Since my last visit to the former airfield at Langham a few years ago a new memorial has been erected. It is in memory of Richard Younghusband, an RAF pilot who joined the RAF in 1931 and went on to fly with Bristol Aeroplane Company as a test pilot, for Fairey Surveys and Marshalls of Cambridge. On 23rd July 1953 whilst with the Civilian Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit he took off from Langham in a silver MkIX Spitfire but crashed fatally nearby between Cockthorpe and Binham.
This replica Spitfire, donated by the RAF Museum Hendon, has been put up in his memory.
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