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Alt Name: Tranent. Opened: 1929. Status in 1944: RN HMS Nightjar. RAF. 13 Grp. Fighter Ops. Current use: Agriculture. Remarks: Closed 1953. Now part farmland/industrial estate. Was this Penston during WW1?
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