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Local Information for Henlow

Henlow is a village in the district of Mid Bedfordshire in Bedfordshire.

RAF Henlow is a Royal Air Force station near Luton.

It houses the Centre of Aviation Medicine, the RAF Signals museum and the 616 Volunteer Gliding School.

Henlow was chosen as a military aircraft repair depot in 1917. The Officers Engineering School moved there in 1927. During World War II Henlow was used as a repair base. Hawker Hurricane fighters were dismantled there to be shipped to Malta. After the war Henlow became the RAF Signals Engineering Establishment, but was reduced to a Radio Engineering Unit in 1980. In 1983 the Land Registry took over part of the site.

Administratively RAF Henlow is now part of a combined base, RAF Brampton Wyton Henlow.

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