RAF Bassingbourn

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RAF Bassingbourn USAAF Station 121
Royston, Cambridgeshire in England
1955 Aerial photograph
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Coordinates	52°05′48″N 000°03′11″W / 52.09667°N 0.05306°W / 52.09667; -0.05306
Type	Royal Air Force station * Parent Station
Code	BS[1]
Site information
Owner	Ministry of Defence
Operator	Royal Air Force[2] United States Army Air Forces United States Air Force
Controlled by	RAF Bomber Command (1938-1942; 1951-1969) * No. 3 Group RAF * No. 6 (T) Group RAF * No. 7 (T) Group RAF * No. 92 (OTU) Group RAF Eighth Air Force (1942-1945) RAF Transport Command (1945-1949) United States Air Forces in Europe (1950-1953) British Army (1969 – present)
Site history
Built	1937 (1937)/38
Built by	John Laing & Son Ltd
In use	March 1938 - 2014 (2014)
Battles/wars	European theatre of World War II Cold War
Airfield information
Elevation	24 metres (79 ft)[1] AMSL
Runways Direction Length and surface 07/25 1,825 metres (5,988 ft) Asphalt 13/31 1,310 metres (4,298 ft) Asphalt 17/35 1,270 metres (4,167 ft) Asphalt

Royal Air Force Bassingbourn or more simply RAF Bassingbourn is a former Royal Air Force station located in Cambridgeshire approximately 3 mi (5 km) north of Royston, Hertfordshire and 11 mi (18 km) south west of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.

During the Second World War it served first as an RAF station and then as a bomber airfield of the Eighth Air Force, of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). It remains the home of the Tower Museum Bassingbourn.