RAF Bourn

By the time of the last operational sortie on 4 April 1945, a total of 164 aircraft had been lost, either from the squadrons based at Bourn or from others trying, and failing, to land on the field.

97 Squadron's Avro Lancasters were replaced by the Mosquito IXs of 105 Sqn in March 1944.

These Oboe-equipped aircraft were able to identify targets with great precision and then mark them accurately.

These were transported to the airfield from the Sebro factory near Madingley which later continued its work with RAF and United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), Consolidated B-24 Liberators.

[11] Now the Rural Flying Corps uses part of the runway for light aircraft; small industrial developments occupy other areas of the site.

The crew of the Short Stirling Mark I, N3669 'LS-H', of No. 15 Squadron RAF watch as the scoreboard tally on their aircraft is chalked up with their 62nd raid, at Bourn, Cambridgeshire. N3669 went on to complete 67 operations, a record for the Stirling, before she was reduced to an instructional airframe in February 1943.
Bourn Airfield viewed from Broadway in October 2013