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The site started life as a private venture when aircraft manufacturing company Short Brothers bought land there to build airships for the Admiralty.It constructed a 700-foot-long (210 m) Airship hangar (the No. 1 Shed) in 1915 to enable it to build two rigid airships, the R-31 and the R-32.
The reconstructed Airship Hangar at Farnborough. Today, only the two hangars of the former Royal Airship Works in Cardington, Bedfordshire, where the R101 was built, remain. The No.1 Cardington hangar is original, but extended; the No.2 hangar was relocated to Cardington from Pulham in 1928. [2]
Construction of a Royal Naval Airship Station, RNAS Cramlington, started in 1918 [35] at Nelson Village, about half a mile (0.8 km) to the east of the existing aerodrome. It was planned that four Submarine Scout Twin (SST) airships would be based here, but construction of the large airship shed to house them was not finished until 1919. However ...
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They constructed a 700-foot-long (210 m) airship hangar (the No. 1 Shed) in 1915 to enable them to build two rigid airships, the R-31 and the R-32. Some 800 people worked there in 1917, most of them travelled daily from Bedford. [citation needed] Shorts also built a housing estate, opposite the site, which they named Shortstown.
RNAS Kingsnorth was commissioned in April 1914 under the control of the Admiralty, first through the Naval Airship Branch, then through the Royal Naval Air Service when the Royal Navy reformed its air branch in July 1914. [7] The RNAS took over the base's two huge airship sheds and its development and training functions.