INFORMATION:

B1 repair hangar.

History : B1 hangars were used as heavy repair of bombers using civilian workers on RAF bomber stations. Chilbolton started life as a grass bomber station and was never used as such and then as fighter station, by 1943 it was rebuild with three hard runways, two T2 hangars, one B1 hangar and forty eight spectacle dispersals with a bomb store making it a full 'A' class bomber station.