Kendrew Barracks
| Kendrew Barracks RAF Cottesmore |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | EGXJ (until 2010) |
| IATA code | OKH (until 2010) |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 141 m (463 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 2 km northeast of Cottesmore |
| Street | 8 km to the 
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| Basic data | |
| opening | March 11, 1938 |
| closure | 2010 (as an airfield) |
| operator | British Army |
| Start-and runway | |
| 04/22 | 2744 m × 46 m asphalt |
The Kendrew Barracks are a barracks of the British Army in the north of the English county of Rutland east Cottesmores . The barracks is located on the grounds of a former military airfield of the Royal Air Force . Aviation use ended in 2010.
history
RAF Cottesmore
After its opening on March 11, 1938, RAF Cottesmore served as a training airfield for five years, most of the time the station was under the control of Bomber Command. The training units here were equipped with Handley Page Hampdens until 1942 and with the Vickers Wellington from 1942 .
Between September 1943 and July 1945 Cottesmore served the United States Army Air Forces as a transport air base .
In the following years, the station continued to serve as a training airfield until 1954, when it became the base for Canberra bombers for one year . Then it was a V-bomber base until 1969 , first Victor and later Vulcan . Between May 1969 and February 1976 the retraining unit for the Canberra was located here.
In 1980 it became home to the Tri-National Tornado Training Establishment (TTTE). The facility where the RAF, the Italian Aeronautica Militare and the German Air Force carried out retraining for the Panavia Tornado was opened in 1981 and existed until 1999.
Then the station was the base of the Joint Force Harrier for a good decade . The RAF Harrier squadrons were previously in Wittering and RAF Laarbruch .
Kendrew Barracks
RAF Cottesmore closed as an RAF station in late March 2012, 74 years after it opened in 1938. The Kendrew Barracks have served as army barracks ever since . First, a was 2,012 infantry - regiment from Dhekelia / Cyprus moved out here, the 2nd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment . A logistics regiment previously belonging to the British Forces Germany (BFG) and stationed in Bielefeld , the 7th RLC regiment (for Royal Logistics Corps) followed in 2013.
The barracks are to be modernized in the coming years for 40 million pounds for the needs of the army and then also house the 18 Army Education Center .
