Abbreviation | ABCT [1] |
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Founded | 25 January 2006 |
Founder | Kenneth Peacock Bannerman [1] |
Type | Non-profit organisation |
Registration no. | 1156877 [2] |
Legal status | Charity |
Focus | Former airfields |
Area served | Great Britain |
Services | Supply, installation and dedication of memorial stones |
Website |
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The Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust (ABCT), [1] 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. [2]
They place inscribed memorial stones on or near disused airfields, which have included a memorial at Fambridge, Essex in February 2009, [3] at Windermere in Cumbria in 2011 [1] and at Montrose Air Station Heritage Centre in May 2012. [4] Other memorial locations include Harrowbeer, Hatfield, Lanark, Leavesden, Matlaske, Okehampton, Podington, Swannington, Westcott and Woburn Park.