Crosby-on-Eden - RAF Crosby-on-Eden

RAF Crosby-on-Eden

RAF Crosby-on-Eden was a World War II airfield originally home to No.59 Operational Training Unit providing day training for Hawker Hurricane pilots, which was replaced by OTU17 Group Coastal Command in August 1942 for training long-range fighter crews on Bristol Beaufort and Bristol Beaufighter conversion squadrons, as well as air firing and night flying. In August 1944 the station came under the command of 109 OTU, a transport command of Douglas Dakotas. The station was renamed 1383 TCU 1/8/45.

After World War II British European Airways commenced flights to Ronaldsway and Belfast. However, the RAF station had no post war use or need and was closed in 1947, but reopened in 1960 as Carlisle Airport. Since 2006 the airport has been known officially as Carlisle Lake District Airport, and since 30 May 2009 the airport lease has been owned by the Stobart Group.