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The station was formerly part of the civil parish of Eastcotts, before that was abolished on 1 April 2019.\n\n\n== History ==\n\n\n=== Construction under the Short brothers ===\nThe 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.", "narrative_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "narrative_source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardington_Airfield", "zoning_change": null, "public_subsidy": null, "entitlement_year": null, "planning_notes": null, "wikidata_qid": "Q7275217", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardington_Airfield", "osm_id": null, "verified": "draft", "verified_by": null, "last_verified": null, "last_updated": "2026-10-18", "created": "2026-10-18", "contributor_name": null, "contributor_org": null, "contributor_link": null, "international": 1, "county_fips": null, "opp_score": null, "opp_reasons": null, "for_sale": 0, "distressed": 0, "url": "https://retrofitatlas.org/other/england/cardington-134-squadron-air-training-corps-headquarters-cardington-air/", "events": [{"year": 1953, "date": null, "kind": "retrofit", "detail": "Retrofit: redevelop, reinhabit", "source_id": null}], "sources": [{"id": 8574, "site_id": "n-18c174d401", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardington_Airfield", "title": "Cardington Airfield", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": null, "quote": "134 Sqn of the Air Training Corps", "kind": "wikipedia", "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "retrieved": "2026-10-18"}], "deals": [], "parties": [], "parcels": [], "context": {"assessment": {"what_happened": "Former airport (RAF Cardington) retrofitted in 1953 as a new Air Training Corps headquarters. Original use was military aviation (airship hangars built 1915).", "why": "Strategy: redevelop, reinhabit. New use: civic/education (per record).", "where_it_stands": "Status: built. Located within Cardington Airfield cluster (0km to two nearby developments: Bellway Homes [under construction] and DSA [operating]).", "for_a_planner": ["Adjacent developments share same strategy (redevelop/reinhabit).", "No data on current occupancy or civic/education program details.", "Record lacks retrofit scope (e.g., building modifications)."], "for_a_developer": ["Peer sites show strategy alignment (0km to two active projects).", "No financials, occupancy rates, or tenant details provided.", "Unknown if this site is part of the larger Cardington Airfield cluster development."], "risks_and_unknowns": ["Verified status: draft (record incomplete).", "After_notes state 'new headquarters built' but don't confirm if this replaced the original airport structure or repurposed it.", "No data on community impact or success metrics."], "data_quality": "partial", "one_line": "Retrofit completed 1953: former airport now serves as Air Training Corps headquarters (civic/education use), located amid similar redevelopment cluster in Cardington.", "model": "qwen3-30b-a3b-64k:latest", "machine": "Dell 5820 RTX 3090 (Ollama, qwen3-30b-a3b)", "record_sha1": "d1e4a298e46f"}, "cluster": {"within_10km": [{"id": "n-44c0c2fc39", "name": "Cardington Airfield (Bellway Homes development)", "city": "Cardington", "status": "under construction", "km": 0.0}, {"id": "n-79e252a5ca", "name": "Northern part of Cardington Airfield (DSA)", "city": "Cardington", "status": "operating", "km": 0.0}], "count_10km": 2, "count_25km": 2}, "peers": {"peers": [{"id": "n-eba6eaeb34", "name": "Hatfield Aerodrome", "city": "Hatfield", "state": null, "score": 5.5, "why": ["same strategy: redevelop, reinhabit", "40 km away"]}, {"id": "m-2d93e418c5", "name": "Lifeline Data Center", "city": "Indianapolis", "state": "IN", "score": 4.5, "why": ["same strategy: reinhabit"]}, {"id": "m-09940a89dd", "name": "Furniture Store", "city": "Norcross", "state": "GA", "score": 4.5, "why": ["same strategy: reinhabit"]}, {"id": "n-44c0c2fc39", "name": "Cardington Airfield (Bellway Homes development)", "city": "Cardington", "state": null, "score": 4.5, "why": ["same strategy: redevelop", "0 km away"]}, {"id": "n-79e252a5ca", "name": "Northern part of Cardington Airfield (DSA)", "city": "Cardington", "state": null, "score": 4.5, "why": ["same strategy: reinhabit", "0 km away"]}, {"id": "n-f357a3b8ec", "name": "Cambridge City Airport", "city": "Cambridge", "state": null, "score": 4.5, "why": ["same strategy: redevelop", "40 km away"]}], "method": "size, era, strategy, status, type, state, distance"}}, "elements": [{"slug": "strategy-reinhabit", "name": "Reinhabited", "group_": "strategy", "evidence": "new Squadron headquarters has been built", "origin": "record"}, {"slug": "use-office", "name": "Office", "group_": "use", "evidence": "new Squadron headquarters has been built", "origin": "newtypes-extraction"}, {"slug": "strategy-redevelop", "name": "Redeveloped", "group_": "strategy", "evidence": "new Squadron headquarters has been built", "origin": "record"}, {"slug": "use-education", "name": "Education", "group_": "use", "evidence": "new_use field", "origin": "newtypes-extraction"}, {"slug": "use-civic", "name": "Civic and government", "group_": "use", "evidence": "new_use field", "origin": "newtypes-extraction"}, {"slug": "era-retrofit-1950s", "name": "Retrofit 1950s", "group_": "era", "evidence": "1953", "origin": "newtypes-extraction"}], "details": {}, "photos": [], "provenance": {"status": "newtypes-extraction", "after_notes": "newtypes-extraction", "year_retrofit": "newtypes-extraction"}, "restricted_fields": {"parcels": ["owner_addr", "assessed", "taxable", "tax_amount", "sale_price", "deed_ref"], "deals": ["price", "price_per_acre", "price_per_sqft", "loan_amount", "asking_price"], "how": "free API key: POST /api/v1/keys {\"email\": …}"}}