The Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust (ABCT),
founded 2006, is a non-profit organisation that works to preserve and protect
airfields in Great Britain, as well as educating people about their history. The Trust is a registered charity.
They place inscribed
memorial stones on or near disused airfields, which have included a memorial at
Fambridge, Essex in February 2009,
at
Windermere
Windermere (historically Winder Mere) is a ribbon lake in Cumbria, England, and part of the Lake District. It is the largest lake in England by length, area, and volume, but considerably smaller than the List of lakes and lochs of the United Ki ...
in Cumbria in 2011
[ and at ]Montrose Air Station Heritage Centre
The Montrose Air Station Museum is located to the north of Montrose, Angus, Montrose, Angus, Scotland. Montrose has the distinction of having the first operational military airfield in Great Britain and the Heritage Centre is located on the f ...
in May 2012.Lanark
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, Leavesden, Matlaske, Okehampton
Okehampton ( ) is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in West Devon in the English county of Devon. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 7,313, which was slightly more than the 7,104 recorded at the 2011 census. Th ...
, Podington
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, Swannington, Westcott and Woburn Park.
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Charities based in Glasgow
Conservation in the United Kingdom
Aviation history of the United Kingdom
Heritage organisations in the United Kingdom
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