Two Cumbria airfields are set to be honoured with memorials this week.
Cark and Millom airfields will have the memorials unveiled this weekend, thanks to the Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust.
The trust aims to acknowledge the unique contribution airfields have made since 1909 and the memorials are erected to provide a permanent reminder.
It has already erected memorials at Brayton Park, Aspatria, Kingstown, Carlisle, Silloth, Great Orton, Hutton-in-the-Forest, White Cross Bay, Windermere and Hill of Oaks, Windermere.
Cark owes its origins to the proposed but never completed airship construction base of Flookburgh during World War One.
What became Cark first opened towards the end of 1941, being originally intended as a fighter airfield, but instead saw use primarily as home to No 1 Staff Pilot Training Unit to instruct pilots on Avro Ansons for service at other types of flying schools.
This unit remained at the airfield until the last day of 1945, apart from four months mid-war when its airfield was undergoing further significant construction.
Other flying activity during this period also notably included anti-aircraft co-operation duties.
Passed to the War Office in June 1946, Cark has continued to see flying since 1972 thanks to Skydive Northwest.
Millom Airfield, often unofficially and locally also referred to as Haverigg, was a major training airfield in January 1941.
After two changes of title, the resident school here became mainly known as No 2 (Observers) Advanced Flying Unit (AFU) from a year later and by 1943 had mostly settled upon using Avro Ansons as flying equipment.
Good work was also performed during World War Two by a RAF Mountain Rescue Unit, while the Fleet Air Arm maintained a squadron detachment as well.
The AFU disbanded in January 1945 and Millom eventually closed in September 1946, though the airfield returned for more RAF use in the early 1950s as an Officer Cadet Training Unit until closing in December 1954.
After some army use, this airfield has since 1967 served as the prison Haverigg and is also being used as a wind farm.
The memorial at Cark Airfield will be unveiled on Saturday, August 30 at 11am and Millom will see its memorial unveiled on Sunday, August 31 at 11am, on the east side of the airfield off North Lane near the entrance on the north side of the prison.
