RAF Sculthorpe

RAF Sculthorpe is a military training facility for the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence, situated about 3 mi (4.8 km) west of Fakenham in Norfolk, England. The airfield has been home to many visiting airmen and support crews of the RAF and United States Air Force. RAF Sculthorpe was built as the second satellite airfield of RAF West Raynham a few miles to the south, the first being RAF Great Massingham. The airfield became inactive at the end of the Cold War. Much of the associated housing and most other buildings have now been sold off by the military. During the mid-1990s the entire technical and domestic site was sold to Roger Byron-Collins’ Welbeck Estate Group by Defence Estates. The airstrip area remains in military hands, officially as an army helicopter training area, and there are exercises about twice a year. Demolition work on the hangars began in March 2009.