Beauvais/Nivillers airfield
 

Hello everyone!

This airfield in France was the second part of a "complex" of which the other part was Beauvais Tillé.
In opposition to Tillé, Nivillers never got hard-surfaced runways during the german occupation, but was connected to Tillé by a 2.5 km taxiway which still exists nowadays.

My question is: when did Nivillers become operational? Was it already in use during the battle of Britain?
At this time Tillé was only a grass field and many bomber types were using Beauvais (He-111, Do-17Z, Ju-87 for sure), so the Germans may have realized early the advantage in having a second airfield nearby to relax Tillé's usage...
If someone has insights, I would appreciate it...

JVM

Re: Beauvais/Nivillers airfield
 

Mattiello pag. 221

Flugplatz Beauvais-Nivillers(F)
05.40-06.42, in Einsatz mit Tarn-Nr. 500
26.7.42, neue Tarn-Nr. 251
10.43, noch in Einsatz

Mattiello, pag. 64
Fl.Pl.Kdo. 9/VI
1940, in Nivellers(F)
Unterstellt Koflug 19/XI Beauvais

Jaap

Re: Beauvais/Nivillers airfield
 

Thanks a lot, Jaap! This is the kind of confirmation I was looking for...