Keep North Weald Flying

Keep North Weald Flying North Weald Airfield Users Group is a voluntary organisation established to raise awareness of the airfield and to campaign for its long term future

This new page has been set up in conjunction with www.facebook.com/savenorthwealdairfield to make it easier for non-facebook subscribers to follow developments in the campaign to "Keep North Weald Flying". Content will generally mirror that of the original FB site. Please follow, like and share with your friends. For historical information on the campaign and recent developments, please a

lso visit our website at www.northwealdairfield.org and our twitter account www.twitter.com/flynorthweald. The Aerodrome was established in the summer of 1916 as a Royal Flying Corp aerodrome North Weald was a frontline Sector Station for 11 Group during the Battle of Britain before hosting jets from the late Forties until the mid Sixties. It remained MOD property until being sold to Epping Forest District Council in the early Eighties. In recent years the airfield has been targeted from many angles as a suitable location for large scale residential development, which, if realised, could ultimately lead to the closure and loss of this important and popular aviation and leisure facility and historic site for future generations

20/03/2026

North Weald, 1942.

Inside the dispersal hut of No. 331 Squadron RAF, where sorties were briefed, gear was checked, and the waiting happened.

This photograph is believed to show several well-known Norwegian pilots gathered on the left side of the room, figures associated with 331 Squadron in this period — including men such as Tarald Weisteen, Stein Sem, and Rolf Arne Berg. If that identification is correct, the image must date from before Sem was killed in action.

Moments like this rarely look dramatic. Yet for several of the men in this room, the future was already painfully short.

15/09/2025

Battle of Britain Day
15th September

Tomorrow!!!
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Tomorrow!!!

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The Battle of Britain movie from 1969 is currently on BBC iPlayer. It features many scenes filmed at North Weald (those ...
31/07/2025

The Battle of Britain movie from 1969 is currently on BBC iPlayer. It features many scenes filmed at North Weald (those with Robert Shaw & Ian McShane, once their characters return to England from France). Always a great watch. Battle of Britain: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002fxy9 via

1940. Britain fears an impending German invasion. Goering is confident his Luftwaffe will pave the way for that. It falls to brave squadrons of fighter pilots to fend off the attack from the air.

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