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The Control Tower, Seething, Norfolk
Like many airfields in East Anglia Seething Airfield was constructed as a base for the US Air Force. Liberator bombers of the USAAF 448th Bomb Group flew 262 missions from Seething between 1943 and 1945.
After the Americans moved out much of the land was given back to agriculture and the runways forgotten. Fifty years ago Jimmy Hoseason, Dickie Boulter, Gordon Craik and Bill Wix, set themselves the mission to being affordable flying to the person on the street and set up the Waveney Flying Group. They leased part of the airfield from local farmers and over a four month period cleared the runway of rubble and scrap to create a useable airfield.
Their first aircraft was a Miles Messenger costing £4 per hour to fly. As the club grew in popularity a Tiger Moth and Rallye were acquired with the land being purchased in 1963.
The Control Tower was restored between 1985 and 1987 when it reopened as a museum. It is a memorial to all those who served at Seething Airfield, those who went home and those that did not.
The museum is open on the first Sunday of each month May to October.
The Control Tower, Seething, Norfolk
Like many airfields in East Anglia Seething Airfield was constructed as a base for the US Air Force. Liberator bombers of the USAAF 448th Bomb Group flew 262 missions from Seething between 1943 and 1945.
After the Americans moved out much of the land was given back to agriculture and the runways forgotten. Fifty years ago Jimmy Hoseason, Dickie Boulter, Gordon Craik and Bill Wix, set themselves the mission to being affordable flying to the person on the street and set up the Waveney Flying Group. They leased part of the airfield from local farmers and over a four month period cleared the runway of rubble and scrap to create a useable airfield.
Their first aircraft was a Miles Messenger costing £4 per hour to fly. As the club grew in popularity a Tiger Moth and Rallye were acquired with the land being purchased in 1963.
The Control Tower was restored between 1985 and 1987 when it reopened as a museum. It is a memorial to all those who served at Seething Airfield, those who went home and those that did not.
The museum is open on the first Sunday of each month May to October.