RAF Inverness

RAF Inverness RAF Longman
Inverness, Highland
RAF Inverness RAF Longman
Coordinates	57.49°N 4.225°W / 57.49; -4.225
Type	Royal Air Force station
Site information
Owner	Air Ministry
Controlled by	Royal Air Force
Site history
Built	1940 (1940)
In use	1940-1945 (1945)
Battles/wars	Second World War
Garrison information
Garrison	RAF Fighter Command
Occupants	No. 13 Group RAF

Royal Air Force station Inverness or RAF Inverness is a former Royal Air Force station located by the Moray Firth in Highland, Scotland. It was also known as RAF Longman.

Station history

Under the command of No. 13 (Fighter) Group, it hosted No. 70 (Signals) Wing Calibration Flight between 17 February 1941 and 25 August 1945.

Operational Squadrons & Aircraft

Unit	From	To	Aircraft	Version	Notes
No. 241 Squadron RAF	Sep 1940	Apr 1942	Westland Lysander	MK. II	Formed from 'A' Flight of 614 Squadron.
No. 289 Squadron RAF	1 May 1939	Sep 1939	Avro Anson	?
No. 309 Polish Fighter-Reconnaissance Squadron			Supermarine Spitfire	Mk. I
No. 526 Squadron RAF	June 1943	1 May 1945	Airspeed Oxford	MK. I	Absorbed into 527 Squadron
No. 527 Squadron RAF	1 May 1945	8 Nov 1945	De Havilland Dominie
No. 598 Squadron RAF	1 Dec 1943	12 Mar 1945	Airspeed Oxford	Mk. II
No. 614 Squadron RAF 'A' flight	8 Jun 1940	5 Mar 1941	Westland Lysander	Mk. II	Became 241 Squadron

Other units

• HQ, No 70 (Signal) Wing Calibration Flight (17 Feb 1941 – 25 Aug 1945)
• No. 14 Group Target Towing Flt (Oct 1941 - 8 Dec 1941)
• No. 1 (Coastal) Engine Control Demonstration Unit (19 Oct - 17 Nov 1943)

Current use

The site is now in use as an industrial estate, which takes up most of the old runway and the rifle range that was also there. The Caledonian Stadium, home to Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C. sits roughly on where the runway ended, albeit, in the Moray Firth, as the base stretched to the then coastline which became reclaimed land in the decades following closure.