List of former Royal Air Force stations
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They are listed under any former county or country name which was appropriate for the duration of operation.
During 1991, the RAF had several Military Emergency Diversion Aerodrome (MEDA) airfields: RAF Kinloss, Leeming, Valley, Waddington, Wattisham & Lyneham ended their role from 1 March 1991, leaving Brize Norton, Manston, Leuchars and St Mawgan with the role.[1]
British Isles
[edit]Station | Pundit Code[2]/ USAAF station code |
Country | County | Year opened | Year closed | Notes |
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RAF Abbots Bromley | England | Staffordshire | 1940 | 1949 | Returned to agricultural use, small number of buildings remain. | |
RAF Abbots Ripton | England | Huntingdonshire | 1938 | 1942 | Became part of RAF Alconbury. | |
RAF Abbotsinch | Scotland | Renfrewshire | 1933 | 1943 | Passed to Royal Navy / Fleet Air Arm in 1943, now Glasgow International Airport | |
RAF Aberporth | Wales | Ceredigion | 1941 | 1984 | Now West Wales Airport | |
RAF Abingdon | AB | England | Oxfordshire[a] | 1932 | 1992 | Transferred to the British Army and became Dalton Barracks. Airfield continued to be used for RAF helicopter training and gliding. |
RAF Acaster Malbis | AM | England | West Riding of Yorkshire | 1942 | 1957 | Returned to agricultural use, with elements as an industrial estate |
RAF Acklington | AI | England | Northumberland | 1916 | 1975 | Situated just south of a World War I landing ground known as Southfields. Now Her Majesty's Prison Northumberland (formerly Acklington and Castington) |
RAF Akeman Street | England | Oxfordshire | 1940 | 1947 | Returned to agricultural use | |
RAF Aldeburgh | England | Suffolk | 1918 | 1919 | ||
RAF Aldergrove | JV | Northern Ireland | County Antrim | 1918 | 2009 | Became Aldergrove Flying Station |
RAF Aldermaston | AM | England | Berkshire | 1942 | 1950 | Became part of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE), now Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) |
RAF All Hallows | England | Kent | 1916 | 1935 | WWI Class 3 landing ground | |
RAF Alness | YS | Scotland | Ross and Cromarty | 1920 | 1986 | Named RAF Invergordon until 1943. Flying boat station, subsequently RAF Marine Branch No. 1100 MCU until disbandment. |
RAF Anderby Creek | England | Lincolnshire | c.1939 | c.1945 | Second World War battle training school of the RAF Regiment; at or near Anderby Creek; no visible remains on satellite images | |
RAF Andrews Field | GZ | England | Essex | 1943 | 1948 | Originally known as RAF Great Saling |
RAF Andover | AV | England | Hampshire | 1917 | 1976 | Now Marlborough Lines home to the HQ of the British Army |
RAF Andreas | VS | Isle of Man | 1941 | 1947 | Remains in light use as a civilian airfield | |
RAF Angle | AE | Wales | Pembrokeshire | 1941 | 1950 | Returned to agricultural use |
RAF Annan | AG | Scotland | Dumfriesshire | 1942 | 1945 | Since 1955 the site of Chapelcross nuclear power station, which is being decommissioned |
RAF Ansty | England | Warwickshire | 1936 | 1953 | Occupied by Rolls-Royce as an engine overhaul and repair facility | |
RAF Anwick | England | Lincolnshire | 1916 | 1918 | Returned to agricultural use | |
RAF Appledram | AO (day) | England | Sussex | 1943 | 1944 | Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) |
RAF Ascot | England | Berkshire | 1916 | 1919 | ||
RAF Ashbourne | AS | England | Derbyshire | 1942 | 1954 | In various uses, including by JCB as a test and demonstration area |
RAF Ash | England | Kent | 1986 | 1995 | Site sold for civilian use, now a data centre. | |
RAF Ashford | England | Kent | 1943 | 1944 | ALG, near Egerton | |
RAF Aston Down | AD | England | Gloucestershire | 1938 | 1976 | In use as a civilian gliding airfield |
RAF Atcham | AP | England | Shropshire | 1941 | 1946 | |
RAF Atherstone | England | Warwickshire | 1941 | 1942 | Renamed RAF Stratford. | |
RAF Attlebridge | AT | England | Norfolk | 1941 | 1956 | |
RAF Atwick | England | East Riding of Yorkshire | July 1915 | 1919 | Hornsea Mere | |
RAF Ayr I | Scotland | Ayrshire | 1917 | 1919 | Originally and now Ayr Racecourse | |
RAF Ayr II | AR | Scotland | Ayrshire | 1941 | 1957 | Also known as RAF Heathfield. Passed to Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm 1944-46 as HMS Wagtail. Reopened 1951 as storage annexe to RAF Prestwick. |
RAF Babbacombe | England | Devon | 1940 | 1945 | No. 1 Aircrew Receiving Centre, originally and now Babbacombe Theatre. | |
RAF Babdown Farm | BF | England | Gloucestershire | 1940 | 1948 | (Relief Landing Ground – RLG) |
RAF Bacton | England | Norfolk | 1915 | 1919 | First World War landing ground | |
RAF Baginton | NG | England | Warwickshire | 1939 | 1943 | Originally and now Coventry Airport |
RAF Balado Bridge | Scotland | Kinross-shire | 1942 | 1944 | Transferred to War Department 1944. Civil airfield 1946–1957. | |
RAF Balderton | BN | England | Nottinghamshire | 1941 | 1954 | |
RAF Baldonnel | Republic of Ireland | Dublin | 1917 | 1965 | now Casement Aerodrome | |
RAF Ballyhalbert | YB | Northern Ireland | County Down | 1941 | 1947 | Briefly transferred to Royal Navy during 1945 |
RAF Ballykelly | IY | Northern Ireland | County Londonderry | 1941 | 1971 | Site transferred to Army as Shackleton Barracks |
RAF Ballywalter | Northern Ireland | County Down | 1941 | 1945 | No. 16 Satellite Landing Ground | |
RAF Bampton Castle | England | Oxfordshire | 1939 | 2003 | established by Royal Signals Regiment, transferred to RAF Signals Command in 1965 | |
RAF Banff | AF | Scotland | Banffshire | 1943 | 1946 | |
RAF Bardney | BA | England | Lincolnshire | 1943 | 1963 | Built as a satellite to RAF Waddington |
RAF Barkway | England | Hertfordshire | 1942 | 2011 | Communications station | |
RAF Barnwood | England | Gloucestershire | RAF Record Office | |||
RAF Barton Bendish | England | Norfolk | 1939 | 1942 | Second World War Landing Ground, as a satellite station to RAF Marham | |
RAF Barton Hall | England | Lancashire | 1940 | 1975 | During WWII: Operations Centre of No. 9 Group RAF. Post-war: Preston Air Traffic Control Centre. | |
RAF Bassingbourn | BS | England | Cambridgeshire | 1938 | 1969 | now Bassingbourn Barracks |
RAF Bawdsey | England | Suffolk | 1936 | 1991 | Converted into a boarding school which operated between 1994 and 2016 and later a holiday park. Transmitter block now a radar museum. | |
RAF Bawtry | England | South Yorkshire | 1941 | 1986 | No. 1 Group Bomber Command H.Q. (during WWII), RAF Strike Command H.Q. & eventually RAF Meteorological Service H.Q. (post-war) | |
RAF Beaulieu | BL/BQ[3] | England | Hampshire | 1915 | 1947 | Now a recreational area within the New Forrest. |
RAF Beccles | BE | England | Suffolk | 1943 | 1945 | |
RAF Bekesbourne | England | Kent | 1916 | 1919
1940 |
Became Bekesbourne Aerodrome post-WWI, closed in July 1939. Used during May and June 1940 by No 2 and No 13 Squadrons. | |
RAF Belfast | Belfast | Northern Ireland | 1941 | 1943 | Acquired as Sydenham Airport, transferred to RN in 1943 as HMS Gadwall; reverted from RNAS back to RAF 1973 and closed in 1978. | |
RAF Bellasize | England | East Riding of Yorkshire | 1916 | 1945 | Used between 1916 and 1919, reactivated for flying training between 1939, and 1945 | |
RAF Belton Park | England | Lincolnshire | 1942 | 1946 | Birthplace and original headquarters / training facility of the Royal Air Force Regiment | |
RAF Bembridge | England | Isle of Wight | 1915 | 1920 | Seaplane base, also known as RNAS Bembridge Harbour | |
RAF Benbecula | BB | Scotland | Inverness-shire | 1941 | 1947 | Airfield now Benbecula Airport. Nearby radar station now RRH Benbecula, an unmanned Remote Radar Head controlled by RAF Boulmer. |
RAF Bentley Priory | England | Middlesex | 1926 | 2008 | Converted to residential use. WW2 bunker, modernised in the 1980s, was demolished and filled in, as regarded not worth saving. Former Officers' Mess now the Bentley Priory Museum.[4] | |
RAF Bentwaters | BY | England | Suffolk | 1944 | 1993 | Former major USAF base. Site sold and became a business park and TV/film location known as Bentwaters Parks with airfield infrastructure and buildings remaining. Bentwaters Cold War Museum opened in 2007.[5] Former USAF housing demolished and a new housing estate created. |
RAF Berrow | England | Worcestershire | 1941 | 1945 | No. 5 SLG also known as Pendock Moor | |
RAF Bibury | BI | England | Gloucestershire | 1940 | 1945 | built as a relief landing ground for RAF South Cerney |
RAF Bicester | BC | England | Oxfordshire | 1917 | 1976 | now Bicester Airfield and home to Bicester Heritage |
RAF Biggin Hill | England | Kent | 1917 | 1992 | Formerly the Officer and Aircrew Selection Centre (OASC) before moving to RAF Cranwell in the early 1990s, now Biggin Hill Airport. | |
RAF Binbrook | BK | England | Lincolnshire | 1940 | 1992 | Site sold, technical buildings and hangars in use as an industrial park, domestic site established as Brookenby village. |
RAF Binsoe | England | North Yorkshire | 1916 | 1919 | Used as a relief landing ground for RAF Ripon | |
RAF Birch | BR | England | Essex | 1942 | 1945 | |
RAF Bircham Newton | England | Norfolk | 1918 | 1966 | Technical site now the Construction Industry Training Board School | |
RAF Bircotes | BH | England | South Yorkshire | 1941 | 1948 | Satellite airfield for RAF Finningley. |
RAF Bishopbriggs | Scotland | Dunbartonshire | 1939 | 1966 | Originally a barrage balloon depot, later used for other non-flying purposes. Site now HM Prison Low Moss | |
RAF Bishops Court | IC | Northern Ireland | County Down | 1943 | 1990 | Originally an airfield but latterly a radar site. |
RAF Bisterne | BS | England | Hampshire | 1943 | 1945 | USAAF ALG |
RAF Bitteswell | BT | England | Leicestershire | 1940 | 1947 | |
RAF Blaenannerch | Wales | Ceredigion | 1939 | 1941 | Renamed RAF Aberporth, now West Wales Airport | |
RAF Black Isle | Scotland | Ross and Cromarty | 1941 | 1945 | No. 42 Satellite Landing Ground | |
RAF Blackbushe | England | Hampshire | 1944 | 1960 | Now Blackbushe Airport | |
RAF Blackpool | England | Lancashire | 1940 | 1945 | HQ was located at the Lansdowne Hotel on the North Shore | |
RAF Blakehill Farm | XF | England | Wiltshire | 1944 | 1952 | Also known as RAF Cricklade |
RAF Blakelaw | England | Northumberland | 1940 | 1943 | HQ No. 13 Group RAF also known as RAF Newcastle | |
RAF Blankney Hall | England | Lincolnshire | 1940 | 1946 | RAF Digby Sector operations room. Now demolished & site of a golf club. | |
RAF Blyton | AL | England | Lincolnshire | 1942 | 1954 | Now known the site of Blyton Park Driving Centre and is used for motorsport and track days. |
RAF Boa Island | Northern Ireland | County Fermanagh | 1944 | 1945 | Satellite to RAF Killadeas flying boat station. Also known as Rock Bay. | |
RAF Bobbington | England | Staffordshire | 1941 | 1956 | Renamed RAF Halfpenny Green in 1943, now Wolverhampton Airport | |
RAF Boddington | England | Gloucestershire | 1940 | 2007 | Transferred to Defence Communication Services Agency (now Information Systems & Services) as ISS Boddington | |
RAF Bodney | BO | England | Norfolk | 1940 | 1945 | USAAF from 1943 |
RAF Bodorgan | Wales | Anglesey | 1940 | 1945 | No. 15 SLG, originally called Aberffraw until 15 May 1941 | |
RAF Bognor | England | Sussex | 1943 | 1944 | ALG | |
RAF Bolt Head | OH | England | Devon | 1941 | 1945 | Second World War satellite airfield to RAF Exeter |
RAF Booker | England | Buckinghamshire | 1939 | 1951 | near (High Wycombe), now Wycombe Air Park | |
RAF Boreham | JM | England | Essex | 1944 | 1945 | |
RAF Boscombe Down | BD | England | Wiltshire | 1917 | 2001 | Airfield retained by the Ministry of Defence but operated by private contractor QinetiQ as MOD Boscombe Down. Home to the Aircraft Test and Evaluation Centre and Empire Test Pilots School (ETPS). |
RAF Bottesford | AQ | England | Leicestershire | 1941 | 1945 | |
RAF Bottisham | IM | England | Cambridgeshire | 1940 | 1946 | Largely now agricultural use and divided North/South by the A14. The North East corner of the airfield is now the Bottisham Airfield Museum. |
RAF Boulmer | England | Northumberland | 1940 | RAF Boulmer remains open, but the present radar control station is at a different location from the wartime airfield (which closed in the late 1960s). During the 1970s the former airfield communal site was redeveloped as an air-sea rescue helicopter base, which closed in 2015. | ||
RAF Bourn | AU | England | Cambridgeshire | 1941 | 1948 | Became a recreational airfield, but is now planned to be developed into a village of 3500 homes. |
RAF Bovingdon | BV | England | Hertfordshire | 1942 | 1972 | Now site of Bovingdon Radar, a major air navigation facility for London Heathrow Airport and the surrounding airspace. |
RAF Bowmore | Scotland | Argyllshire | 1940 | 1945 | Flying boat base, satellite to RAF Oban | |
RAF Boxted | BX | England | Essex | 1943 | 1947 | A small museum is located on side of airfield.[6] |
RAF Bracebridge Heath | England | Lincolnshire | 1916 | 1920 | Adjacent to RAF Waddington. Site used to for the recovery and restoration damaged Lancaster bomber parts for reuse in WWII & construction site of Avro 707 prototype aircraft. | |
RAF Brackla | Scotland | Nairnshire | 1941 | 1947 | ||
RAF Staff College Bracknell | England | Berkshire | 1945 | 1997 | Joint Services Command and Staff College established at the site, which later moved to MOD Shrivenham. The site was subsequently sold for redevelopment in 2004. | |
RAF Bradwell Bay | England | Essex | 1941 | 1945 | ||
RAF Bramcote | RT | England | Warwickshire | 1940 | 1946 | Transferred to the Royal Navy in 1947 and became HMS Gamecock and in 1959 was transferred to the Army as Gamecock Barracks |
RAF Brampton | England | Huntingdonshire | 1942 | 2012 | Transferred to Joint Forces Command and became Brampton Camp RAF Wyton. Site subsequently sold for redevelopment and station buildings demolished. | |
RAF Brampton Wyton Henlow | England | Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire | 2001 | 2012 | Tri-base area (also RAF Stanbridge not formally noted in name) | |
RAF Bratton | England | Shropshire | 1940 | 1945 | Relief landing ground of RAF Shawbury & Home of RAF Training Command, 25 Group Advanced Flying Unit | |
RAF Brawdy | BW | Wales | Pembrokeshire | 1944 | 1992 | Transferred to the British Army in 1995 and became Cawdor Barracks. |
RAF Breighton | AC | England | Yorkshire | 1942 | 1946 | |
RAF Brenzett | England | Kent | 1943 | 1944 | ALG, also known as Ivychurch | |
RAF Bridgnorth | England | Shropshire | 1940 | Former recruit training establishment | ||
RAF Bridlington | England | East Riding of Yorkshire | 1929 | 1980 | Air gunnery and wireless operator courses held during the Second World War; No. 1104 MCU operated between 1929 and 1980[7] | |
RAF Brizlee Wood | England | Northumberland | 1968 | 1969 | NATO forward Scatter Unit. transferred to the Royal Signals Regiment in 1969. | |
RAF Broadwell | JR | England | Oxfordshire | 1943 | 1947 | |
RAF Brough | England | East Riding of Yorkshire | ||||
RAF Bruntingthorpe | BP | England | Leicestershire | 1942 | 1962 | now Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome and Proving Ground |
RAF Brunton | BN | England | Northumberland | 1942 | 1945 | Built as satellite to RAF Milfield. Post-war use as GA field and parachute club base ceased by 2004. Disused apart from a small air defence radar outstation of RAF Boulmer.[8] |
RAF Buckminster | England | Lincolnshire | 1916 | 1919 | First World War Royal Flying Corps base | |
RAF Bungay | JO | England | Suffolk | 1942 | 1955 | Locally known as RAF Flixton. Allocated to USAAF & designated Station 125 during the Second World War. Following the war the station was transferred to the Royal Navy in 1945 to become HMS Europa, before control was returned to the RAF in 1946. |
RAF Burgh Castle | England | Norfolk | 1915 | 1919 | First World War Landing Ground (Royal Naval Air Service) | |
RAF Burnaston | England | Derbyshire | 1939 | 1953 | Previously and later Derby Airport. Now a Toyota car plant. | |
RAF Burtonwood | England | Cheshire | 1940 | 1994 | Buildings demolished and site sold for redevelopment, including Omega Business Park and junction 8 of the M62 motorway. | |
RAF Burn | AZ | England | Yorkshire | 1942 | 1945 | |
RAF Bury St Edmunds | BU | England | Suffolk | 1942 | 1948 | Also designated to USAAF Station 468 at some point in WWII |
RAF Butley | England | Suffolk | 1942 | 1943 | Former name for RAF Bentwaters | |
RAF Buttergask | Scotland | Perthshire | 1941 | 1945 | Relief landing ground for RAF Perth | |
RAF Bylaugh Hall | England | Norfolk | 1943 | 1945 | No. 100 (Bomber Support) Group H.Q. | |
RAF Caerau | Wales | Cardiff | 1939 | 1944 | HQ No. 14 Balloon Unit (and HQ Cardiff Group Royal Observer Corps from 1953 to 1968). Name changed to RAF Llandaff in 1946. | |
RAF Caerwent | Wales | Monmouthshire | 1967 | 1993 | Transferred to the Defence Training Estate and became the Caerwent Training Area, predominately used by the British Army. | |
RAF Caistor | England | Lincolnshire | 1940 | 1963 | Now returned to agricultural use | |
RAF Calshot | KT | England | Hampshire | 1913 | 1961 | Was No. 238 Maintenance Unit (238MU). Maintained Air Sea Rescue launches. RAF Mount Batten took over this work upon closure. |
RAF Calveley | KY | England | Cheshire | 1942 | 1946 | |
RAF Cambridge | England | Cambridgeshire | 1938 | 1954 | RAF use of Marshalls airfield at Teversham, now Cambridge Airport | |
RAF Cammeringham | England | Lincolnshire | 1942 | 1945 | (previously RAF Ingham) | |
RAF Cardington | England | Bedfordshire | 1915 | 2000 | Sold for residential redevelopment and various private uses. Former airship sheds remain and are designated as listed buildings. Part of the site is retained by the Ministry of Defence and leased to the Met Office. | |
RAF Carew Cheriton | Wales | Pembrokeshire | 1939 | 1945 | ||
RAF Cark | KA | England | Lancashire | 1941 | 1945 | |
RAF Carnaby | KQ | England | Yorkshire | 1944 | 1963 | |
RAF Castle Archdale | QA | Northern Ireland | County Fermanagh | 1941 | 1958 | Flying boat station. Briefly known as RAF Loch Erne between 1941 – 1943. |
RAF Castle Bromwich | England | Warwickshire | 1915 | 1958 | was the Castle Bromwich Aerodrome until 1958 | |
RAF Castle Camps | CC | England | Cambridgeshire | 1940 | 1946 | |
RAF Castle Combe | England | Wiltshire | 1941 | 1948 | Second World War Practice Landing Ground for RAF Hullavington. Now Castle Combe Circuit. | |
RAF Castle Donington | CD | England | Leicestershire | 1943 | 1946 | Satellite airfield to RAF Wymeswold. Now East Midlands Airport. |
RAF Castle Kennedy | QK | Scotland | Wigtownshire | 1941 | 1945 | Since 2004, Castle Kennedy has been made available for use General Aviation and commercial use within the applicable regulations. The airfield is unlicensed, and used at the pilots own risk and discretion. The airfield is strictly PPR. |
RAF Castletown | AX | Scotland | Caithness | 1940 | 1945 | |
RAF Catfirth | Scotland | Shetland | 1917 | 1919 | ||
RAF Catfoss | CA | England | Yorkshire | 1932 | 1963 | |
RAF Catterick | AK | England | Yorkshire | 1914 | 1994 | Transferred to the British Army and became Marne Barracks. |
RAF Cattewater | England | Devon | 1918 | 1923 | Formally Royal Naval Air Station Cattewate (1913–18). Re-opened in 1928 as RAF Mount Batten. | |
RAF Caxton Gibbet | England | Cambridgeshire | 1940 | 1944 | RLG | |
RAF Chailey | England | Sussex | 1943 | 1945 | ALG | |
RAF Chalgrove | England | Oxfordshire | 1943 | 1947 | Leased to ejection seat manufacturer Martin-Baker and known as Chalgrove Airfield. Ownership transferred to Homes England in 2016 with intention of redeveloping for 3,000 homes. | |
RAF Charlton Horethorne | England | Somerset | 1941 | 1942 | later RNAS Charlton Horethorne (HMS Heron II) | |
RAF Charmy Down | CH | England | Somerset | 1940 | 1946 | |
RAF Charterhall | KH | Scotland | Berwickshire | 1942 | 1946 | |
RAF Chattis Hill | England | Hampshire | 1917 | 1919 | ||
RAF Cheadle | England | Staffordshire | 1939 | 1964 | Operations transferred to Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and station became known as GCHQ Cheadle. | |
RAF Chedburgh | CU | England | Suffolk | 1942 | 1952 | Near Bury St Edmunds |
RAF Cheddington | CZ | England | Buckinghamshire | 1942 | 1952 | USAAF from 1944 |
RAF Chedworth | YW | England | Gloucestershire | 1942 | 1950 | Primarily used for training. Now primarily agricultural land. |
RAF Chelveston | CV | England | Northamptonshire | 1941 | 1962 | USAAF from 1944 |
RAF Cherhill | England | Wiltshire | 1954 | 1958 | Formerly and later RAF Yatesbury. | |
RAF Chepstow | Wales | Monmouthshire | 1941 | 1945 | Satellite Landing Ground,[9] initially for No 19 Maintenance Unit (MU) at St. Athan before switching to the control of No 38 MU at Llandow. | |
RAF Chesil Bank | England | Dorset | Second World War Bombing Ranges Unit with an Emergency Landing Ground | |||
RAF Chessington | England | Surrey | 1938 | 1985 | Formerly a Balloon station, latterly a research Hospital | |
RAF Chicksands | England | Bedfordshire | 1936 | 1997 | Transferred to the British Army and became the Defence Intelligence and Security Centre (DISC) and the headquarters of the Intelligence Corps. Now the Joint Intelligence Training Group (JITG). | |
RAF Chigwell | England | Essex | 1933 | 1958 | Barrage balloon site | |
RAF Chilbolton | CI | England | Hampshire | 1940 | 1945 | |
RAF Chilmark | England | Wiltshire | 1937 | 1995 | Retained by the Ministry of Defence and later sold for various civilian uses. | |
RAF Chipping Norton | England | Oxfordshire | 1940 | 1945 | Satellite station primarily used for training | |
RAF Chipping Ongar | JC | England | Essex | 1943 | 1946 | USAAF from 1944 |
RAF Chipping Warden | CW | England | Oxfordshire | 1941 | 1946 | |
RAF Chivenor | IV | England | Devon | 1940 | 1995 | Transferred to the Royal Marines and became RMB Chivenor. |
RAF Christchurch | CH | England | Hampshire | 1940 | 1945 | known as Christchurch Airfield in peacetime between 1926 and 1966. |
RAF Church Broughton | CB | England | Derbyshire | 1942 | 1963 | Opened as a satellite station of RAF Lichfield |
RAF Church Fenton | CF | England | North Yorkshire | 1937 | 2013 | Site sold and became Leeds East Airport. |
RAF Church Lawford | CL | England | Warwickshire | 1941 | 1955 | |
RAF Church Stanton | England | Somerset | 1941 | 1943 | renamed RAF Culmhead | |
RAF Cleave | England | Cornwall | 1939 | 1945 | (GCHQ CSO Morwenstow) | |
RAF Cluntoe | UK | Northern Ireland | County Tyrone | 1942 | 1955 | near Ardboe |
RAF Clyffe Pypard | England | Wiltshire | 1941 | 1947 | Used as accommodation for by RAF Lyneham and later used by the British Army for battle practice until 1961. Now reclaimed as agricultural land. | |
RAF Coal Aston | England | Yorkshire | 1918 | 1920 | Opened as a Royal Flying Corps airfield in 1916 | |
RAF Coleby Grange | CG | England | Lincolnshire | 1940 | 1946 | |
RAF Colerne | CQ | England | Wiltshire | 1940 | 1976 | Transferred to the British Army and became Azimghur Barracks. Airfield retain for occasional flying. |
RAF Collinstown | Republic of Ireland | Dublin | 1918 | 1922 | now Dublin Airport. | |
RAF Collyweston | England | Northamptonshire | 1918 | 1941 | Landing ground, consumed when absorbed by the westerly runway extension at RAF Wittering to the east | |
RAF Coltishall | CS | England | Norfolk | 1938 | 2006 | Site sold for redevelopment including construction of HM Prison Bure and a solar farm. Majority of the station now designated as a conservation area and known as Scottow Enterprise Park. Former married quarters now known as Badersfield. |
RAF Compton Basset | England | Wiltshire | 1940 | 1947 | ||
RAF Condover | DV | England | Shropshire | 1942 | 1945 | Satellite station of RAF Shawbury & Relief Landing Ground for RAF Ternhill. Primarily use for fighter pilots training by both RAF & USAAF. |
RAF Connel | KO | Scotland | Argyllshire | 1945 | Now Oban Airport. | |
RAF Cookstown | Republic of Ireland | Dublin (now South County Dublin). | 1918 | 1922 | now Cookstown Industrial Estate.
*Aerodrome buildings were used by Urney's Chocolate factory for a period. | |
RAF Coolham | XQ | England | Sussex | 1943 | 1944 | ALG |
RAF Copmanthorpe | England | Yorkshire | 1918 | 1919 | Opened as a Royal Flying Corps airfield in 1916 | |
RAF Corsewall | Scotland | Wigtownshire | 1942 | 1947 | Marine Craft Training School | |
RAF Cottam | CM | England | Yorkshire | 1939 | 1934 | Satellite station to RAF Driffield |
RAF Cottesmore | CT | England | Rutland | 1938 | 2012 | Transferred to the British Army and became Kendrew Barracks. |
RAF Cottenham | England | Cambridgeshire | 1918 | 1919 | Former Royal Flying Corps airfield opened in 1916 as a night landing ground | |
RAF Covehithe | England | Suffolk | 1918 | 1919 | Former Royal Naval Air Service airfield opened in 1915 | |
RAF Cowden | England | Yorkshire | 1950 | 1998 | Bombing range | |
RAF Crail | Scotland | Fife | 1918 | 1919 | Reopened by Royal Naval Fleet Air Arm in 1940 | |
RAF Cramlington | England | Northumberland | 1918 | 1919 | Opened as a Royal Flying Corps airfield in 1915 | |
RAF Cranage | RG | England | Cheshire | 1940 | 1945 | |
RAF Cranfield | CX | England | Bedfordshire | 1937 | 1952 | Now Cranfield University and Cranfield Airport |
RAF Credenhill | England | Herefordshire | 1940 | 1994 | Transferred to the British Army and became Stirling Lines. | |
RAF Croft | CR | England | Yorkshire | 1941 | 1956 | Now Croft Circuit |
RAF Croft | England | Cheshire | 1956 | 1959 | originally accommodation for Fleet Air Arm base HMS Gosling (1942-1950s), the station was used as a processing & billeting centre for personnel traveling between the UK and US by USAF Burtonwood. | |
RAF Crosby on Eden | KX | England | Cumbria | 1941 | 1944 | Now Carlisle Lake District Airport |
RAF Croydon | England | Surrey | 1916 | 1946 | Later Croydon Airport, now a retail/industrial estate | |
RAF Culham | England | Oxfordshire | 1940 | 1953 | as RNAS Culham | |
RAF Culmhead | UC | England | Somerset | 1941 | 1946 | |
RAF Dalcross | DZ | Scotland | Inverness-shire | 1941 | 1953 | Now Inverness Airport |
RAF Dale | Wales | Pembrokeshire | 1942 | 1943 | became RNAS Dale (HMS Goldcrest) | |
RAF Dallachy | DI | Scotland | Banffshire | 1943 | 1945 | |
RAF Dalton | DA | England | Yorkshire | 1941 | 1945 | |
RAF Darley Moor | DM | England | Derbyshire | 1942 | 1955 | Now Darley Moor Airfield |
RAF Davidstow Moor | DD | England | Cornwall | 1942 | 1945 | |
RAF Daws Hill | England | Buckinghamshire | 1944 | 2007 | Site sold for residential redevelopment, most station buildings demolished, former bunker now listed. | |
RAF Deanland | England | Sussex | 1943 | 1944 | ALG | |
RAF Debach | DC | England | Suffolk | 1944 | 1945 | (USAAF) |
RAF Debden | DB | England | Essex | 1937 | 1975 | Used by both US 8th Air Force and RAF Fighter Command in Second World War. Now home to HQ Essex Wing RAF Air Cadets and Carver Barracks (Army). |
RAF Deenethorpe | DP | England | Northamptonshire | 1943 | 1946 | |
RAF Defford | DF | England | Worcestershire | 1941 | 1957 | RAF Defford museum is now housed within the National Trust property of Croome. |
RAF Denham | England | Buckinghamshire | 1915 | 1940s | Flight training base, now Denham Aerodrome | |
RAF Deopham Green | DG | England | Norfolk | 1944 | 1948 | Assigned to USAAF & designated Station 142 |
RAF Desborough | DS | England | Northamptonshire | 1944 | 1948 | Assigned to USAAF |
RAF Desford | England | Leicestershire | 1916 | 1953 | Owned by Caterpillar Inc. since 1953, now an industrial site. | |
RAF Detling | England | Kent | 1916 | 1959 | ||
RAF Digby | DJ | England | Lincolnshire | 1918 | 1953 | Known as RAF Scopwick (1918–1920), Joint Service Signals Organisation Digby from 1998. |
RAF Dishforth | DH | England | North Yorkshire | 1936 | 1992 | Transferred to the British Army's Army Air Corps and became Dishforth Airfield. |
RAF Docking | DK | England | Norfolk | 1940 | 1958 | Satellite station of RAF Bircham Newton, returned to agricultural use. |
RAF Doncaster | England | Yorkshire | 1916 | 1954 | formerly RFC Doncaster (1914) Royal Flying Corps | |
RAF Donibristle | Scotland | Fife | 1917 | 1939 | Opened by Royal Naval Air Service in 1917 and returned to the Royal Navy (Fleet Air Arm) in 1939 as HMS Merlin RNAS Donibristle | |
RAF Donna Nook | ZN | England | Lincolnshire | 1927 | 1945 | Offshore bombing range |
RAF Dornoch | Scotland | Sutherland | 1941 | 1945 | No. 40 Satellite Landing Ground. | |
RAF Dounreay | DN | Scotland | Caithness | 1944 | 1954 | Airfield built for RAF but not used. Transferred to Royal Navy later in 1944 but never commissioned, and subsequently returned to Air Ministry. Never having become operational, it closed in 1954 and the northern area was absorbed by the Dounreay Nuclear Power Development Establishment. |
RAF Dover | England | Kent | 1918 | 1919 | Airship and seaplane base | |
RAF Down Ampney | XA | England | Gloucestershire | 1944 | 1946 | |
RAF Downham Market | DO | England | Norfolk | 1942 | 1946 | |
RAF Drem | DE | Scotland | East Lothian | 1916 | 1946 | World War I landing ground known as West Fenton and subsequently RAF Gullane, which closed in 1919. Reopened as RAF Drem in 1939. Passed to Royal Navy as HMS Nighthawk in 1945–46. |
RAF Driffield | DR | England | East Riding of Yorkshire | 1918 | 1977 | Formerly RAF Eastburn. Now British Army, Alamein Barracks. |
RAF Dumfries | DU | Scotland | Dumfriesshire | 1940 | 1957 | aka RAF Tinwald Downs, now Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum |
RAF Dundee | Scotland | Angus | 1914 | 1919 | Seaplane base inherited from Royal Naval Air Service in 1918, also known as Stannergate. Reopened by Royal Navy in 1940. | |
RAF Dundonald | Scotland | Ayrshire | 1940 | 1945 | ||
RAF Dunholme Lodge | DL | England | Lincolnshire | 1943 | 1964 | |
RAF Dunino | Scotland | Fife | 1941 | 1942 | became RNAS Dunino (HMS Jackdaw II) in 1942 | |
RAF Dunkeswell | DW | England | Devon | 1943 | 1949 | USN from 1944 |
RAF Dunsfold | England | Surrey | 1942 | 1945 | later BAE Systems Dunsfold, now Dunsfold Aerodrome, and Top Gear studio and race track | |
RAF Durrington | England | West Sussex | 1941 | Radar station. The former GCI radar station is being used as Palatine School, a school for those with special educational needs. The site underwent a major redevelopment in 2006 and was extended from the radar station building to accommodate more pupils. | ||
RAF Duxford | DX | England | Cambridgeshire | 1918 | 1963 | Put on Care and Maintenance from end of First World War in 1918 until the formation of RAF Fighter Command. Used by Both RAF Fighter Command and the US 8th Air Force during the Second World War, then home to RAF Strike Command until closure. Now operated by the Imperial War Museum, Duxford since falling derelict after making 'The Battle of Britain' film in 1968. |
RAF Dyce | DY | Scotland | Aberdeenshire | 1937 | 1957 | Opened in 1934 as Aberdeen Airport, which it remains. |
RAF Dymchurch | England | Kent | 1915 | 1920 | Balloon station, also aircraft. Site considered for WWII ALG | |
RAF Earls Colne | EC | England | Essex | 1943 | 1947 | now Earls Colne Airfield |
RAF Eastbourne | England | Sussex | 1914 | 1920 | ||
RAF East Fortune | EF | Scotland | East Lothian | 1916 | 1960 | Former Royal Naval Air Service station. Closed 1920 but reopened 1940. |
RAF East Kirkby | EK | England | Lincolnshire | 1943 | 1970 | |
RAF East Moor | EM | England | Yorkshire | 1942 | 1946 | RCAF from 1944 |
RAF East Wretham | UT | England | Norfolk | 1940 | 1946 | USAAF from 1944 |
RAF Eastchurch | England | Kent | 1912 | 1947 | Now HMP Stamford Hill | |
RAF Eastleigh | England | Hampshire | 1910 | 1920
1961 |
Was RNAS Raven when operated by the Royal Navy in WW2, reopened 1961, now Southampton Airport | |
RAF Edlesborough | England | Buckinghamshire | c. 1939 | 2012 | Communications site satellite of RAF Stanbridge | |
RAF Edgehill | EH | England | Oxfordshire | Gliding Club and Kart Track | ||
RAF Edzell | EZ | Scotland | Angus | 1940 | 1997 | World War 1 airfield nearby operated 1918–19. New airfield opened 1940. Flying ceased 1957, thereafter to United States Navy for electronic surveillance, now in private use as a materials storage area. |
RAF Eglinton | QM | Northern Ireland | County Londonderry | 1941 | 1943 | To Fleet Air Arm in 1943 as HMS Gannet. Now City of Derry Airport, Derry |
RAF Elgin | Scotland | Morayshire | 1940 | 1947 | ||
RAF Elsham Wolds | ES | England | Lincolnshire | 1941 | 1947 | |
RAF Elvington | EV | England | Yorkshire | 1942 | 1958 | Airfield retained until 1992 as a relief landing ground for RAF flying training schools at Church Fenton and Linton-on-Ouse, later sold in 1999. Technical site preserved as Yorkshire Air Museum, which opened in 1986. |
RAF Ely | Wales | South Glamorgan | No. 14 Balloon Centre Cardiff | |||
RAF Hospital Ely | England | Cambridgeshire | 1939 | 1992 | Transferred to NHS as Princess of Wales Hospital, Ely. | |
RAF Elmdon | England | Warwickshire | 1939 | 1946 | Previously and now Birmingham Airport | |
RAF Enstone | EN | England | Oxfordshire | now Enstone Airfield | ||
RAF Errol | ER | Scotland | Perthshire | 1942 | 1948 | |
RAF Eshott | England | Northumberland | 1942 | 1945 | ||
RAF Evanton | ET | Scotland | Ross and Cromarty | 1922 | 1944 | Known as RAF Novar until 1937. Transferred to Royal Navy as HMS Fieldfare |
RAF Exeter | EX | England | Devon | 1937 | 1946 | Previously and now Exeter International Airport |
RAF Eye | EY | England | Suffolk | 1944 | 1945 | USAAF. Now an industrial estate. |
RAF Fairoaks | England | Surrey | 1937 | 1967 | Now Fairoaks Airport | |
RAF Fairlop | England | Essex | 1941 | 1945 | ||
RAF Fairwood Common | FC | Wales | West Glamorgan | 1941 | 1946 | Now Swansea Airport |
RAF Faldingworth | FH | England | Lincolnshire | 1943 | 1972 | Now operated as a Government test facility for munitions. |
RAF Farnborough | England | Hampshire | 1911 | 1996 | Former Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough, now Farnborough Airport | |
RAF Fauld | England | Staffordshire | 1973 | Underground bomb stores, see RAF Fauld Explosion of December 1944 | ||
RAF Fazakerley | England | Lancashire | ||||
RAF Fearn | Scotland | Ross and Cromarty | 1941 | 1942 | Transferred to Royal Navy in 1942 as HMS Owl. | |
RAF Felixstowe | England | Suffolk | 1913 | 1962 | ||
RAF Fersfield | WF | England | Norfolk | 1944 | 1945 | (USAAF) |
RAF Filey Town | England | Yorkshire | ||||
RAF Filton | England | Gloucestershire | 1916 | 1957 | Later Bristol Filton Airport, now closed | |
RAF Findo Gask | FG | Scotland | Perthshire | 1941 | 1948 | Originally no. 25 Satellite Landing Ground, but later developed into full aerodrome. |
RAF Finmere | FI | England | Buckinghamshire | 1941 | 1945 | |
RAF Finningley | FB | England | Yorkshire | 1915 | 1996 | Later Doncaster Sheffield Airport, closed 2022 |
RAF Firbeck | England | Yorkshire | 1940 | 1945 | ||
RAF Fiskerton | FN | England | Lincolnshire | 1943 | 1945 | |
RAF Flowerdown | England | Hampshire | 1919 | 1929 | Later HMS Flowerdown until 1956 and GCHQ until 1979. One of the Y-stations. Now Sir John Moore Barracks, Army Training Regiment | |
RAF Folkestone | England | Kent | 1915 | 1918 | Airship station, previously RNAS Capel-le-Ferne. Site used for a wireless station during WWII | |
RAF Folkingham | FO/FK (USAAF) | England | Lincolnshire | 1943 | 1963 | (USAAF 1944–1945) |
RAF Ford | England | Sussex | 1918 | 1920
1940 |
Became HMS Peregrine in 1940, now Ford Open Prison | |
RAF Fordoun | FR | Scotland | Kincardineshire | 1942 | 1950 | |
RAF Foreland | England | Isle of Wight | 1918 | 1919 | Seaplane base | |
RAF Forres | Scotland | Morayshire | 1940 | 1944 | Transferred to War Department in 1944. | |
RAF Foulsham | FU | England | Norfolk | 1942 | 1945 | |
RAF Fowlmere | FW | England | Cambridgeshire | 1918 | 1945 | Returned to agriculture following the end of First World War. Reactivated at the outbreak of Second World War in 1939. Used by US 8th Air Force and RAF Fighter Command during Second World War. Returned to agriculture at the end of hostilities. |
RAF Framlingham | FM | England | Suffolk | 1943 | 1945 | USAAF. Also known as RAF Parham. Returned to agriculture and small industrial estate; control tower now Parham Airfield Museum.[10] |
RAF Fraserburgh | FB | Scotland | Aberdeenshire | 1941 | 1945 | |
RAF Freckleton | England | Lancashire | 1953 | 1962 | Operated as a Medical Training Unit. Originally part of RAF Warton, but, in 1947, following the sale of the main Warton Airfield site to the English Electric Company, the site used as a Medical Training Unit became part of RAF Lytham. When RAF Lytham closed in 1956, the site continued to offer Medical Training and was designated as RAF Freckleton. | |
RAF Freiston | England | Lincolnshire | 1916 | 1919 | (formerly RNAS Freiston – became an RAF station in 1918) | |
RAF Friston | England | Sussex | 1936 | 1945 | ||
RAF Frost Hill Farm[11] | England | Hampshire | 1940 | 1945 | ALG | |
RAF Fulbeck | FK/FB (USAAF) | England | Lincolnshire | 1941 | 1970 | (USAAF 1943–1944) |
RAF Full Sutton | FS | England | Yorkshire | 1944 | 1963 | private flying and HM Prison Full Sutton |
RAF Funtington | England | Sussex | 1943 | 1944 | ALG | |
RAF Gamston | GB | England | Nottinghamshire | 1942 | 1957 | now Retford Gamston Airport |
RAF Gatwick | England | Surrey | 1937 | 1946 | Now London Gatwick Airport | |
RAF Gaydon | England | Warwickshire | 1942 | 1974 | Part of the site is now the Heritage Motor Centre | |
RAF Glatton | GT | England | Cambridgeshire | 1943 | 1946 | (USAAF) |
RAF Gormanston | Republic of Ireland | County Meath | 1917 | Feb 1920 | Now the Irish Army Gormanston Camp | |
RAF Gosfield | England | Essex | 1943 | 1945 | ||
RAF Gosport | England | Hampshire | 1915 | 1945 | Became HMS Siskin in 1945 | |
RAF Goxhill | GX | England | Lincolnshire | 1941 | 1953 | (USAAF) |
RAF Grafton Underwood | GU | England | Northamptonshire | 1943 | 1959 | (USAAF) |
RAF Grain | England | Kent | 1916 | 1924 | Airship and seaplane base, also known as RAF Port Victoria | |
RAF Grangemouth | Scotland | Stirlingshire | 1939 | 1955 | Also known as Central Scotland Airport | |
RAF Gransden Lodge | GD | England | Bedfordshire | 1942 | 1955 | |
RAF Grantham | England | Lincolnshire | (renamed RAF Spitalgate) – now a Territorial Army establishment | |||
RAF Graveley | GR | England | Huntingdonshire | 1942 | 1968 | |
RAF Gravesend | England | Kent | 1937 | 1956 | Now Riverview Park Housing Estate. Prior to WW2 was Gravesend Airport | |
RAF Great Ashfield | GA ? | England | Suffolk | 1943 | 1960 | (USAAF) |
RAF Great Dunmow | GD | England | Essex | 1943 | 1958 | (USAAF) |
RAF Great Massingham | GM | England | Norfolk | 1940 | 1958 | |
RAF Great Sampford | England | Essex | 1942 | 1948 | (joint RAF/USAAF use) | |
RAF Great Witcombe | England | Gloucestershire | ||||
RAF Great Yarmouth | England | Norfolk | First World War landing ground | |||
RAF Greatham | England | County Durham | Also known as RAF West Hartlepool | |||
RAF Greatworth | England | Northamptonshire | 1943 | 1992 | HF Transmitter Site. Provided long range communications using Short Wave Transmitters. Sold for civilian uses and became Greatworth Park Business Park, utilising station buildings. | |
RAF Greencastle | Northern Ireland | County Down | 1942 | 1945 | (USAAF) | |
RAF Greenham Common | England | Berkshire | 1942 | 1993 | Technical site now a business park, with remainder of the station a public parkland known as Greenham and Crookham Commons. | |
RAF Greenland Top | England | Lincolnshire | (Also known as RAF Stallingborough) | |||
RAF Greenock | Scotland | Renfrewshire | 1940 | 1945 | Flying boat maintenance facility | |
RAF Grimsby | GY | England | Lincolnshire | 1941 | 1946 | (aka RAF Waltham) |
RAF Grimsetter | Scotland | Orkney | 1940 | 1943 | Also known as RAF Kirkwall. Transferred to Royal Navy in 1943 as HMS Robin. Now Kirkwall Airport. | |
RAF Grimsthorpe Park | England | Lincolnshire | ||||
RAF Grove | England | Berkshire | 1942 | 1946 | (USAAF) | |
RAF Guston Road[12] | England | Kent | 1914 | 1919 | see also Duke of York's Royal Military School, Dover | |
RAF Hack Green | England | Cheshire | now Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker | |||
RAF Halesworth | HA | England | Suffolk | 1942 | 1946 | (USAAF) |
RAF Halfpenny Green | England | Staffordshire | 1941 | 1953 | Formerly RAF Bobbington (now Wolverhampton Airport) | |
RAF Hall Caine | Isle of Man | Formerly Hall Caine Airport, now farmland | ||||
RAF Hospital Halton | England | Buckinghamshire | 1927 | 1995 | Demolished in 2008, site sold and redeveloped for housing. Not to be confused with RAF Halton. | |
RAF Hamble | England | Hampshire | 1931 | 1978 | ||
RAF Hammerwood | England | Sussex | 1943 | 1944 | ALG | |
RAF Hampstead Norris | HN | England | Berkshire | |||
RAF Hamworthy | England | Dorsetshire | ||||
RAF Handforth | England | Cheshire | ||||
RAF Hanworth | England | Surrey | ||||
RAF Hardwick | HC | England | Norfolk | 1942 | 1962 | (USAAF) |
RAF Harlaxton | England | Lincolnshire | ||||
RAF Harling Road | England | Norfolk | 1918 | 1920 | First World War landing ground opened in 1916 and used by the Royal Flying Corps and the United States Army Air Corps | |
RAF Harpswell | England | Lincolnshire | (later renamed as RAF Hemswell) | |||
RAF Harpur Hill | England | Derbyshire | Munitions storage depot | |||
RAF Hartford Bridge | England | Hampshire | 1941 | 1953 | Later renamed RAF Blackbushe, now Blackbushe Airport | |
RAF Harrington | England | Northamptonshire | 1943 | 1963 | (USAAF) | |
RAF Harrogate | England | Yorkshire | 1940 | 1994 | Sold, buildings demolished and site redeveloped for housing. | |
RAF Harrowbeer | QB | England | Devon | 1941 | 1950 | |
RAF Harwell | HW | England | Oxfordshire | 1937 | 1945 | |
RAF Hatfield | England | Hertfordshire | 1939 | 1956 | RAF/ATA use of de Havilland's Hatfield Aerodrome
((RAF Hatston)) ((Orkneys)) 1939 1945 Previously a civil site, the Royal Navy took it over as HMS Sparrowhawk, now agricultural with some light industry | |
RAF Haverfordwest | Wales | Pembrokeshire | 1943 | 1956 | ||
RAF Hawarden | Wales | Flintshire | 1939 | 1957 | 48 MU Aircraft Storage Unit, now Hawarden Airport | |
RAF Hawkinge | England | Kent | 1914 | 1963 | ||
RAF Haydock | England | Lancashire | Also known as RAF Blackbrook | |||
RAF Headcorn | HC | England | Kent | 1943 | 1945 | (USAAF ALG) |
RAF Heath Row | England | Greater London | Now London Heathrow Airport | |||
RAF Headley Court | England | Surrey | 1946 | 1985 | Subsequently the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre operated by Defence Medical Services, part of Joint Forces Command.[citation needed] Now closed, DMRC relocating to a new site in Leicestershire. | |
RAF Helperby | England | North Yorkshire | 1916 | 1947 | First World War airfield, used as an ammunition dump in the Second World War | |
RAF Hednesford | England | Staffordshire | 1938 | 1956 | ||
RAF Helensburgh | Scotland | Dunbartonshire | 1939 | 1945 | Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment | |
RAF Hell's Mouth | Wales | Gwynedd | ||||
RAF Hemswell | HL | England | Lincolnshire | 1937 | 1967 | |
RAF Hendon | England | Middlesex | 1910 | 1957 | Airfield redeveloped into Graham Park housing estate (early 1970s-on) and RAF Museum, London. | |
RAF Henley-on-Thames | England | Oxfordshire | ||||
RAF Hereford | England | Herefordshire | 1940 | 1994 | Transferred to the British Army and became Stirling Lines. | |
RAF Heston | England | Middlesex | ||||
RAF Hethel | HL | England | Norfolk | 1942 | 1947 | now owned by Lotus Cars |
RAF Heywood | England | Lancashire | Maintenance Unit | |||
RAF Hibaldstow | England | Lincolnshire | 1941 | 1945 | ||
RAF High Ercall | England | Shropshire | 1941 | 1962 | ||
RAF Highgate | England | Middlesex | 1942 | 1948 | Home to RAF Intelligence training during WW2. In former Caen Wood Towers (now Athlone House) | |
RAF High Halden | HH | England | Kent | 1943 | 1944 | (USAAF ALG) |
RAF Hingham | England | Norfolk | First World War landing ground | |||
RAF Hinstock | England | Shropshire | 1941 | 1947 | Co-located with RN Fleet Air Arm station HMS Godwit. Specialised in instrument and blind landing technologies. | |
RAF Hinton-in-the-Hedges | HI | England | Northamptonshire | 1940 | 1945 | now Hinton-in-the-Hedges Airfield |
RAF Hixon | HX | England | Staffordshire | 1942 | 1957 | |
RAF Hockley Heath | England | Warwickshire | ||||
RAF Holbeach | England | Lincolnshire | Air Weapons Range | |||
RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor | HM | England | Yorkshire | 1941 | 1953 | |
RAF Holmsley South | HM | England | Hampshire | 1942 | 1946 | |
RAF Holt | England | Norfolk | First World War landing ground | |||
RAF Honeybourne | HQ | England | Worcestershire | 1941 | 1946 | |
RAF Honiley | England | Warwickshire | 1941 | 1958 | ||
RAF Hooton Park | England | Cheshire | 1917 | 1957 | ||
RAF Hopton | England | Suffolk | ||||
RAF Horham | JH | England | Suffolk | 1942 | 1963 | (USAAF) |
RAF Hornby Hall | England | Westmorland | 1941 | 1945 | No. 9 SLG | |
RAF Hornchurch | England | Essex | 1928 | 1962 | Formerly WW1 Flight Station of RFC/RAF Sutton's Farm | |
RAF Horne | England | Surrey | 1943 | 1944 | ALG | |
RAF Horsham St Faith | HF | England | Norfolk | 1940 | 1963 | Now Norwich Airport |
RAF Hucknall | England | Nottinghamshire | 1916 | 1957 | ||
RAF Hullavington | England | Wiltshire | 1937 | 1993 | Technical site transferred to the British Army and became Hullavington Barracks, later renamed Buckley Barracks in 2003. Airfield retained by the RAF for gliding operations and known as Hullavington Airfield, with flying ceasing in 2016 and the site sold to technology company Dyson. | |
RAF Hunmanby Moor | England | Yorkshire | 1939 | 1945 | Also known as RAF Filey Camp, later Butlin's Filey | |
RAF Hunsdon | England | Hertfordshire | 1941 | 1947 | ||
RAF Hurn | KU | England | Hampshire | 1941 | 1944 | Now Bournemouth Airport |
RAF Husbands Bosworth | HZ | England | Leicestershire | 1943 | 1956 | now agriculture, a gliding club is resident to the north of the public road that crosses the site from east to west |
RAF Hutton Cranswick | CK | England | Yorkshire | 1942 | 1946 | |
RAF Hythe | England | Hampshire | 1915 | 1919 | ||
RAF Ibsley | IB | England | Hampshire | 1941 | 1947 | |
RAF Immingham | England | Lincolnshire | (formerly RNAS Immingham – transferred to RAF in 1918) | |||
RAF Ingham | England | Lincolnshire | (later named RAF Cammeringham) | |||
RAF Innsworth | England | Gloucestershire | 1940 | 2008 | Was the RAF Records Centre, transferred to British Army and became NATO Station Innsworth, Imjin Barracks | |
RAF Isle of Grain | England | Kent | (pre-RAF) RNAS airship station, then RAF Isle of Grain | |||
RAF Joyce Green | England | Kent | 1914 | 1919 | Coincidentally Vickers testing aerodrome 1910–1919 | |
RAF Jurby | Isle of Man | 1939 | 1972 | |||
RAF Jurby Head | Isle of Man | 1939 | 1993 | Former inshore air weapons range. Ordnance periodically continues to be washed ashore onto adjacent beaches or brought up in fishing nets. | ||
RAF Keevil | England | Wiltshire | 1942 | 1965 | ||
RAF Kelstern | KS | England | Lincolnshire | 1943 | 1945 | |
RAF Kemble | England | Gloucestershire | 1938 | 1984 | ||
RAF Kenley | England | Croydon | 1917 | 1974 | Airfield retained by the Ministry of Defence and used for gliding. Some parts of former station sold for residential redevelopment. | |
RAF Kidbrooke | England | London | 1917 | 1965 | The site was mainly used as a stores, maintenance and training facility, and now is used for housing and schools. | |
RAF Kidlington | England | Oxfordshire | 1938 | 1951 | now Oxford Airport | |
RAF Kidsdale | Scotland | Wigtownshire | 1937 | 1943 | Joint RAF/Army gunnery range, 'Queen Bee' unmanned aircraft launch site – also known as Burrow Head. To War Department in 1943. | |
RAF Killadeas | Northern Ireland | County Fermanagh | 1942 | 1947 | ||
RAF Kimbolton | KI | England | Huntingdonshire | 1941 | 1946 | (USAAF) |
RAF Kings Cliffe | England | Northamptonshire | 1941 | 1959 | (USAAF) | |
RAF Kingsnorth | England | Kent | 1914 | 1919 | WWI formerly RNAS Kingsnorth, Isle of Grain, 51° 22' 25" N 0° 36' 07" E, Airship station on the Isle of Grain. Not to be confused with RAF Isle of Grain 51° 26' 21" N 0° 42' 46" E | |
RAF Kingsnorth | KN | England | Kent | 1943 | 1943 | (WWII ALG) near Ashford |
RAF Kingstown RAF Carlisle |
England | Cumbria | 1938 | 1996 | Sites sold for civilian use including residential development and Kingmoor Business Park. | |
RAF Kinloss | KW | Scotland | Morayshire | 1939 | 2012 | Transferred to the British Army and became Kinloss Barracks. Maintained as a Relief Landing Ground (RLG) for RAF Lossiemouth. |
RAF Kinnell | Scotland | Angus | 1942 | 1948 | ||
RAF Kirkbride | England | Cumbria | 1939 | 1960 | ||
RAF Kirkham | England | Lancashire | 1940 | 1957 | Part of the site is now HM Prison Kirkham | |
RAF Kirkistown | Northern Ireland | County Down | 1941 | 1946 | On loan to Royal Navy 1945-46 as "HMS Corncrake II" | |
RAF Kirknewton | Scotland | Midlothian | 1941 | Since 1967 the airfield has been used by No. 661 Volunteer Gliding School | ||
RAF Kirkpatrick | Scotland | Dumfriesshire | 1940 | 1945 | Relief Landing Ground for RAF Kingstown | |
RAF Kirkton | Scotland | Sutherland | 1941 | 1945 | No. 41 Satellite Landing Ground. | |
RAF Kirmington | KG | England | Lincolnshire | 1942 | 1953 | Now Humberside Airport |
RAF Kirton in Lindsey | KL | England | Lincolnshire | 1940 | 1966
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RAF Knettishall | KN | England | Suffolk | 1943 | 1959 | (USAAF) |
RAF Langar | LA | England | Nottinghamshire | |||
RAF Langford Lodge | Northern Ireland | County Antrim | 1942 | 1953 | Intended as no. 20 Satellite Landing Ground but completed as a full airfield. | |
RAF Langham | England | Norfolk | 1940 | 1961 | ||
RAF Larkhill | England | Wiltshire | 1918 | 1942 | Also known as RAF Knighton Down | |
RAF Lasham | England | Hampshire | 1942 | 1948 | now Lasham Airfield | |
RAF Lashenden | England | Kent | 1943 | 1945 | (ALG), now Lashenden (Headcorn) Airfield | |
RAF Lavenham | LV | England | Suffolk | 1943 | 1948 | (USAAF) |
RAF Leadenham | England | Lincolnshire | ||||
RAF Leanach | Scotland | Inverness-shire | 1941 | 1945 | No. 43 Satellite Landing Ground | |
RAF Leconfield | LC | England | East Riding of Yorkshire | 1936 | 1977 | Transferred to British Army and became the Army School of Mechanical Transport, subsequently the Defence School of Transport. |
RAF Lee-on-Solent | England | Hampshire | 1917 | 1939 | Transferred to Navy as RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus) in 1939 | |
RAF Leicester East | England | Leicestershire | Now Leicester Airport | |||
RAF Leiston | England | Suffolk | 1943 | 1953 | (USAAF) | |
RAF Lennoxlove | Scotland | East Lothian | 1941 | 1945 | No. 27 Satellite Landing Ground. | |
RAF Leuchars | Scotland | Fife | 1920 | 2015 | Transferred to the British Army and became Leuchars Station. Maintained as a Relief Landing Ground (RLG) for RAF Lossiemouth. | |
RAF Lichfield | LF | England | Staffordshire | 1940 | 1958 | |
RAF Limavady | Northern Ireland | County Londonderry | 1940 | 1945 | ||
RAF Lindholme | LB | England | Yorkshire | 1940 | 1985 | (previously called RAF Hatfield Woodhouse), now HM Prison Lindholme |
RAF Linton-on-Ouse | LO | England | Yorkshire | 1936 | 2020 | Station closed with no alternative military use proposed. Site expected to be disposed of by the Ministry of Defence.[13] |
RAF Lissett | LT | England | Yorkshire | 1943 | 1945 | |
RAF Little Horwood | LH | England | Buckinghamshire | |||
RAF Little Rissington | LR | England | Gloucestershire | 1938 | 1994 | Still in use by 637 VGS and 621 VGS (Volunteer Gliding Squadron) |
RAF Little Snoring | LS | England | Norfolk | 1943 | 1958 | |
RAF Little Staughton | LX | England | Cambridgeshire | 1942 | 1945 | |
RAF Little Walden | LL | England | Essex | 1944 | 1945 | (USAAF) |
RAF Llanbedr | Wales | Gwynedd | ||||
RAF Llandaff | Wales | Cardiff | 1946 | 1980 | Formerly RAF Caerau | |
RAF Llandow | Wales | South Glamorgan | 1940 | 1957 | now Llandow Circuit | |
RAF Llandwrog | Wales | Gwynedd | ||||
RAF Locking | England | Somerset | 1937 | 1998 | Site sold and station buildings demolished, redeveloped for commercial and residential use. | |
RAF Long Kesh | Northern Ireland | County Antrim | 1941 | 1948 | subsequently HM Prison Maze, now closed | |
RAF Long Marston | JS | England | Warwickshire | |||
RAF Longbenton | England | Northumberland | vehicle storage unit | |||
RAF Longman | Scotland | Inverness-shire | 1940 | 1946 | Also known as RAF Inverness. Opened as Inverness Airport in 1933, but replaced by present Inverness Airport (former RAF Dalcross) in 1947. | |
RAF Longley Lane | England | Lancashire | ||||
RAF Loughborough | England | Leicestershire | ||||
RAF Low Eldrig | Scotland | Wigtownshire | 1941 | 1944 | No. 11 Satellite Landing Ground. Only used during summer months of 1941 and 1942. | |
RAF Ludford Magna | LM | England | Lincolnshire | 1943 | 1963 | |
RAF Ludham | England | Norfolk | 1941 | 1946 | Also RNAS Ludham/HMS Flycatcher, now unlicensed private landing strip. | |
RAF Lulsgate Bottom | England | Somerset | 1940 | 1946 | Now Bristol Airport | |
RAF Luton | England | Bedfordshire | 1938 | 1946 | Now London Luton Airport | |
RAF Lydd (WWII) | England | Kent | 1943 | 1944 | WWII ALG – not the current Lydd Airport | |
RAF Lymington | LY | England | Hampshire | 1942 | 1944 | ALG |
RAF Lympne | England | Kent | 1916 | 1946 | Also served as Lympne Airport between the wars and post WWII, and as HMS Buzzard / HMS Daedalus II 1938–40 | |
RAF Lyneham | England | Wiltshire | 1940 | 2012 | Transferred to British Army and became MOD Lyneham, home to the new Defence School of Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, part of the Defence College of Technical Training (DCTT) . | |
RAF Lytham | England | Lancashire | 1947 | 1956 | Originally part of RAF Warton, but when the main airfield site was sold to the English Electric Company in 1947, one of the outlying sites was designated as RAF Lytham, and was used as a Transit Camp and for Medical Training. This site closed in 1956, with the Medical Training Unit moving to another nearby site with the designated name of RAF Freckleton. | |
RAF Machrihanish | Scotland | Argyllshire | 1918 | 1996 | Briefly used as an airfield during 1918. Reopened by Royal Navy in 1941 as HMS Landrail. Transferred to RAF in 1963. Since 1996, part of the site has been leased to Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd. and is known as Campbeltown Airport. The remainder of the site was retained by the MOD until 2012 when it was sold to the Machrihanish Airbase Community Company under community right-to-buy legislation. | |
RAF Macmerry | Scotland | East Lothian | 1941 | 1946 | Also (unofficially) known as RAF Tranent and RAF Penston, and briefly transferred to Royal Navy as HMS Nighthawk II during 1945. Operated as civil airfield 1929–53. | |
RAF Madley | England | Herefordshire | 1941 | 1946 | Now a BT Group earth station - Madley Communications Centre | |
RAF Maghaberry | Northern Ireland | County Antrim | 1941 | 1946 | Now HM Prison Maghaberry | |
RAF Manby | England | Lincolnshire | 1938 | 1974 | ||
RAF Manorbier | Wales | Pembrokeshire | 1933 | 1946 | ||
RAF Manston | England | Kent | 1917 | 1999 | Became Kent International Airport (closed 2014) and Defence Fire Training and Development Centre (closed 2020). Now MOD Manston, base for PWRR 3rd Battalion A Company. | |
RAF Manywells Height | England | Yorkshire | 1916 | 1919 | No trace remains, returned to farmland | |
RAF Marden | England | Kent | 1917 | 1919 | Class 2 Airfield, near Staplehurst, housed a RAF wireless transmitter station during WW2 | |
RAF Market Deeping | England | Lincolnshire | ||||
RAF Market Drayton | England | Shropshire | (Buntingsdale Hall) | |||
RAF Market Harborough | MB | England | Leicestershire | 1943 | 1947 | |
RAF Market Stainton | England | Lincolnshire | ||||
RAF Marston Moor | MA | England | Yorkshire | 1941 | 1945 | originally named RAF Tockwith and sometimes incorrectly RAF Marsden Moor |
RAF Martlesham Heath | MH | England | Suffolk | 1917 | 1963 | Pre 1939 was home to Royal Aircraft Establishment, in 1939 RAE moved to Farnborough and airfield became a Fighter Station as part of 11 Group. In 1943 RAF Moved out and USAAF moved in. Post war the airfield had numerous roles until 1959 when it became home to Headquarters 11 Group Fighter Command, and that same year the Original Battle of Britain Flight as it was then known moved from North Weald where it had been formed to Martlesham Heath. In 1961 however it was decided that the close proximity of Martlesham's circuit to the fast Jets of the bases of nearby Woodbridge and Bentwaters was becoming a problem and Martlesham was declared surplus to requirements and the Royal Air Force moved out. Now mostly redeveloped into housing, retail park and light industrial development but an aviation museum is located in the former control tower.[14] |
RAF Marwell Hall | England | Hampshire | 1941 | 1945 | Now the site of Marwell Zoo | |
RAF Matching | MT | England | Essex | 1943 | 1945 | |
RAF Matlaske | England | Norfolk | ||||
RAF Mattishall | England | Norfolk | First World War landing ground | |||
RAF Maydown | Northern Ireland | County Londonderry | 1942 | 1945 | Transferred to Royal Navy as HMS Gannet II. | |
RAF Medmenham | England | Buckinghamshire | 1941 | 1977 | ||
RAF Meikle Ferry | Scotland | Ross and Cromarty | 1942 | 1946 | Marine Craft Unit | |
RAF Meir | England | Staffordshire | ||||
RAF Melbourne | ME | England | Yorkshire | 1940 | 1945 | |
RAF Melksham | England | Wiltshire | 1940 | 1965 | Training schools | |
RAF Melton Mowbray | England | Leicestershire | 1943 | 1964 | Now military dog training site | |
RAF Membury | ME | England | Berkshire | 1942 | 1947 | (USAAF) |
RAF Mendlesham | MD | England | Suffolk | 1944 | 1954 | (USAAF) |
RAF Mepal | MP | England | Cambridgeshire | 1943 | 1963 | now Mepal Airfield |
RAF Merston | England | Sussex | 1941 | 1944 | USAAF 1942–43 (Satellite of RAF Tangmere). Used by French RAF pilots during D-Day[15] | |
RAF Merryfield | HI, MF | England | Somerset | 1944 | 1946 | USAAF 1944–45, now RNAS Merryfield HMS Heron II from 1971. Formerly known as RAF Isle Abbots. |
RAF Metfield | England | Suffolk | 1943 | 1945 | (USAAF) | |
RAF Metheringham | MN | England | Lincolnshire | 1943 | 1946 | |
RAF Methven | Scotland | Perthshire | 1941 | c.1945 | No. 24 Satellite Landing Ground. | |
RAF Methwold | ML | England | Norfolk | 1939 | 1958 | |
RAF Middle Wallop | England | Hampshire | 1940 | 1958 | now used by the British Army, AAC Middle Wallop | |
RAF Middleton St. George | MG | England | County Durham | 1941 | 1965 | Formerly RAF Goosepool, now Teesside International Airport |
RAF Milfield | England | Northumberland | 1942 | 1946 | Previously used as landing ground known as Woodbridge during 1917. | |
RAF Mill Green | England | Hertfordshire | 1943 | 1948 | RAF Airfield Construction Branch plant store and training base | |
RAF Millom | England | Cumbria | 1941 | 1945 | Now HM Prison Haverigg | |
RAF Milltown | Scotland | Morayshire | 1943 | 2001 | Closed for flying in 1977, retained by the RAF as a high frequency signals transmitter station until transfer to the Defence Communication Services Agency in 2001. HF station later closed and site was sold in 2013. | |
RAF Minchinhampton | England | Gloucestershire | 1918 | 1919 | ||
RAF Misson | England | Nottinghamshire | Cold War Bloodhound missile site as defence for (then) RAF Finningley to the west | |||
RAF Montford Bridge | England | Shropshire | 1941 | 1945 | Satellite station of RAF Rednal | |
RAF Montrose | Scotland | Angus | 1912 | 1952 | First military airfield in Scotland. | |
RAF Morecambe | England | Lancashire | The Midland Hotel requisitioned as an RAF Hospital | |||
RAF Moreton-in-Marsh | MO | England | Gloucestershire | 1941 | 1955 | Now the site of the Fire Service College |
RAF Moreton Valence | England | Gloucestershire | 1939 | 1962 | The runway is now buried under the M5 motorway. The station was adjacent to 7MU Quedgeley. | |
RAF Morpeth | England | Northumberland | 1942 | 1948 | Also known locally as Tranwell. | |
RAF Mount Batten | England | Devon | 1918 | 1986 | formerly RAF Cattewater | |
RAF Mount Farm | MF | England | Oxfordshire | 1940 | 1946 | (USAAF) |
RAF Mousehold Heath | England | Norfolk | 1914 under RFC, became first Norwich Airport in 1933. Now a recreational area. | |||
RAF Mullaghmore | Northern Ireland | County Londonderry | 1942 | 1945 | ||
RAF Murlough | Northern Ireland | County Down | 1941 | 1945 | No. 19 Satellite Landing Ground. | |
RAF Narborough | England | Norfolk | 1915 | 1919 | Sited to the NE of present-day RAF Marham | |
RAF Needs Oar Point | England | Hampshire | 1943 | 1944 | ALG | |
RAF Nether Wallop | England | Hampshire | 1945 | 1946 | HQ Southern Sector | |
RAF Netheravon | England | Wiltshire | 1919 | 1957 | Netheravon Camp (Army Air Corps) 1963–2012 | |
RAF Newchurch | England | Kent | 1943 | 1944 | ALG | |
RAF Newhaven | England | Sussex | 1917 | 1919 | Newhaven Seaplane Base | |
RAF Newmarket | NM | England | Suffolk | 1939 | 1945 | |
RAF New Romney | England | Kent | 1917 | 1919 | (WWI) Became Littlestone Airfield post-war, used as an Emergency Landing Ground | |
RAF New Romney | England | Kent | 1942 | 1944 | (WWII) Also known as RAF Honeychild | |
RAF Newton | NA | England | Nottinghamshire | 1937 | 2000 | Reduced to an enclave in 1995, site later closed and sold for residential-led mixed use development. Former aircraft hangars retrained for commercial use. |
RAF Newtownards | Northern Ireland | County Down | 1939 | 1945 | Opened as Ards Airport in 1934, now Newtownards Airport. | |
RAF Hospital Nocton Hall | England | Lincolnshire | 1947 | 1995 | Sold and converted to residential care home, later became derelict. | |
RAF North Coates | England | Lincolnshire | 1935 | 1990 | ||
RAF North Creake | NO | England | Norfolk | 1943 | 1945 | |
RAF North Killingholme | NK | England | Lincolnshire | 1943 | 1945 | |
RAF North Luffenham | NL | England | Rutland | 1940 | 1997 | Transferred to the British Army and became St George's Barracks. |
RAF North Pickenham | NP | England | Norfolk | 1944 | 1965 | Now a turkey farm and karting circuit |
RAF North Weald | England | Essex | 1916 | 1964 | This is where the VE-Day celebration flypast took off from, with Group Captain Douglas Bader taking the role of 'Lead Fighter'. Now North Weald Airfield. | |
RAF North Witham | NW | England | Lincolnshire | |||
RAF Hospital Northallerton | England | Yorkshire | 1943 | 1947 | Served as the RAF hospital for No. 6 Group (RCAF) | |
RAF Northleach | England | Gloucestershire | 1942 | 1944 | ||
RAF Norton | England | Yorkshire | 1939 | 1965 | ||
RAF Norton Disney | England | Lincolnshire | Originally named RAF Swinderby (but on different site to later flying station), large-capacity bomb storage area | |||
RAF Nuneaton | NU | England | Leicestershire | also known as RAF Lindley | ||
RAF Nuneham Park | England | Oxfordshire | ||||
RAF Nuthampstead | NT | England | Hertfordshire | 1943 | 1954 | (USAAF) |
RAF Nutts Corner | Northern Ireland | County Antrim | 1941 | 1946 | Subsequently, Belfast Airport until 1963. | |
RAF Oakham | England | Leicestershire | ||||
RAF Oakhanger | England | Hampshire | 1966 | 2003 | Satellite communications station now operated by Airbus Defence and Space under a private finance initiative contract for the Ministry of Defence. | |
RAF Oakington | OA | England | Cambridgeshire | 1940 | 1970 | Being developed into Northstowe new town. Runway, taxiways and most buildings have been demolished. |
RAF Oakley | OY | England | Buckinghamshire | 1942 | 1945 | |
RAF Oatlands Hill | England | Wiltshire | 1941 | 1945 | RLG and overspill site for Old Sarum | |
RAF Oban | Scotland | Argyllshire | 1939 | 1945 | Flying boat station at Ganavan Bay. Not to be confused with the present Oban Airport (ex RAF Connel). | |
RAF Okehampton | England | Devon | Also known as Folly Gate | |||
RAF Old Buckenham | OE | England | Norfolk | 1943 | 1945 | (USAAF) |
RAF Old Sarum | England | Wiltshire | 1917 | 1971 | now Old Sarum Airfield | |
RAF Ossington | ON | England | Nottinghamshire | 1942 | 1946 | |
RAF Oulton | OU | England | Norfolk | 1940 | 1947 | |
RAF Ouston | England | Northumberland | 1941 | 1974 | Now Albemarle Barracks (British Army) near Heddon on the Wall. | |
RAF Padgate | England | Lancashire | ||||
RAF Pembrey | Wales | Carmarthenshire | 1940 | 1957 | Now Pembrey Race Track | |
RAF Pembroke Dock | Wales | Pembrokeshire | 1930 | 1957 | ||
RAF Pengam Moors | Wales | South Glamorgan | 1937 | 1953 | (aka RAF Cardiff) | |
RAF Penshurst | England | Kent | 1916 | 1919
1946 |
Became Penshurst Airfield, in operation 1919–36, reopened during WWII | |
RAF Penrhos | Wales | Caernarvonshire | 1937 | 1947 | Established as the Polish Resettlement Centre post-WW2 | |
RAF Peplow | CE | England | Shropshire | 1940 | 1947 | Also known for a short period as RAF Childs Ercall. Later renamed HMS Godwit as a Fleet Air Arm instrument landing school |
RAF Perranporth | England | Cornwall | 1941 | 1945 | ||
RAF Pershore | PR | England | Worcestershire | 1941 | 1978 | also known as RAF Throckmorton, became Royal Radar Establishment RRE Pershore |
RAF Perth | Scotland | Perthshire | 1936 | 1954 | Now Perth (Scone) Airport | |
RAF Perton | England | Staffordshire | 1941 | 1945 | ||
RAF Peterhead | Scotland | Aberdeenshire | 1941 | 1945 | ||
RAF Peterborough | England | Northamptonshire | 1932 | 1964 | ||
RAF Pevensey | England | Sussex | ||||
RAF Pitreavie Castle | Scotland | Fife | 1938 | 1996 | Main building converted to residential use, others demolished. | |
RAF Pocklington | OC | England | Yorkshire | 1941 | 1946 | |
RAF Podington | England | Bedfordshire | 1942 | 1946 | Now Santa Pod Raceway drag strip | |
RAF Polebrook | PK | England | Northamptonshire | 1941 | 1963 | (USAAF) |
RAF Polegate | England | Sussex | 1915 | 1919 | Airship base | |
RAF Port Ellen | Scotland | Argyllshire | 1940 | 1947 | Also known as RAF Glenegedale and RAF Islay, now Islay Airport | |
RAF Portreath | England | Cornwall | After the War part of the airfield became Chemical Defence Establishment Nancekuke (CDE Nancekuke, a Chemical weapons manufacturing facility for VX gas and Sarin gas, (closed in the 1950s). Now RRH Portreath, a remote Radar Head | |||
RAF Portsmouth | England | Hampshire | 1939 | 1949 | ||
RAF Poulton | England | Cheshire | 1943 | 1945 | Used as a satellite of RAF Hawarden. | |
RAF Prawle Point | England | Devon | 1917 | 1919 | Formerly RNAS Prawle Point | |
RAF Prestatyn | Wales | Denbighshire | ||||
RAF Prestwick | Scotland | Ayrshire | 1936 | 2013 | Operations transferred to RAF (U) Swanwick. | |
RAF Pucklechurch | England | Gloucestershire | 1939 | 1959 | Now HM Prison Ashfield | |
RAF Pulborough | England | Sussex | 1940 | 1945 | Emergency Landing Ground | |
RAF Pulham | England | Norfolk | 1918 | 1958 | used for the development of British airships between the wars | |
RAF Quedgeley | England | Gloucestershire | 1939 | 1995 | Site sold and redeveloped as Kingsway Village. | |
RAF Rackheath | RK | England | Norfolk | 1943 | 1945 | (USAAF) Now Rackheath Industrial Estate. |
RAF Radlett | England | Hertfordshire | 1940 | 1945 | Aldenham Lodge Hotel requisitioned as the headquarters of No. 80 (Signals) Wing, not the Handley Page Airfield | |
RAF Ramsbury | RY | England | Wiltshire | 1942 | 1945 | (USAAF) |
RAF Ramsgate | England | Kent | 1940 | 1940 | Also Ramsgate Airport, temporary requisition during the Battle of Britain as dispersals for RAF Manston, re-opened as civil airfield in 1953 and closed in 1968 | |
RAF Ratcliffe | England | Leicestershire | ATA use of Ratcliffe Aerodrome | |||
RAF Rattlesden | RS | England | Suffolk | 1942 | 1945 | (USAAF) |
RAF Rauceby | England | Lincolnshire | No 4 RAF Hospital between 1940 and 1947 – became Rauceby Mental Hospital | |||
RAF Raydon | RA | England | Suffolk | 1942 | 1958 | (USAAF) |
RAF Reading | England | Berkshire | ||||
RAF Rearsby | England | Leicestershire | A former flying club airfield was the base for Taylorcraft Aeroplanes (England) Ltd changed its name to The Auster Aircraft Company Ltd. Subsequently used as a component manufacturer for the automotive industry. | |||
RAF Redhill | England | Surrey | 1937 | 1954 | now Redhill Aerodrome | |
RAF Rednal | England | Shropshire | 1942–1945 | 1945 | now Rednal Airfield | |
RAF Regents Park | England | City of Westminster | No. 1 Aircrew Reception Centre | |||
RAF Renfrew | Scotland | Renfrewshire | 1925 | Opened 1915 as manufacturer's airfield, subsequently a civil airfield (Renfrew Airport) until closure in 1966. RAuxAF 602 Squadron formed 1925. RAF use ceased after WW2. | ||
RAF Rhoose | Wales | South Glamorgan | 1942 | 1952 | Now Cardiff Airport | |
RAF Riccall | RC | England | Yorkshire | 1942 | 1946 | |
RAF Ridgewell | RD | England | Essex | 1942 | 1957 | (USAAF) |
RAF Ringway | England | Cheshire | Formerly and now Manchester Airport | |||
RAF Ripon | England | North Yorkshire | 1916 | 1919 | After 1919, reverted to Ripon Racecourse, but was used sporadically throughout the 1920s for civilian flights | |
RAF Rivenhall | RL | England | Essex | 1943 | 1945 | |
RAF Roborough | England | Devon | 1938 | 1945 | Formerly Plymouth Municipal Aerodrome, now Plymouth City Airport, closed 2020 | |
RAF Rochester | England | Kent | 1938 | 1953 | 1938 location of No 23 Elementary and Reserve Flying Training School.[16] | |
RAF Rochford RAF Southend |
England | Essex | May 1915 | 1945 | Now London Southend Airport | |
RAF Ronaldsway | Isle of Man | 1943 | (HMS Urley, RNAS Ronaldsway), now main Isle of Man airport | |||
RAF Rudloe Manor | England | Somerset | 1940 | 2000 | Formerly RAF Box, also known as RAF Corsham, now MoD Corsham | |
RAF Rufforth | RU | England | Yorkshire | 1942 | 1954 | |
RAF Rustington | England | Sussex | 1917 | 1919 | ||
RAF Saltby | SY | England | Leicestershire | |||
RAF Samlesbury | England | Lancashire | now Samlesbury Aerodrome | |||
RAF Sandtoft | England | Lincolnshire | 1943 | 1955 | ||
RAF Sandy Bay | Northern Ireland | County Antrim | flying boat base on Lough Neagh near Ram's Island | |||
RAF Sawbridgeworth | ZH (day use only) | England | Hertfordshire | 1916 | 1946 | Originally established in WW1 as a Night Landing Ground for 39 (Home Defence) Sqn of the RFC it was operational from April 1916 to November 1918. The location was reused in an enlarged state as an airfield in October 1940 and operational until mid-1946, whence it returned to agriculture. |
RAF Scampton | England | Lincolnshire | 1916 | 2023 | Station closed with no alternative military use proposed. Site expected to be disposed of by the Ministry of Defence. | |
RAF Scarnish | Scotland | Argyllshire | Ground Control Intercept radar station | |||
RAF Scatsta | Scotland | Shetland | 1940 | 1946 | Now Scatsta Airport | |
RAF Scorton | England | Yorkshire | 1939 | 1945 | ||
RAF Sculthorpe | SP | England | Norfolk | 1943 | 1992 | Airfield retained in military use by the MOD and known as the Sculthorpe Training Area. Technical and administrative buildings sold for civilian use and now form Tattersett Business Park. Former military housing refurbished to create Wicken Green Village. |
RAF Sealand | Wales | Flintshire | 1916 | 2006 | Transferred to the Defence Aviation Repair Agency (DARA), now Defence Electronics and Components Agency (DECA). Part of site sold for redevelopment. | |
RAF Sedgeford | England | Norfolk | WW1 night landing ground, site used as airfield decoy during WW2 | |||
RAF Seething | England | Norfolk | 1943 | 1945 | ||
RAF Seighford | YD | England | Staffordshire | |||
RAF Selsey | England | Sussex | 1943 | 1945 | ALG, previously Selsey Airfield | |
RAF Sharnbrook | England | Bedfordshire | Munitions Storage Depot | |||
RAF Sheerness (Aerodrome) | England | Kent | 1918 | 1918 | Emergency Landing Ground | |
RAF Sheerness | England | Kent | 1919 | 1919 | Balloon station | |
RAF Shellbeach | England | Kent | 1918 | 1981 | WWI Emergency Landing Ground | |
RAF Shellingford | England | Oxfordshire | ||||
RAF Shepherds Grove | England | Suffolk | ||||
RAF Sherburn-in-Elmet | England | Yorkshire | 1917 | 1945 | Now Sherburn-in-Elmet Airfield | |
RAF Shipdham | SJ | England | Norfolk | 1942 | 1945 | (USAAF) |
RAF Shobdon | England | Herefordshire | 1940 | 1946 | Now Shobdon Aerodrome | |
RAF Shoreham (WWI) | England | Sussex | 1914 | 1921 | ||
RAF Shoreham (WWII) | England | Sussex | 1940 | 1946 | Wartime requisition of Shoreham Airport | |
RAF Shrewton | England | Wiltshire | 1940 | 1946 | Relief landing ground[17] | |
RAF Sidmouth | England | Devon | 1943 | 1945 | Various hotels requisitioned as The Air Crew Officers School, a convalescent home and a Medical Training Establishment and Depot | |
RAF Silloth | England | Cumbria | 1939 | 1960 | ||
RAF Silverstone | SV | England | Northamptonshire | 1943 | 1947 | Straddles Buckinghamshire border. Now Silverstone International Motor Racing Circuit. |
RAF Skaebrae | Scotland | Orkney | 1940 | 1957 | ||
RAF Skellingthorpe | FG | England | Lincolnshire | 1941–1952 | 1952 | |
RAF Skipton-on-Swale | SK | England | Yorkshire | 1942 | 1945 | |
RAF Skitten | Scotland | Caithness | 1940 | 1945 | ||
RAF Sleap | England | Shropshire | 1943 | 1964 | now Sleap Airfield | |
RAF Snailwell | England | Cambridgeshire | 1941 | 1946 | ||
RAF Snaith | SX | England | Yorkshire | 1941 | 1946 | |
RAF Snetterton Heath | SN | England | Norfolk | 1943 | 1948 | airfield now Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit and Snetterton outdoor market |
RAF Snettisham | England | Norfolk | USAAF Gunnery School/Range | |||
RAF Snitterfield | England | Warwickshire | 1943 | 1946 | ||
RAF Soberton | England | Hampshire | 1940 | Emergency Landing Ground | ||
RAF Somerton | England | Isle of Wight | 1916 | 1919 | Became civil airfield for Saunders-Roe post-war, closed 1951 | |
RAF South Cerney | England | Gloucestershire | 1937 | 1971 | Transferred to British Army and became Duke of Gloucester Barracks. | |
RAF South Witham | England | Lincolnshire | ||||
RAF Southam | England | Warwickshire | 1940 | 1944 | ||
RAF Southrop | England | Gloucestershire | 1940 | 1947 | ||
RAF Spanhoe | UV | England | Northamptonshire | 1944 | 1946 | Also known as Wakerley or Harringworth |
RAF Speke | England | Lancashire | Now hotel complex with aircraft museum, airfield rebuilt on site to south-east and now called Liverpool John Lennon Airport | |||
RAF Spilsby | SL | England | Lincolnshire | |||
RAF Spitalgate | England | Lincolnshire | 1916 | 1975 | (sometimes incorrectly spelled RAF Spittlegate) (formerly RAF Grantham), now Prince William of Gloucester Barracks | |
RAF Squires Gate | England | Lancashire | Now Blackpool Airport | |||
RAF St Angelo | Northern Ireland | County Fermanagh | 1941 | 1947 | Originally no. 18 Satellite Landing Ground, but subsequently a full aerodrome. Now Enniskillen/St Angelo Airport. | |
RAF St Athan | Wales | Vale of Glamorgan | 1938 | 2006 | Renamed MOD St Athan, home to the RAF's No. 4 School of Technical Training, units flying the Grob Tutor and the Special Forces Support Group. | |
RAF St Davids | Wales | Pembrokeshire | 1943 | 1958 | ||
RAF St Eval | England | Cornwall | 1939 | 1959 | ||
RAF Stafford | England | Staffordshire | 1938 | 2006 | Was No. 16 Maintenance Unit (16 MU). Transferred to British Army and became MOD Stafford (Beacon Barracks). | |
RAF Stanbridge | England | Bedfordshire | 1939 | 2013 | Also known as RAF Leighton Buzzard. Site sold for redevelopment, station buildings demolished. | |
RAF Stanley Park | England | Lancashire | Now Blackpool Zoo | |||
RAF Stanmore Park | England | Middlesex | Totally demolished and redeveloped into a civilian housing estate | |||
RAF Stannington | England | Northumberland | ||||
RAF Stansted Mountfitchet | KT | England | Essex | 1943 | 1958 | Now London Stansted Airport |
RAF Stanton Harcourt | ST | England | Oxfordshire | |||
RAF Stapleford Tawney | England | Essex | 1939 | 1945 | now Stapleford Aerodrome | |
RAF Staplehurst | SH | England | Kent | 1943 | 1944 | Prototype ALG/USAAF |
RAF Staverton | England | Gloucestershire | 1936 | 1951 | ||
RAF Steeple Morden | KR | England | Cambridgeshire | 1940 | 1946 | |
RAF Stoke Hammond | England | Buckinghamshire | 1974 | |||
RAF Stoke Orchard | England | Gloucestershire | 1941 | 1945 | ||
RAF Stoney Cross | England | Hampshire | 1942 | 1948 | ||
RAF Stormy Down | Wales | Glamorganshire | 1940 | 1945 | ||
RAF Stornoway | Scotland | Ross and Cromarty | 1941 | 1998 | Opened as civil airport in 1934. Returned to civilian use and became Stornoway Airport. | |
Stow Maries Aerodrome | England | Essex | 1917 | 1940 | Originally opened as an RFC station in 1914 (all titles changed to 'RAF' after 1 April 1918), not used in WW2, now a Heritage Centre and private airfield | |
RAF Stracathro | Scotland | Angus | 1941 | 1948 | ||
RAF Stradishall | NX | England | Suffolk | 1938 | 1970 | now HMP Highpoint prison. |
RAF Stratford | NF | England | Warwickshire | 1942 | 1945 | Formerly RAF Atherstone |
RAF Stravithie | Scotland | Fife | 1941 | 1945 | No. 26 Satellite Landing Ground | |
RAF Strubby | NY | England | Lincolnshire | 1943 | 1972 | |
RAF Sturgate | England | Lincolnshire | 1944 | 1964 | now Sturgate Airfield | |
RAF Sudbury | SU | England | Suffolk | 1944 | 1945 | |
RAF Sullom Voe | Scotland | Shetland | 1939 | 1952 | Flying boat station. Now subsumed by the Sullom Voe oil terminal. | |
RAF Sumburgh | Scotland | Shetland | 1940 | 1946 | Opened as civil airport in 1936, now Sumburgh Airport | |
RAF Sutton Bridge | England | Lincolnshire | 1926 | 1958 | Formerly an Armament Practice Camp established 1 September 1926, from 1932 renamed RAF Sutton Bridge, closed 1958, airfield landsite transferred to the Ministry of Agriculture and continues to be used by the Potato Council as an agricultural experiment station. | |
RAF Sutton on Hull | England | Yorkshire | 1938 | 1961 | ||
RAF Swannington | NG | England | Norfolk | 1944 | 1947 | |
RAF Swanton Morley | SM | England | Norfolk | 1940 | 1995 | Transferred to the British Army and became Robertson Barracks. |
RAF Swinderby | SN | England | Lincolnshire | 1940 | 1993 | Sold in 1995, the technical site is now an industrial estate and domestic site became the village of Witham St Hughs. The airfield remains and is disused. |
RAF Swingfield | England | Kent | 1916-1919 | 1940-1946 | WW1 ELG, reopened as WWII ALG | |
RAF Sydenham | Northern Ireland | County Down | 1939 | 1978 | Opened as civil airfield in 1933. Also known at various times as RAF Belfast, HMS Gadwall, HMS Gannet III, Belfast Harbour Airport, Belfast City Airport, now George Best Belfast City Airport | |
RAF Sywell | England | Northamptonshire | Now Sywell Aerodrome | |||
RAF Tadcaster | England | North Yorkshire | late 1915 | April 1920 | ||
RAF Tain | Scotland | Ross and Cromarty | 1941 | 1946 | Disused airfield within boundaries of the current bombing range. | |
RAF Talbenny | Wales | Pembrokeshire | 1942 | 1946 | ||
RAF Tangmere | England | Sussex | 1917 | 1979 | Now Tangmere Aviation Museum | |
RAF Tarrant Rushton | England | Dorsetshire | 1943 | 1947 | Site returned to agricultural use | |
RAF Tatenhill | VL | England | Staffordshire | 1941 | 1947 | (initially called RAF Crossplains) – see also Tatenhill Airfield |
RAF Tealing | Scotland | Angus | 1942 | 1945 | ||
RAF Teddington | England | Greater London | 1942 | 1963 | See Camp Griffiss | |
RAF Telscombe Cliffs | England | Sussex | 1916 | 1919 | ||
RAF Templeton | Wales | Pembrokeshire | 1942 | 1945 | ||
RAF Tempsford | England | Bedfordshire | 1941 | 1947 | ||
RAF Ternhill | England | Shropshire | 1916 | 1976 | Technical and administrative site transferred to the British Army and became Borneo Barracks, later renamed Clive Barracks. Airfield retained by the RAF for use as a relief landing ground, now used by the Defence Helicopter Flying School. | |
RAF Thatcham | England | Berkshire | 2001 | Now automotive industry research, test and development facility | ||
RAF Thame | England | Buckinghamshire | Now Haddenham Airfield | |||
RAF Theale | England | Berkshire | Now gravel pits | |||
RAF Theddlethorpe | England | Lincolnshire | (former bombing range) | |||
RAF Thetford | England | Norfolk | ||||
RAF Tholthorpe | TH | England | Yorkshire | 1940 | 1948 | |
RAF Thornaby | TB | England | Yorkshire | 1929 | 1958 | now extended Thornaby town housing |
RAF Thorney Island | England | Sussex | 1938 | 1976 | Transferred to the British Army in 1984 and became Baker Barracks. | |
RAF Thorpe Abbotts | TA | England | Norfolk | 1943 | 1956 | (USAAF) |
RAF Throwley | England | Kent | 1916 | 1919 | Allocated as a WWII Emergency Landing Ground, but not used. | |
RAF Thruxton | TX | England | Hampshire | 1942 | 1946 | now Thruxton Motor Racing Circuit |
RAF Thurleigh | England | Bedfordshire | 1936 | 1946 | Converted to RAE Bedford and is now Bedford Autodrome | |
RAF Tibenham | England | Norfolk | 1942 | 1959 | (USAAF) | |
RAF Tilshead | England | Wiltshire | 1925 | 1941 | ||
RAF Tilstock | OK | England | Shropshire | 1942 | 1946 | |
RAF Tipnor | England | Hampshire | 1917 | 1919 | Balloon station | |
RAF Tiree | Scotland | Inverness-shire | 1941 | 1946 | Now Tiree Airport, used as civil airport since 1937. | |
RAF Toome | Northern Ireland | County Antrim | 1943 | 1954 | ||
RAF Hospital Torquay | England | Devon | 1939 | 1942 | RAf Officers' Convalescent Hospital | |
RAF Towyn | Wales | Merionethshire | 1940 | 1945 | ||
RAF Trebelzue | England | Cornwall | pre-WW2 gliding/flying site as 'Big Field' 2 runways laid end-41, declared unsuitable and used as dispersals by RAF St Mawgan during WWII, later a weapons store for the US Navy and still extant | |||
RAF Treligga | England | Cornwall | 1939 | 1955 | Was RN bombing range, now agriculture | |
RAF Truleigh Hill | England | Sussex | ||||
RAF Tuddenham | TD | England | Suffolk | 1943 | 1963 | |
RAF Turnberry | Scotland | Ayrshire | 1917 | 1945 | Used 1917-18 and as a landing ground in the 1930s. Full aerodrome reopened in 1942, now golf and hotel complex. | |
RAF Turnhouse | Scotland | Midlothian | 1916 | 1997 | Now Edinburgh Airport | |
RAF Turweston | TU | England | Buckinghamshire | 1942 | 1945 | Now Turweston Aerodrome |
RAF Twinwood Farm | England | Bedfordshire | 1941 | 1945 | (USAAF from 1944) | |
RAF Tydd St Mary | England | Lincolnshire | (former RFC Aerodrome Tydd St Mary – transferred to RAF in 1918) | |||
RAF Upavon | UA | England | Wiltshire | 1912 | 1993 | Transferred to the British Army and became Upavon Station, Trenchard Lines. |
RAF Upottery | England | Devon | 1944 | 1948 | Although the runways remain the land and remaining buildings are in private ownership. | |
RAF Upper Heyford | UH | England | Oxfordshire | 1918 | 1994 | Site sold, several buildings now in various civilian uses and other areas redeveloped for housing. Several areas and buildings given scheduled or listed status. |
RAF Upwood | UD | England | Cambridgeshire | 1917 | 2012 | Sold for various civilian uses. |
RAF Usworth | England | County Durham | 1916 | 1958 | Sunderland Airport from 1963, redeveloped as Nissan car plant from 1984 | |
RAF Uxbridge | England | London | 1918 | 2010 | Closed as a result of the MOD's Project MoDEL, site sold for redevelopment and majority of station buildings demolished. Operations room now Battle of Britain Bunker museum. | |
RAF Wainfleet | England | Lincolnshire | Bombing range. | |||
RAF Walmer | England | Kent | 1918 | 1919 | ||
RAF Walney Island | England | Lancashire | Barrow/Walney Island Airport | |||
RAF Wanborough | England | Wiltshire | 1941 | 1945 | Relief Landing Ground | |
RAF Warboys | WB | England | Cambridgeshire | 1941 | 1963 | |
RAF Warmwell | XW | England | Dorsetshire | 1937 | 1945 | Airfield site now quarried, technical site now Crossways village |
RAF Warton | England | Lancashire | Originally Warton Aerodrome but, following the extension of two runways in 1940, the site became a satellite station of the RAF Coastal Command located at RAF Squires Gate. During WW2 the airfield was used by the USAAF as BAD2. Following the war the airfield was designated as RAF Warton. In 1947 the main airfield site was purchased and developed by the English Electric Company. Two outlying parts of the Warton site became RAF Lytham and RAF Freckleton. The main site has evolved over many years and is currently known as BAE Systems Warton. | |||
RAF Warwick | England | Warwickshire | 1941 | 1945 | Relief Landing Ground | |
RAF Watchet | England | Somerset | 1937 | 1940 | RAF offshore firing range, Queen Bee launch site | |
RAF Watchfield | England | Oxfordshire | 1940 | 1950 | ||
RAF Waterbeach | WJ | England | Cambridgeshire | 1941 | 1963 | From 1966 to 2013 called Waterbeach Barracks – British Army, Royal Engineers. Closed in March 2013. |
RAF Wath Head | England | Cumberland | 1941 | 1945 | ||
RAF Watnall | England | Nottinghamshire | ||||
RAF Wattisham | WT | England | Suffolk | 1939 | 1993 | Transferred to the British Army's Army Air Corps and became Wattisham Flying Station. |
RAF Watton | WN | England | Norfolk | 1939 | 1976 | All but the airfield demolished to create new housing estate. Site used by the Army, whose Stanford Training Area is nearby. The southern taxiway has been removed, and much of the remaining site is in agricultural use. |
RAF Weeton | England | Lancashire | 1940 | 1970 | Now Weeton Barracks | |
RAF Hospital Weeton | England | Lancashire | ||||
RAF Warrington | England | Lancashire | ||||
RAF Wellesbourne Mountford | WM | England | Warwickshire | 1941 | 1963 | Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield since 1965. |
RAF Wellingore | England | Lincolnshire | 1937 | 1946 | ||
RAF Wendling | England | Norfolk | 1943 | 1945 | USAAF from 1944 | |
RAF West Ayton | England | Yorkshire | 1918 | 1919 | ||
RAF West Drayton | England | Middlesex | 1924 | 1944 | ||
RAF West Freugh | Scotland | Wigtownshire | 1937 | 2001 | Became RAE West Freugh when taken over by the Royal Aircraft Establishment in 1956, now MoD West Freugh with bombing and weapon test Ranges, also training area for maritime/landing operations. | |
RAF West Kirby | England | Merseyside | 1940 | 1957 | training camp on the Wirral Peninsula | |
RAF West Malling | VG | England | Kent | 1917 | 1969 | Became Maidstone Airport in 1930 |
RAF West Raynham | WR | England | Norfolk | 1939 | 1994 | |
RAF Westcott | WX | England | Buckinghamshire | 1942 | 1945 | Became the Rocket Propulsion Establishment (RPE Westcott) |
RAF Westenhanger | England | Kent | 1944 | Folkestone Racecourse | ||
RAF Westgate | England | Kent | 1918 | 1920 | ||
RAF Westhampnett | WQ | England | Sussex | 1940 | 1946 | Satellite of RAF Tangmere, Emergency Landing Ground, now Chichester/Goodwood Airport |
RAF Weston-on-the-Green | England | Oxfordshire | ||||
RAF Weston-super-Mare | England | Somerset | 1939 | 1955 | Opened as civilian airport, now mostly housing, also a heliport and (since 1978) The Helicopter Museum | |
RAF Weston Zoyland | England | Somerset | 1926 | 1969 | ||
RAF West Ruislip | England | Middlesex | 1917 | 1955 | Later USAF/USN, closed 2006 | |
RAF Wethersfield | England | Essex | 1941 | 1970 | USAAF from 1944. Now MDP Wethersfield – MoD Police training base | |
RAF Weybourne | England | Norfolk | 1939 | 1942 | Now the location of the Muckelboro Collection | |
RAF Wheaton Aston | WH | England | Staffordshire | 1941 | 1947 | Post war was used as a camp for Polish immigrants. Now used for pig farming. |
RAF Whitchurch | England | Somerset | See Bristol (Whitchurch) Airport | |||
RAF White Waltham | England | Berkshire | 1938 | 1982 | Now White Waltham Airfield | |
RAF Whitefield | Scotland | Perthshire | 1939 | 1945 | Relief Landing Ground for RAF Perth. | |
RAF Whitley Bay | England | Northumberland | ||||
RAF Wick | Scotland | Caithness | 1939 | 1946 | Now Wick John O'Groats Airport | |
RAF Wickenby | UI | England | Lincolnshire | 1942 | 1956 | |
RAF Wig Bay | Scotland | Wigtownshire | 1940 | 1957 | Flying boat base (Sunderlands) on West side of Loch Ryan, also known as RAF Stranraer. | |
RAF Wigsley | UG | England | Lincolnshire | 1942 | 1958 | Site straddled the border between Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire. Satellite of RAF Swinderby. |
RAF Wigtown | Scotland | Wigtownshire | 1941 | 1948 | ||
RAF Willingale | JC | England | Essex | 1946 | 1959 | See also RAF Chipping Ongar |
RAF Wilmslow | England | Cheshire | 1938 | 1962 | The station was demolished shortly after closing in 1962. During the 1980s the eastern part of the camp was developed with housing by local construction company Jones Homes, forming the 'Summerfields' development. During the early 1990s the A34 bypass of Wilmslow was constructed, which cut the site in two. Between 1996 and 2015 the remaining western part of the site was developed for housing, forming 'The Villas' and 'Regents Park' developments. | |
RAF Wincombe | England | Wiltshire | 1943 | 1977 | Originally the site of a RAF Home Defence Unit (HDU), prior to becoming an intercept station. The site is now farmland, housing developments, and a commercial creamery where some original buildings are still in use. | |
RAF Winfield | Scotland | Berwickshire | 1942 | 1945 | ||
RAF Windrush | UR | England | Gloucestershire | |||
RAF Wing | UX | England | Buckinghamshire | 1942 | 1958 | |
RAF Winkton | XT | England | Hampshire | 1943 | 1944 | ALG |
RAF Winkleigh | England | Devon | 1943 | 1958 | ||
RAF Winterseugh | Scotland | Dumfriesshire | 1941 | 1944 | No. 37 Satellite Landing Ground. | |
RAF Winthorpe | WE | England | Nottinghamshire | 1940 | 1958 | Now Newark Air Museum and Newark Showground |
RAF Witchford | EL | England | Cambridgeshire | 1943 | 1946 | |
RAF Wombleton | UN | England | Yorkshire | 1943 | 1949 | |
RAF Woodbridge | OZ | England | Suffolk | 1943 | 1993 | Transferred to the British Army in 2006 and became MOD Woodbridge, incorporating Rock Barracks and Woodbridge Airfield. |
RAF Woodchurch | XO | England | Kent | 1943 | ALG | |
RAF Woodcote | England | Oxfordshire | 1941 | 1959 | ||
RAF Woodhall Spa | WS | England | Lincolnshire | 1942 | 1964 | |
RAF Woodhaven | Scotland | Fife | 1942 | 1945 | Flying boat annex to RAF Leuchars | |
RAF Woodley | England | Berkshire | ||||
RAF Woolfox Lodge | WL | England | Rutland | 1940 | 1964 | |
RAF Woolsington | England | Northumberland | 1940 | 1945 | Previously RAF Station Newcastle, now Newcastle International Airport | |
RAF Worcester | England | Worcestershire | ||||
RAF Worksop | WP | England | Nottinghamshire | 1943 | 1960 | |
RAF Wormingford | England | Essex | 1943 | 1947 | USAAF from 1944 | |
RAF Worthy Down | England | Hampshire | 1918 | 1938 | Transferred to Royal Navy in 1939 as HMS Kestrel/HMS Ariel II. Now Worthy Down Camp | |
RAF Wortley | England | Yorkshire | ||||
RAF Wratting Common | WW | England | Cambridgeshire | 1943 | 1946 | |
RAF Wrexham | Wales | Denbighshire | 1941 | 1945 | Also known as RAF Borras | |
RAF Wroughton | England | Wiltshire | 1940 | 1972 | Became a Royal Navy Air Yard (RNAY) in 1972, now a depository of the Science Museum | |
RAF Hospital Wroughton | England | Wiltshire | 1941 | 1996 | Demolished in 2004, site sold for redevelopment. | |
RAF Wye | England | Kent | 1916 | 1919 | ||
RAF Wymeswold | WD | England | Leicestershire | 1942 | 1957 | |
RAF Wythall | England | Worcestershire | 1939 | 1959 | ||
RAF Yatesbury | England | Wiltshire | 1917 | 1969 | ||
RAF Yeadon | England | Yorkshire | 1939 | 1947 | now Leeds Bradford Airport | |
RAF York | England | Yorkshire | 1939 | 1946 | Also known as RAF Clifton and RAF Rawcliffe | |
RAF Zeals | England | Wiltshire | 1942 | 1946 |
Chain Home, Chain Home Low, Chain Home Extra Low, ROTOR and tropo-scatter stations
[edit]Notes: Some of the Chain Home Low sites were co-located with the larger Chain Home radars. Chain Home Extra Low equipment was co-located with "Chain Home" and "Chain Home Low" as well as at separate sites, but were of a less permanent nature, usually with mobile equipment.
ROTOR was the post war Radar interception system created from existing radar installations.[18]
NARS, the North Atlantic Radio System, was an extension of the US Distant Early Warning system tropo-scatter communications network.
ACE High provided long-range communications for NATO.
Station | Country | County | Ordnance Survey National Grid | Notes |
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RAF Aird Uig | Scotland | Outer Hebrides | (NB 047390) | ('WIU') CEW R10 ROTOR Radar Station[19] on the Isle of Lewis. |
RAF Anstruther[20][21] | Scotland | Fife | (NO568808) | ('FAT') R3 ROTOR Radar Station near Anstruther, Fife. |
RAF Ash | England | Kent | (TR320586) | Near Woodnesborough |
RAF Ballymartin | Northern Ireland | County Down | Chain Home Low (CHL) | |
RAF Bamburgh | England | Northumberland | CHL 41A/CEW/CHEL Site K157[22] | |
RAF Bard Hill | England | Norfolk | (TG075428) | Coast defence (CD)/Chain Home Low radar station near Holt |
RAF Barnton Quarry | Scotland | Lothian | (NT203748 | ('MHA') Rotor SOC and RSG near Edinburgh |
RAF Bawburgh | England | Norfolk | (TG165080) | ('WRK') former RAF Eastern Sector Control HQ, ROTOR Station and SOC near Norwich |
RAF Bawdsey | England | Suffolk | (TM 347388) | CH, CHEL, ('PKD') R3 GCI (E) ROTOR Radar Station[23] |
RAF Beachy Head | England | Sussex | (TV 590959) | Chain Home Low (CHL)/CD M10, then (('HEB') CEW R1 ROTOR Radar Station)[24] |
RAF Beer Head | England | Devon | (SY 223882) | CHL 13A/CHEL K165[25] |
RAF Bempton | England | Yorkshire | (TA 192736) | near Bridlington, formerly RAF Flamborough Head – later developed as ('RMF') ROTOR R1 CEW station |
RAF Ben Hough | Scotland | Tiree | (NL94874635) | Chain Home Low radar station on summit of Beinn Hough |
RAF Binbrook | England | Lincolnshire | (UBIZ) – NATO ACE High Tropo-scatter LOS microwave terminal | |
RAF Blackhead | Northern Ireland | County Antrim | Chain Home Low | |
RAF Blackpool Tower | England | Lancashire | (SD306357) | Blackpool – AMES No. 64 |
RAF Blackgang | England | Isle of Wight | (SZ505766) | GCI station near Niton |
RAF Bolt Tail | England | Devon | R6 ROTOR Radar Station adjacent to RAF Bolt Head | |
RAF Boniface Down | England | Isle of Wight | ||
RAF Botley Hill Farm | England | Surrey | NATO ACE High Tropo-scatter site | |
RAF Boulmer | England | Northumberland | (NU 240125) | ('EZS') GCI R3 Type 80 ROTOR Radar Station & Control and Reporting Centre in the UK Air Surveillance and Control System |
RAF Brandy Bay | England | Dorsetshire | (SY 8766479827) | Radar and GEE site near Tyneham |
RAF Branscombe | England | Devon | (SY1988) | Chain Home Station CH13[26] |
RAF Brenish[27] | Scotland | Western Isles | (NA9910024250) | Chain Home Radar Station. AMES No. 97[28] |
RAF Bride[29] | Isle of Man | (SC463031) | ||
RAF Brizlee Wood | England | Northumberland | (UBOZ) – NATO ACE High Tropo-scatter site | |
RAF Broad Bay | Scotland | Western Isles | (NB5314034470) | Chain Home Radar Station |
RAF Buchan | Scotland | Aberdeenshire | (NK 113408) | (former ROTOR R3 GCI Radar Station 'GBU') |
RAF Calvo | England | Cumbria | (NY 144545) | ('CAL' ROTOR R8 GCI Radar Station) |
RAF Canewdon | England | Essex | (TQ9094) | Chain Home Radar Station CH22 |
RAF Carsaig | Scotland | Isle of Mull | CHL | |
RAF Castell Mawr | Wales | Anglesey | (SN5369) | Chain Home Station AMES No. 67 |
RAF Chenies | England | Buckinghamshire | (TQ 015997) | ('HAM' R8 GCI ROTOR Station) |
RAF Clee Hill | England | Shropshire | [30] | |
RAF Cleadon | England | County Durham | Chain Home Low and OBOE Station | |
RAF Clett | Scotland | Shetland Islands | GCI Station | |
RAF Cockburnspath | Scotland | Borders | CHL | |
RAF Cocklaw | Scotland | Aberdeenshire | Chain Home Low Radar Station AMES No. 47B, near Peterhead | |
RAF Cold Hesledon | England | County Durham | (NZ 417468) | ROTOR R1 CEW/CHEL Station |
RAF Coldblow Lane | England | Kent | (TQ824584) | (UMAZ) – NATO Ace High Tropospheric scatter site, near Detling |
RAF Collafirth Hill | Scotland | Shetland | LOS (line of sight) microwave site for NATO ACE High. | |
RAF Comberton | England | Worcestershire | (SO 968461) | ('COB' R8 GCI ROTOR Station) |
RAF Crannoch Hill | Scotland | Banffshire | CD/CHL | |
RAF Craster | England | Northumberland | CD/CHL | |
RAF Creignish | Isle of Man | CHL[29] | ||
RAF Cresswell | England | Northumberland | (NZ2974892445) | [31] |
RAF Cricklade | England | Gloucestershire | (SU10459505) | GCI ("Happidrome") Radar Station[32] |
RAF Cromarty | Scotland | Ross and Cromarty | Chain Home Low Radar Station – AMES No. 48A | |
RAF Crosslaw | Scotland | Berwickshire | (CHEL R2 ROTOR Radar Station)[33] | |
RAF Crustan | Scotland | Orkney Islands | CHL | |
RAF Dalby[29] | Isle of Man | (SC2178) | ||
RAF Danby Beacon | England | North Yorkshire | (NZ732097) | CH/ROTOR station near Lealholm |
RAF Deerness | Scotland | Orkney Islands | CHL | |
RAF Donna Nook | England | Lincolnshire | Chain Home Extra Low (CHEL) radar station, now offshore bombing range. | |
RAF Doonies Hill | Scotland | Aberdeen | (NJ 9666 0383) | Chain Home Low Station near Gregness |
RAF Douglas Wood | Scotland | Angus | (NO4862041515) | Chain Home Radar Station near Monikie |
RAF Dover | England | Kent | (TR3368043094) | Chain Home Station CH04[34] |
RAF Downderry | England | Cornwall | CH15 Radar Station | |
RAF Downhill | Northern Ireland | County Londonderry | ||
RAF Drone Hill | Scotland | Borders | (NT8447066535) | Chain Home radar station near Coldingham |
RAF Dry Tree | England | Cornwall | (SW723218) | CH Station Goonhilly Downs |
RAF Dunderhole Point | England | Cornwall | Coastal Defence/Chain Home Low station near Tintagel | |
RAF Dunkirk | England | Kent | (TR076595) | Chain Home station[35] near Faversham |
RAF Dunnet Head | Scotland | Caithness | Coast Defence U-boat (CDU) Radar Station near Thurso | |
RAF Dunwich | England | Suffolk | Chain Home Low Station CHL28A[36] | |
RAF Easington | England | Yorkshire | CHEL (Chain Home Extra Low) near Easington | |
RAF Eorodale | Scotland | Isle of Lewis | (NB53196268) | Chain Home Low Radar Station |
RAF Fair Isle | Scotland | Shetland | CDU station | |
RAF Fairlight | England | Sussex | (TQ 862113) | Chain Home Low Station CHL03A,[37] later 'GWB' R2 CHEL(A) ROTOR Station |
RAF Faraid Head | Scotland | Sutherland | (NC 389714) | ('RAI' R10 CEW Rotor Radar Station) |
RAF Folly | Wales | Pembrokeshire | (SM858195) | CFP Combined filter plot near Nolton |
RAF Foreness Point[38] | England | Kent | (TR 385710) | Chain Home Low Station CHL05A, later 'WJW' ROTOR R2 CHEL |
RAF Formby | England | Lancashire | ||
RAF Fullarton | Scotland | Ayrshire | (R8 GCI ('FUL') Rotor Radar Station). Later RAF Gailes | |
RAF Glenarm | Northern Ireland | County Antrim | ||
RAF Goldsborough | England | Yorkshire | (NZ 830138) | near Whitby – 'JEX' R2 CHEL(A) ROTOR Radar Station |
RAF Great Bromley | England | Essex | (TM104265) | |
RAF Great Orme | Wales | Conwy | near Llandudno | |
RAF Greian Head | Scotland | Barra | ||
RAF Greystone | Northern Ireland | County Down | AMES No. 61 | |
RAF Grutness | Scotland | Shetland Islands | near Sumburgh | |
RAF Hack Green | England | Cheshire | (SJ 647483) | 'HAK' R6 GCI ROTOR Station |
RAF Happisburgh | England | Norfolk | ||
RAF Hartland Point | England | Devon | (SS 237277) | 'HAT' R8 GCI ROTOR Station |
RAF Hawcoat | England | Lancashire | near Barrow in Furness | |
RAF Hawks Tor | England | Devon | near Plymouth | |
RAF Hayscastle Cross | Wales | Pembrokeshire | (SM920256) | CH Type 80 |
RAF High Street | England | Suffolk | (TM411720) | Chain Home Station CH28[39] in Darsham, near Saxmundham IP17 3QD |
RAF Highdown Hill | England | Sussex | Chain Home Low station near Angmering | |
RAF Hillhead | Scotland | Aberdeenshire | (NJ9430061700) | CH Station near Memsie |
RAF Holmpton | England | Yorkshire | (TA365227) | Radar – Support Command – UK Air CCIS – Now open to visitors |
RAF Hope Cove | England | Devon | (SX 716374) | 'HOP' R6 Rotor GCI Control Bunker |
RAF Hopton | England | Norfolk | (TM 540990) | ('TOH' CHEL(B) R2 ROTOR Radar Station) |
RAF Humberstone | England | Lincolnshire | ||
RAF Hythe | England | Kent | ||
RAF Ingoldmells | England | Lincolnshire | ||
RAF Inverbervie | Scotland | Aberdeenshire | (NO 841734) | 'LGZ' CEW R1 ROTOR Radar Station |
RAF Islivig | Scotland | Isle of Lewis | ||
RAF Jacka | England | Cornwall | Chain Home Low station near Portloe | |
RAF Kelvedon Hatch | England | Essex | (TQ 561995) | 'XSL' R4 SOC Metropolitan Sector, later a regional Civil Defence HQ, then a Cold War Government Command Post. Now the Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker |
RAF Kendrom | Scotland | Isle of Skye | Chain Home Low station near Kilmaluag | |
RAF Kete | Wales | Pembrokeshire | Also HMS Harrier (shore establishment) near Dale | |
RAF Kilchiaran | Scotland | Islay | (NR207616) | ('ECK') CHEL R11 ROTOR Radar Station[40] |
RAF Kilkeel | Northern Ireland | County Down | AMES No. 78 | |
RAF Kilkenneth[41] | Scotland | Argyll and Bute | (NL9408045570) | Chain Home radar station near Tiree |
RAF Killard Point | Northern Ireland | Islay | GCI Station, subsite of RAF Bishops Court | |
RAF Kingswear | England | Devon | Chain Home Low | |
RAF Kinley Hill | England | County Durham | Chain Home Low station near Seaham | |
RAF Langley Lane | England | Lancashire | near Goosnargh – ROC Group HQ No 21, UKWMO National War HQ & Rotor SOC. Langley Lane Sector Operation Centre & Filter Room | |
RAF Langtoft | England | Lincolnshire | (('LAT'): R6 GCI ROTOR Radar Station) | |
RAF Loth[42][43] | Scotland | Sutherland | (NC9590009600) | Chain Home radar station near Helmsdale |
RAF Mark's Castle | England | Cornwall | CHL17A, near Land's End | |
RAF Minehead | England | Somerset | ||
RAF Mormond Hill | Scotland | (UMOZ) – LOS microwave TxRx site for NATO ACE High | ||
RAF Mossy Bottom | England | Sussex | Chain Home Low station near Shoreham | |
RAF Mossy Hill | Scotland | Shetland | NATO Ace High Tropo-scatter site | |
RAF Navidale | Scotland | Sutherland | (ND 03750 15800) | CHL and CHEL Radar Station near Helmsdale |
RAF Needles | England | Isle of Wight | CHL/CD | |
RAF Nefyn[44][45] | Wales | Gwynedd | (SH2704037575) | AMES No. 66 |
RAF Netherbutton[46] | Scotland | Orkney | (HY4621104396) | Chain Home radar station[47] near Holm |
RAF Newchurch | England | Kent | (TR0531) | CHL/CD |
RAF North Cairn | Scotland | Dumfries | (NW97107074) | Near Stranraer – AMES No. 60 |
RAF North Foreland | England | Kent | Chain Home Low | |
RAF Northam | England | Devon | (SS4529) | Chain Home Low radar station |
RAF Noss Hil | Scotland | Shetland Islands | (HU3613015575) | Chain Home, AMES No. 54 |
RAF Orby | England | Lincolnshire | GCI station | |
RAF Ottercops Moss | England | Northumberland | (NY944896) | near Otterburn, Northumberland |
RAF Oxenhope Moor | England | Yorkshire | (SE 0141437082) | Radar and GEE site near Halifax |
RAF Oxwich | Wales | South Glamorgan | (CD/CHL) radar station near Swansea | |
RAF Patrington | England | Yorkshire | see RAF Holmpton | |
RAF Pen Oliver | England | Cornwall | Chain Home Low station near The Lizard | |
RAF Pen y Bryn | Wales | Caernarfonshire | Chain Home Low station | |
RAF Pevensey | England | Sussex | (TQ644073) | Chain Home radar station[48] |
RAF Point of Stoer | Scotland | Sutherland | Chain Home Low Radar Station | |
RAF Poling | England | Sussex | (TQ043052) | Chain Home Station CH08,[49] CHEL. First Radar Station to have WAAF operators.[50] |
RAF Port Mor[51] | Scotland | Argyll and Bute | (NL9442) | Advanced Chain Home radar station on Tiree |
RAF Portland | England | Dorsetshire | (CEW R1 ROTOR Radar Station ('NIB')) | |
RAF Prestatyn | Wales | Denbighshire | (SJ079819) | (('SYP') CHEL R11 ROTOR Radar Station)[52] |
RAF Rame Head | England | Cornwall | Chain Home Low station CHL15A[53] | |
RAF Ravenscar | England | North Yorkshire | Chain Home Low Radar Station, later CEW | |
RAF Rhuddlan | Wales | Denbighshire | (SJ012764) | AMES No. 65 |
RAF Ringstead | England | Dorsetshire | (SY751817) | NATO Ace High Tropospheric scatter site near Ringstead Bay |
RAF Roddans Port | Northern Ireland | County Down | Chain Home Low | |
RAF Rodel Park | Scotland | Western Isles | Chain Home Low station near Rodel, Harris | |
RAF Rosehearty | Scotland | Aberdeenshire | CHL and 10 cm Radar Station, also Bombing Range | |
RAF Rye | England | Kent | (TQ968232) | Chain Home radar station – misleadingly located in Brookland, Kent (place named-for, Rye, just across border in Sussex) |
RAF Saligo Bay | Scotland | Argyll and Bute | (NR2116066740) | Islay |
RAF Sandwich | England | Kent | ('YTM') R3 GCI ROTOR[54] near Ash | |
RAF Sango[55] | Scotland | Sutherland | (NC4170067500) | near Durness |
RAF Saxa Vord | Scotland | Shetland Islands | near Unst – (R10 CEW Rotor Radar Station) | |
RAF Scarinish | Scotland | Tiree | (NM032456) | ('FLY') GCI R8 ROTOR Radar Station[56] |
RAF Scarlett[29] | Isle of Man | (SC2566) | ||
RAF Schoolhill | Scotland | Aberdeenshire | (NO9086098180) | Chain Home station[57] near Portlethen |
RAF Seaton Snook | England | County Durham | (NZ 519280) | ('DYR') GCI R3 ROTOR Radar Station[58] |
RAF Sennen | England | Cornwall | (SW376246) | Chain Home Low and GEE Station |
RAF Skaw | Scotland | Shetland Islands | (HP6634016805) | Chain Home and LORAN station near Unst |
RAF Southbourne | England | Dorsetshire | (SZ1591) | Chain Home station |
RAF Shipton | England | Yorkshire | ('KFY') R4 ROTOR Sector Operations Centre & SRHQ 21 / RGHQ 2.1)[59] | |
RAF Shotton | England | County Durham | Chain Home Low station | |
RAF Skendleby | England | Lincolnshire | Chain Home Overseas Low (COL 161), later Chain Home Extra Low Station CHL34A, then 'UPI' ROTOR R3 GCI[60] | |
RAF Snaefell | Isle of Man | (SC397869) | ('MOI') CHEL R11 ROTOR Radar Station[61] | |
RAF Sopley | England | Hampshire | (('AVO') 'R3' GCI ROTOR Station) | |
RAF South Ronaldsay | Scotland | Orkney | CHL / CHEL Radar Station ) AMES No. 50A | |
RAF South Stack | Wales | Anglesey | ||
RAF St Anne's | England | Lancashire | ROTOR site[62] near Blackpool | |
RAF St Bees Head | England | Cumbria | Chain Home Low No. 87A[63] | |
RAF St Cyrus | Scotland | Aberdeenshire | CHL/CD Radar Station -AMES No. 45A | |
RAF St Lawrence | England | Isle of Wight | (SZ530760) | Chain Home station[64] |
RAF St Margaret's Bay | England | Kent | ROTOR site | |
RAF St Twynnells | Wales | Pembrokeshire | (SR94189741) | ('TWY') GCI R6 ROTOR Radar Station |
RAF Staxton Wold | England | Yorkshire | (TA023778) | Chain Home station |
RAF Stenigot | England | Lincolnshire | (TF256827) | near Louth, Lincolnshire – (Chain Home (CH) and ACE High tropo-scatter), still in use for training aerial erectors. |
RAF Stoke Holy Cross | England | Norfolk | (TG257028) | Chain Home station |
RAF Strumble Head | Wales | Pembrokeshire | (SM 887 394) | Chain Home Low radar station |
RAF Swansea Bay | Wales | Glamorgan | Operations/plotting Room | |
RAF Swingate Down | England | Kent | (TR3382343186) | CH Low station near Dover. Also called RAF St Margarets |
RAF Tannach | Scotland | Caithness | (ND3200046900) | Chain Home radar station near Wick |
RAF The Law | Scotland | Angus | Chain Home Low station near Carnoustie | |
RAF Trelanvean | England | Cornwall | (SW762193) | Goonhilly Downs |
RAF Treleaver | England | Cornwall | (SW766174) | (ROTOR: GCI Station)[65] |
RAF Trerew | England | Cornwall | (SW812585) | Newquay – (Chain Home CH18 & ROTOR Radar Station) |
RAF Trevose Head | England | Cornwall | Chain Home Low | |
RAF Trewan Sands | England | Cornwall | (SH322754) | ('TES') R8 GCI ROTOR Radar Station[66] |
RAF Trimingham | England | Norfolk | (TG289382) | Chain Home Extra Low (CHEL)/CD, then 'QLE' CEW R1 ROTOR Radar Station[67] |
RAF Truleigh Hill | England | Sussex | (TQ 226 107) | Chain Home Low Station CHL07B[68] later ROTOR R2 bunker near Bramber |
RAF Ulbster | Scotland | Caithness | near Wick | |
RAF Uxbridge | England | Greater London | NATO ACE High Tropo-scatter site | |
RAF Ventnor[69] | England | Isle of Wight | (SZ568785) | Chain Home CH10, CHL M86, ROTOR Station 'OJC'[70] |
RAF Walton on Naze | England | Essex | Chain Home Low | |
RAF Warden Point | England | Kent | Chain Home Low station on the Isle of Sheppey | |
RAF Wartling | England | Sussex | (TQ653074) | (('ZUN') R3 GCI ROTOR Radar Station) near Bexhill-on-Sea |
RAF Watsness | Scotland | Shetland | Chain Home Low station near Walls. AMES No. 55A | |
RAF Warren | Wales | Pembrokeshire | (SR92459757) | Chain Home station |
RAF West Beckham | England | Norfolk | Chain Home Radar station | |
RAF West Prawle | England | Devon | (SX771374) | CH 14/CHL 14A[71] |
RAF Westburn | Scotland | Aberdeenshire | CD/CHL. AMES No M23 | |
RAF Westcliff | England | Dorsetshire | near Isle of Portland | |
RAF West Myne | England | Somerset | (SS928486) | ('ZEM') CHEL R11 ROTOR Radar Station[72] |
RAF Whale Head | Scotland | Orkney Islands | (HY7590546125) | Chain Home AMES No. 51 on Sanday |
RAF Whitehawk | England | Sussex | Chain Home Low and 10 cm Radar Station near Brighton | |
RAF Whitstable | England | Kent | Chain Home Low | |
RAF Wick | Scotland | Highland | (R8 GCI Rotor Radar Station) | |
RAF Worth Matravers | England | Dorsetshire | (SY967777) | Chain Home and GEE site near Swanage |
RAF Wylfa | Wales | Isle of Anglesey | (SH3522093385) | AMES No. 76 |
Overseas
[edit]Europe
[edit]During the First World War (1914–1918), and for a short period afterwards, there were at least 250 recognised airfields in France that the Royal Flying Corps, Royal Naval Air Service, and Royal Air Force used at various times.[73]
Rest of the world
[edit]Overseas Royal Flying Corps (WWI) and British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (WWII) airfields
[edit]Station | Country | Notes |
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Long Branch Aerodrome – Mississauga, Ontario | Canada | World War I training airfield 1917–1919; industrial land now a vacant brownfield |
Leaside Aerodrome – Toronto | Canada | World War I training airfield 1918–1919; later used by Toronto Flying Club and now industrial area |
Armour Heights Field – Toronto | Canada | World War I training airfield 1917–1919; now residential neighbourhood |
Camp Taliaferro – Fort Worth, Texas | United States | World War I training airfield 1917–1918 |
Malton Airport – Mississauga | Canada | World War II British Commonwealth Air Training Plan facility (No. 1 Elementary Service Flying School) 1940–1942; now Toronto-Pearson International Airport |
Mount Hope Airport – Hamilton, Ontario | Canada | World War II British Commonwealth Air Training Plan facility (No.10 Elementary Flying Training School and No.33 Air Navigation School) 1940–1945; now Hamilton International Airport |
CFB Greenwood – Greenwood, Nova Scotia | Canada | British Commonwealth Air Training Plan RAF Station Greenwood built 1940–1942 and shared with RCAF 1942–1944; transferred to RCAF July 1944 |
CFB Winnipeg – Winnipeg, Manitoba | Canada | British Commonwealth Air Training Plan as RCAF Winnipeg during WWII |
CFB Borden – Borden, Ontario | Canada | British Commonwealth Air Training Plan airfield during WWII and No. 1 Service Flying Training School (SFTS) (until 1946) |
CFB Moose Jaw – Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan | Canada | British Commonwealth Air Training Plan airfield during WWII 1941–1946; home to RAF's No. 32 Service Flying Training School (SFTS) 1942–1946 |
CFB Trenton – Trenton, Ontario | Canada | British Commonwealth Air Training Plan airfield during WWII – RCAF Central Flying School, No. 1 Air Navigation School (to 1942), No. 1 Flying Instructor School, and No. 1 Composite Training School. |
CFB North Bay – North Bay, Ontario | Canada | British Commonwealth Air Training Plan airfield during WWII |
See also
[edit]- Advanced Landing Ground – a type of semi-permanent bases in Kent, France, Belgium, Netherlands and occupied Germany
- Air Ministry Experimental Station
- Chain Home – radar defence system developed during the Second World War
- Class A airfield – airfields constructed to Air Ministry specifications during the Second World War
- List of Battle of Britain airfields
- List of North African airfields during World War II
- List of Royal Air Force Satellite Landing Grounds
- List of V Bomber dispersal bases
Notes
[edit]- ^ Berkshire 1932–1974
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