RAF Mepal
75 (NZ) Squadron RAF flying Short Stirlings and later Avro Lancasters.[4] It was used towards the end of the Second World War to prepare Avro Lancaster bombers squadrons such as No.[5] From 1957 PGM-17 Thor missiles were based at the airfield in the north east corner.[2][6] The following units were also here at some point:[4] Very little remains of the original site, most of it razed to the ground after the USAF and the Thor missiles left.The site is now the Elean business park and is home to the world's only straw burning power station and a few manufacturing and warehousing operations.