History .
Opened in August 1942 as a satalite airfield for Bicester based 13 OTU Blenheims .
January 1943 brought recently formed [24th December 1943 at Bicester] 307 FTU [Ferry Training Unit] Whitleys and Wellingtons but by the end of March they had converted to Boston IIIs [the first (AL697) arrived on the 20th] .
307 FTU left in October 43 for Melton Mowbray . 13 OTU started to recieve Mosquitos and Mitchells in January 44 and the remaining Blenheims were withdrawn .
In june 45 , 6 x Tempest IIs arrived at Finmere to replace Bicesters Hurricanes in the Fighter affiliation role of 13 OTU .
13 OTU left Finmere at the end of July 45 taking 44 x Mosquitos , 6 x Ansons , 5 x Mitchells and the Tempests to Middleton St George and Finmere closed .
Site Plan [numbers ref to the pic locations] .
1 + 2 , Active Runway and T2 Hangar .
3 , Guardroom for the Instructional and Community sites ?
4 , not sure what this is ?
5 , WAAF Community Site [or so the plan says] .
6 , Instructional Site .
7 , South east of the airfield .
8 , Ghost of a dispersal and peri track .
9 , Bomb fusing area and Taxiway junction .
10 , Ghost of the main NE/SW runway .
11 , Half a dispersal is left .
12 , full width peri track remains in the Market [private property] area .
13 , Watch Office [private property] and secondary [NW/SE] runway .
14 , B1 Hangar and crash site of EF-111A Raven 66-056 'Babyjam' .
