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The Smith Family de Havilland Mosquito and its link to RAF East Fortune

Vintage Aviation News

Photo by Grant Newman With the outbreak of war in 1939, East Fortune was requisitioned by the Air Ministry for development and by 1941, three concrete runways, three maintenance hangars and off site accommodation had been constructed to house an influx of aircraft and personnel for its wartime role. Note the camouflaged concrete runways.