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6 unusual facts about Cranwell


Avro Tutor

(The real K3241 built in 1933, served RAF College Cranwell, until transferred to the CFA in 1936.)

Bobby Oxspring

Bobby Oxspring died on 8 August 1989, and was buried at Cranwell Parish church, Lincolnshire.

George Unwin

At the end of 1940 he was rested and sent as an instructor to 2 CFS, Cranwell.

Maurice Brown

Following the Battle of Britain, Brown was a flying instructor at No. 61 OTU Operational Training Unit and Cranwell Flying Training School.

Mukhtar Ahmad Dogar

Dogar gained a commission in Royal Air Force, and was accepted into the Royal Air Force Academy in Cranwell.

SS-class blimp

At the same time a number of new air stations were set up as well as a training station at Cranwell.


Kay McMahon

In 2002, McMahon and business partner, Eloise Trainor, Founder of the LPGA Futures Tour (now the Symetra Tour), rebranded into eduKaytion Golf, an exclusive golf education company located at the Cranwell Resort, Spa and Golf Club in Lenox, Massachusetts, since January 2012.

Lucy Cranwell

In April 1929, a few weeks after graduating, the director of the Auckland Museum, Dr Gilbert Edward Archey, offered Cranwell the inaugural Botany Curator position.


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