Thurleigh Airfield Bedford

[@davidgalea6113]

The last resting place for many beautiful roadworthy and running classics that got stripped for parts to be sold under the table and then scrapped..the list of rare and valuable cars that the scrappage scheme destroyed is unbelievable.

[@flyurway]

My Dad was a B-17 navigator, flew 24 missions out of there.

[@Ianysm]

Andork Kuomo wow I bet it's changed a bit since then

[@automap3899]

I bet he has some interesting stories and wouldn't recognize it now! I bet when he was taking off he wouldn't imagine that years later it would be a giant car park!

[@edwilko8819]

Its been that way for decades ny dads first omega had been sat fir 2 years before his company bought it. Looked at tge production date vin sticker and it was 2 years 2 months old

[@kenrobson5937]

This should have been used as the third london airport what a complete waste this is .

[@charlieloxley8495]

I live in Thurleigh this isn’t a waist they sell the cars eventually

[@kenrobson5937]

@@charlieloxley8495 thats not the point , it should be a modern airport creating thousands of jobs there is a need for one .

[@charlieloxley8495]

Actually it was a airport for world war 2 and now it is just a storage place.

[@charlieloxley8495]

Ye but the people who live in Thurleigh wouldn’t like it because there would just be planes everywhere and by the way this is in the country side

[@kenrobson5937]

@@charlieloxley8495 correct it was , and it should be a third london airport