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Remains of a World War II military airfield. The air station was commissioned as HMS Peewit on 1st May 1943, accommodation having been increased during construction to house up to four squadrons and ease overcrowding at Arbroath. The station's last inhabitant was an Operational Flying School recorded here until July 1946. East Haven has now been cleared of almost all its buildings. Amongst the handful remaining, are three 'S' hangars in the southeast corner, now inherited by the farms on whose land they had been built. There is a lot of Square Mesh Track (SMT) in use as fencing in the vicinity, probably once employed for dispersal areas, as the field was built with four tarmac runways. Sections of the runways are still in reasonable condition, and parachute dropping was regularly done from here. One of the runways bears traces of white lines across it, marking the limits of a dummy deck. The station remained in use to accommodate apprentices from Arbroath, being finally closed in 1949.
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Historic Environment Records (HER) 
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NO53NE0059 - EAST HAVEN AIRFIELD