual Buildings at Langham, Norfolk
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 1 NO.5 – DEC 1978 / JAN 1979 (AR5)
Editorial Library Landings
Horsham St Faith Aerial Airfield Photos
Whitchurch Airport Kimbolton 1845
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 1 NO.6 – UNDATED (AR6)
Library Landings Editorial
Horsham St Faith (Continued) RAF Bishop’s Court
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 2 NO.1 – OCT 78? (AR7)
Editorial Library Landings Book Reviews
Croydon Airport Society Working Day
A Short History of RAF Digby RAF Station Worksop
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 2 NO.2 – UNDATED (AR8)
Editorial Library Landings
RAF Station Winthorpe
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 2 NO.3 – UNDATED (AR9)
Editorial
Thorpe Abbots A Visit to Framlingham
Fowlmere, One or Two Airfields? Eight in Eight Hours (Notts / Leics area)
The Half Moon Pub, Rushall
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 2 NO.4 – UNDATED (AR10)
Editorial Library Landings Area Group Leaders
Mayday Column
Disappearing Airfields Airfield and Airport Information Services
Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire Desborough
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ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 2 NO.5 – UNDATED (AR11)
Editorial Mayday Column
Bitteswell, Leicestershire Disappearing Airfields
Airfield Names A Visit to Tangmere
Fred Cubberley Describes his Tower Visits, 1978 Further Airfield Visits
North Witham
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 2 NO.6 – (AR12)
NOT PUBLISHED
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 2 NO.7 – UNDATED (AR13)
Editorial AGM Mayday Column
Library Landings Publications Received
Airfield Plans Airfield Snippets
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 2 NO.8 – UNDATED (AR14)
Editorial Mayday Column Important News
RAF Moreton-in-Marsh Are You Hung Up on Hangars?
Airfield Snippets RAF Edgehill
Where is that Hangar Now?
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 2 NO.9 – UNDATED (AR15)
Editorial Minutes of 1980 Meeting Mayday Column
What Do You Want? ARG Raffle
Airfield Snippets Extra Snippets
Airfield Spotlight Airfields in Norfolk
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 2 NO.10 – UNDATED (AR16)
Editorial Book Review Memories
Passing Airfields More About Airfields – East Wretham
Airfield Snippets Airfield Photographs Exchange
The Castle Bromwich Airfield and Aircraft Factory A Visit to Scotland
A Hampshire Landmark
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 2 NO.11 – UNDATED (AR17)
Editorial Library Landings Mayday Column
Yorkshire Eight Airfield Snippets
A Reported Tour South Wales Airfields
Newsletter Addendum
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 2 NO.12 – UNDATED (AR18)
Editorial Publications Received
Disused Airfields as Industrial Archaeology Wash in wartime
Tibenham, Norfolk A Journey, (Snailwell, Gransden etc)
A History of RAF Greenham Common A Visit to RAF Bentley Priory, Stanmore
Of Fuel and Fences, (GPSS)
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 2 NO.13 – UNDATED (AR19)
Editorial Mayday! Library Landings
Airfields, (some minor sites in Norfolk) Pulham, After the Airships
Basic History of RAF Cardington and Current Activities Locations of Chichester Airfields
Airfield Snippets
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AR VOLUME THREE DOES NOT EXIST

ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 4 NO.1 – UNDATED (AR20)
Editorial Library Landings
Glatton – A Fen Airfield
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 4 NO.2 – UNDATED (AR22)
Editorial ARG Constitution and Rules Mayday Mayday
Watch Office Chat Airfields in the News
Airfield Snippets – South and South-West
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 4 NO.3 – UNDATED (AR22)
Editorial Library Landings Watch Office Chat
A Brief History of RAF Manby Oil Charter to Curacao, 1947 Style
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 4 NO.4 – UNDATED (AR23)
Mayday! Mayday!
Broxbourne Firbeck, Yorks
Recollections of Building a Bomber Base
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 4 NO.5 – UNDATED (AR24)
Editorial Airfield Snippets Watch Office Chat
Radar Stations, South-West England – WW II Warboys Chain Gang
Walsall/Aldridge, Staffs
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 4 NO.6 – UNDATED (AR25)
Editorial Library Landings
Bircham Newton (Norfolk) – UT to WWII York Clifton (Part 1)
Airfield Snippets Minor Aerodromes
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 5 NO.1 – UNDATED (AR26)
Editorial Library Landings
A National Serviceman in Shropshire, 1953–55 RNAS Crimond
Goxhill, Lincolnshire
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 5 NO.2 – UNDATED (AR27)
Chairman’s Report Editorial Library Landings
Travelling Problems (various sites, Dorset, Wilts, Devon) Comments on Hangar Types
RAF Hendon, 1944–45
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 5 NO.3 – UNDATED (AR28)
Editorial Library Landings Airfield News
Mayday Column
Barford St John (Oxon) Airfield Snippets
Exotic Birds – South and South-West England RAF Kemble
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ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 5 NO.4 – DEC 1982 / JAN 1983 (AR29)
Library Landings
Seething, 1960 Stars and Stripes in the South-West
Airfield Snippets Bircham Newton (continued) WWII to Date
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 5 NO.5 – FEB / MAR 1983 (AR30)
History of Middle Wallop, Hampshire Ancient Monuments
Post-War Rackheath Old warden – Before the Open Days
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 5 NO.6 – APR/MAY 1983 (AR31)
Editorial Library Landings Mayday! Mayday!
Chairman’s Report
Early Aviation at Huntingdon Aircraft Sheds / Hangars
Sibson
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 6 NO.1 / 2 (DOUBLE ISSUE) – UNDATED (AR32 / 33)
Editorial Agenda Airfield News
Library Landings Questionnaire Form Mayday! Mayday!
The ARG and the Future Known Decoy Sites
Inspecting Airfield Camouflage over Scotland RAF Oakington
Yorkshire News Airfields in Northern Scotland
Inter-War and WWII Watch Offices/Control Towers WWII USAAF Stations / Airfield Names
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 6 NO.3 – JUN 1984 (AR34)
Editorial AGM 84 Library Landings
Amendments News and Information
Old Buckenham, Norfolk Earlham Park, Norfolk
Wroughton
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 6 NO.4 – SEP 1984 (AR35)
Library Landings Mayday! Mayday!
Airfield Snippets Hemswell
Wartime Two-Letter Identity Codes Rattlesden – Current Use
Return to Methwold
ARG NEWSLETTER VOL 6 NO.5 – JAN 1985 (AR36)
Chairman’s Letter Editorial Mayday! Mayday!
Library Landings Airfield News and Snippets
RAF Calshot, 1913–16 Nostalgia (Salisbury Plain airfields)
RAF Upavon Wiltshire Wanderings
Harling Road Marham
Yorkshire Air Museum Blackbushe Airport
Historical Research Project on Woodley Aerodrome, Reading

ARG NEWSLETTER THEN BECAME AIRFIELD REVIEW
AR VOL 7 NO.1 – JUN 1985 (AR37)
Editorial AGM Report Airfield News
RAF Molesworth Aircraft Arrester Gear
Heacham, Norfolk WWII Airfield Construction
No.28 Satellite Landing Ground, Barton Abbey
No.274 Maintenance Unit, Swannington etc (Mosquito storage)
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AR VOL 7 NO.2 – JUL 1985 (AR38)
Editorial Letters Airfield News
Help wanted
Memories of Hinstock Aerodrome Barrage Balloon Depots
Development of Airfield Landing Grounds Airfield Building Types, No.1 – AML Bombing Teacher
Airfields Abroad Lowestoft, Suffolk
Southern wanderings RAF/AAC Netheravon
AR VOL 7 NO.3 – SEP 1985 (AR39)
Current Research in Progress Editorial Readers Letters
New Publications and Book reviews Airfield News
South Marston – An Outline History Airfield Abroad
Airfield Building Types, No.2 – Gymnasium/Church/Cinema Pre-history of Wroughton Airfield
Early Memories of Oulton Jottings from Northern Ireland
816th Engineer Battalion in WWII Recollections of RAF Linton-on-Ouse
AR VOL 7 NO.4 – JAN 1986 (AR40)
Editorial Readers' Letters Airfield News
Airfields Abroad Book Reviews New Publications
AAF Numbers, Revised RAF Foulsham, Part 1
South Marston -An Outline History, Part 2 RAF Lindholme
Airfield Building Types, No.3 – Turret Trainer Building Short-lived East Anglian Aerodromes
RAF Westley - Bury St Edmunds Poling - A Mystery Airstrip
The Development of Airfield Landing Grounds, Part 2 The Use of Barrage Balloons
The Great Aerial Display - Mousehold Heath, 1929 Last Surviving Target Screen
A Christmas Incident at Hinstock Postscript to Action Stations
An introduction to Temporary Prefabricated Buildings A Recent Airfields Tour
AR VOL 8 NO.1 – MAY 1986 (AR41)
Editorial Readers’ Letters Airfield News
Airfield Memorials Book reviews Publications &New Publications
Hampstead Norris RAF Foulsham, Part 2
Memories of a Wimbledon Childhood Hamble Happenings
Waterbeach at War Airfields Abroad
Current Research in Progress Ensbury Park, Bournemouth
Airfield Building Types, No.4 – Stand-by Set Houses RAF Tilstock and Sleap
AAF Numbers Update Mystery Photographs
AR VOL 8 NO.2 – UNDATED (AR42)
Editorial Readers' Letters Airfield News
Memorials Book Reviews
RAF Hurn Seething Tower Restoration
Airfield Building Types, No.5 – Bessonneau Hangar (Type H) West Country Wander
AR VOL 8 NO.3 – SEP 1986 (AR43)
Editorial Group News News
Current Research In Progress
Airfield Artwork Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington
Aircraft Arrester Systems Airfields Abroad
Royal Air Force Y-Service Stations Tangmere Revisited, 17 August, 1986
The Demise of Woodley’s Wind Tunnel Mystery Photographs
Airfield Building Types, No.6 – Development of the War Time Parachute Store
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AR VOL 8 NO.4 – UNDATED (AR44)
Editorial Group News News
Current Research in Progress Book Review Help Line
Letters Memorials
Llandow – The Story of an Airfield Mystery Photos
Airfield Factories in the North West During the Second World War
Airfield Building Types, No.7 – Wartime Control Towers. A New Interpretation?
AR VOL 9 NO.1 – UNDATED (AR45)
Editorial Group News News
Helpline Nostalgia
Decoy Airfield at Houghton Military Glider Pilot Training
RAF Foulsham, Part 3 Lundy – An Aviation Enthusiasts Guide
Machine Gun Mishaps on Airfields of the Eighth Essex Memorials
De Havillands, Salisbury Hall
Airfield Building Types, No.8 – Watch Office With Tower (Fort Type), 1936–38
A Review of Statutory Listing and Aviation Associated Structures
Standardisation of Code Symbols for Navigation Aids, March 1947
Rare Surviving 1913-type Aircraft Hangar with Murket Bros, in Germaine St, Huntingdon
The Aircraft Industry and its Contribution to Solving the Housing Shortage of the Immediate Post War
Period
AR VOL 9 NO.2 – UNDATED (AR46)
Editorial Group News Back Issues
Letters to the Editor Current Research Memorials News
Wattisham – Tail of Two Units! Haddenham, Bucks
Oakington, Cambridgeshire Stoke Orchard, Glos
York / Clifton / Rawcliffe Aviation Societies
Crail Airfield Building Types, No.9 – Link Trainer
RAF Maintenance Units Military Glider Pilot Training, continued
AR VOL 9 NO.3 AND 4 (DOUBLE ISSUE) – AUG 1988 (AR47 /48)

Editorial Current Research Stall
Book Reviews Memorials
AA Landing Grounds Hesketh Park, Southport
Airfield Building Types, No.10 – Torpedo Attack Trainer (TAT)
Airfield Building Types, No.11 – World War One End Opening Hangars
AR VOL 10 NO.1 (MARKED AS NO.2) – OCT 1988 (AR49)
Editorial News & Group News Book Reviews
Letters to the Editor Helpline Memorials

The Clubmobile, Memories from Dick Wickham Anthorn Airfield Plan
Ashbourne Airfield, July 1988 Hard Aircraft Emplacements of WWII
Restoration of the Brooklands Aero Club House The Honington Raider
Artists of the Eighth in East Anglia AML Bombing Teacher (Revised)
Airfield Building Types, 12 – Decontamination Buildings Plan of Ayr Airfield
The Supply of Explosives and Ammunition to the RAF during WWII, Part 1

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AR VOL 10 NO.2 – APR 1989 (AR50)
Editorial Letters to the Editor Memorials
Helpline News Book Reviews
Turret Instructional Building Type A and B revised Arbroath Airfield Plan
RAF Ayr – Liberator Accident, 14 August 1941 An Afternoon Out (Metfield)
Airfield Building Types, No.13 – Hutting, 1935–44
The Supply of Explosives and Ammunition to the RAF during the WWII, Part 2
Twenty Eight Thousand a Year, The Aircraft Storage Units, 1939-45
AR VOL 10 NO.3 – SEP 1989 (AR51)
Editorial Helpline Airfield News
Memorials Book Review
Airfield Plan – Bramcote We Found a Fortress
The Squadron, North Weald Filming of the ‘Memphis Belle’
Hullavington – Showplace for the Expansion Scheme
AR52 (VOL 10 NO.4) – DEC 1989
Editorial Airfield News Memorials
Helpline Book Reviews
The German Military Cemetery in Nazareth, Israel Grimsby Airfield, 1989
Hardwick Remembered Airships at Lenabo
The Supply of Explosives and Ammunition to the RAF, Part 3 Some notes on Ansty Airfield
RNAS Westgate – Flying from Thanet’s First Aerodrome Hangars on the Bomber Bases
Airfield Sites Where Safeguarding has been Relinquished
AR53 (VOL 11 NO.1) – MAY 1990
Editorial Airfield News Book Reviews
Helpline Short Notes Crossword
Membership Questionnaire Results The Memorial at Tempsford
North Killingholme Airfield, 1990 First Flight – Bungay / Flixton
Postscript to ‘Britain’s Military Airfields 1939-45’ Limavady, Co Derry
The Role of N. Ireland’s Airbases in WWII The Old Control Tower
Surplus to Requirements – airfields that weren’t! Fairford – A Base for Bigger Aircraft
Some Notes on the Allocation of Dispersals ‘Varsity’ Tour, 1989
A History of Two Aircraft Hangars at Brooklands, Weybridge RNAS Hangars
AR54 /55 (VOL 11 NO.2 /3) – DEC 1990

Editorial Letters to the Editor Helpline
Crossword Solution Memorials Book Reviews
News and Current Status Miscellaneous News
The 200 Yard Moving Target Range ‘Memphis Belle’, A Review
RAF Binbrook Gunslingers
Saunders-Roe’s Airfield at Chertsey Meads, 1942-44 Belfast Truss Roofs
Cruden Bay, a spot overshadowed by other events The Fate of Wellington W5653
My Memories of Fairford Twinwood Farm – An Update
Radar Stations, South West England, 1940–50s Silent Sentinels of Lincolnshire
Kallang Airport, Singapore The Wendling Mural
Relics at Haddenham (Thame) Relics at Fowlmere
Some Decoy Sites in Norfolk and Suffolk RAF Habbaniya
Walsall Airport Notes RAF East Moor
RAF Harwell EFTS to Industrial Park, Shellingford
Airfields on the Other Side – Luftwaffe Bases in Northern France, Belgium and Holland
Supplementary Material to that in ‘Britain’s Military Airfields 1939-45’ by D J Smith
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AR56 (VOL 11 NO.4) – APR 1991
Editorial Letter to the Editor News and Status
Other News Help Wanted Memorials
Book Reviews
Ghostly Experiences Military Cemetery, North Coates Village
Books on Manchester Airport Moving Target Ranges
Airfields on the Other Side, Part 2 Norwich Airports Post War
Newtownards Airfield, Co. Down Kessingland (Suffolk)
Where Grand Slams Used to Lie, RAF Woodhall Spa Meir Airport, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs
Breighton Airfield RAF Feltwell, Norfolk
Lyneham, Birthplace of Long Range Air Transport Reidy’s Ramblings
RAF Binbrook RAF Elmswell
Chipping Warden, report on a visit to this station 20th July 1944
AR57 – AUG 1991
Editorial Errata News and Status
Other News Letter to the Editor
To All Members of the ARG Replica Control Tower
Grimsby Aerodrome, Municipal Hangar Type ‘B’ An Anglian Tour, 1991
Sywell Aerodrome RAF Railway Systems
Hawkinge (Kent), 1919 Acaster Malbis
Where has my airfield gone (Chipping Ongar) Nick Rambles Too
Moody’s Down Farm, Hants – A Possible Airfield Aviation Research
Abridge Aerodrome, 1932–37 Lost Seaplane Base
National Aircraft Factory No.3 – Aintree, Liverpool RAF Biggin Hill, 1919
London South (Gatwick) Airport – Martello Air Station Terminal, 1936
AR58 – OCT 1991
Editorial Errata Memorials
Letters to the Editor Book Reviews News and Status
Helpline
Ancient Landings Midland / Odessa Tower, Texas
Control Tower at Fearn More on Shellingford
Bottesford Aerodrome Wyton Plan
Upper Heyford PlanResearching ALGs in Kent Thorpe Abbotts Museum
Oldham-Hollinwood, etc (in WWI) Some further notes on RAF Hullavington
Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway Manchester has a new T2
AR59 – APR 1992
Editorial News and Status Other News
Memorials Notes on… Letters to the Editor
Book Reviews Membership Interests Co-ordination
Additional Notes on German Airfields in France Air Publication 4488A – Aircraft Hangars
Hoopers (West London aircraft manufacturers) Morgan & Co (Leighton Buzzard)
RAF Station Wickenby The Story of an Airfield – Long Kesh
The Caravan Hard Standing Swindon Airport
Royal Air Force Stanbridge RAF Debden, 1947
RAF Atcham, 1947 Hucknall, Nottinghamshire
Alexandra Park or Didsbury Airfield A Visit to Marseille-Kaserne
Oldham Aircraft Factory Assembling Sheds at Oldham
The troubled beginnings of RAF Woodhall Spa
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