Abandoned and little-known airfields
Interesting to find out if there is a UK equivalent. We have a <i>lot</i> of historic airfields, partly as a legacy of the many that were constructed in WW2. Where these have been redeveloped for housing, a clue to the old purpose is often that many of new streets are named for old aircraft.<p>I used to work at a Plessey [0] site that was built on an old airfield near Christchurch UK, along with a housing state. Street names include Brabazon, Halifax, De Havilland, The Runway, Sunderland, Catalina and Comet. Amusingly, when Siemens acquired Plessey [1], a team of senior Germans visited the site. They presented the management with a book of WW2 Luftwaffe photo-reconnaissance imagery (!) on which the old airfield was featured, saying IIRC "We didn't get you then, but we've got you now!".<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessey" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessey</a><p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessey#GEC_Siemens_takeover" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessey#GEC_Siemens_takeover</a>