Talk:Parham Airfield Museum
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RAF Framlingham
[edit]As it stands, this article completely fails to mention the proper name of this former air base. It is RAF Framlingham, although in conditions of wartime secrecy it was also known as USAAF station AAF-153. There is already a separate article headed RAF Framlingham, under which a short section about the museum exists which could be expanded.
It is not a unique situation where the airfield name does not totally reflect its actual location; in fact it was quite common at one point. Framlingham is a larger settlement three miles away, whereas Parham is much closer, and Silverlace Green closer still.
Obviously with the passage of time, and no military personnel on site to preserve the original name, no doubt the locals reverted to calling the site 'the airfield at Parham', and indeed there is a small industrial site on the remains of the airbase, now known as 'Parham Airfield (Industrial site)'. But there is no aviation activity at this location - it's just a name, in the same way that Canary Wharf isn't a facility for handling ships.
There is a real "Parham Airfield", but it is in Sussex, used by the Southdown Gliding Club. Parham Airfield is mentioned in this AAIB crash report from 2010 involving a PA-18 Glider tug
https://www.gov.uk/aaib-reports/piper-pa-18-150-modified-super-cub-g-beoi-7-april-2010
To use the RAF Framlingham control tower, but award the museum a different name is well within their rights, just as they could choose to call it Geraldine, but we should be careful how it is described on Wikipedia.
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