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The
airfield was built a secret Relief Landing Ground (RLG) for
RAF Exeter and great trouble was
RN use of the airfield
By the time
the airfield opened at the end of May 1942 the need for a
secret RLG had passed
Commissioned as an RN Air Station
By the end
of 1942 it was clear that the RAF had no use for the
Charlton Horethorne RLG and the airfield was transferred to
the Admiralty; the station commissioned as H.M.S. HERON II
on New Year’s Day 1943.
Returned to RAF Control
In the
spring of 1945 the Admiralty agreed to exchange Charlton
Horethorne for the RAF field at
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