Main units: -

No 5 EFTS RLG (17 Jun 1940 - 23 Dec 1941)

No 16 EFTS RLG (Jun 1941 - 9 Jul 1945)

Sub-site, No 21 Maintenance Unit (xx xxx 1945 - 31 Mar 1949)

Location

County: - Staffordshire

Lat/Long:  52:48:38N 01:53:30W

Grid Ref:  SK075253

Height above sea level: 400 ft

Railway Station - Uttoxeter or Rugeley LMS

Control: -

Opened - 1940

No 51 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 14 May 1945)

No 42 Group (14 May 1945 - xx xxx xxxx)

Reduced to Inactive (surplus) status, parented by RAF Fauld - 24 May 1949, until 1 May 1951.

Transferred to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries - 1 May 1951

Notes.

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Main units: -

No 2 SFTS RLG (29 Jun 1940 - 14 Mar 1942)

No 2 (P) AFU RLG (14 Mar - 13 Jul 1942)

No 6 (P) AFU RLG(13 Jul 1942 - 17 Dec 1945)

No 21 HGCU RLG (xx xxx 1944 - xx xxx 1945)

No  6 SFTS det (17 Dec 1945 - 30 Apr 1946)

Location

County: - Oxfordshire

Lat/Long:  51:49:15N  01:31:00W

Grid Ref:  SP332138

Height above sea level: 400 ft

Railway Station - Whitney  GWR

Control: -

Opened - xx xxx 1940

No 23 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Feb 1947)

Abandoned - 1 Feb 1947

Notes.

Its approval for acquisition as the site of a RLG for Upavon was announced on 14 July 1939.

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Main units: -

RLG for CFS (xx Aug 1940 - xx Sep 1941)

A Light Glider Flight, Glider Pilots' Exercise Unit

Location

County: - Wiltshire

Lat/Long:  51:21:23N  01:51:23W

Grid Ref:  SU114618

Height above sea level: 437 ft

Railway Station - Woodborough GWR

Control: -

Opened (civil)- 1935

No 23 Group (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx 1947)

Closed - 1947

Notes.

Its approval for acquisition as the site of a RLG for Upavon was announced on 14 July 1939.

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Main units: -

58 OTU det (20 Mar 1942 - 5 Oct 1943)

309 Sqn det (11 Apr 1942 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 2 Combat Training Wing det  (5 - 15 Oct 1943)

No 2 TEU det (15 Oct 1943 - 12 Jun 1944)

No 9 (P) AFU det (12 Sep - 3 Nov 1944)

Location

County: - Kinross-shire

Lat/Long:  56:12:53N 03:27:30W

Grid Ref:  NO095035

Height above sea level: 420 ft

Railway Station - Kinross LMS

Control: -

Opened - 1942

Fighter Command (xx xxx xxxx - 17 Nov 1944)

Transferred on loan to War Office  - 17 Nov 1944

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site, known as Kinross, for use as a fighter satellite aerodrome was issued in March 1941.  The following month its name was changed to Balado Bridge, presumably to avoid confusion with RAF Kinloss

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Main units: -

Satellite - No 15 SFTS/Kidlington (30 Jun 1941 - 21 Feb 1942)

Satellite - RAF Kidlington (21 Feb - 4 Apr 1942)

Satellite - No 16 OTU/RAF Upper Heyford (4 Apr 1942 - xx xxx xxxx)

HQ No 16 Operational Training Unit (15 Mar - xx Dec 1942)*

2nd Satellite - No 16 OTU/RAF Upper Heyford (15 Dec 1942 - xx xxx xxxx)

Detachment, 170 Sqn (Oct 1942 - Feb 1943)

4 Sqn (1 - 5 Mar 1943)

169 Sqn (1 - 5 Mar 1943)

Satellite - No 21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit (18 - 24 Dec 1944)

*During runway construction at Upper Heyford.

Location

County: - Oxfordshire

Lat/Long:  52:00:08N 02:21:15W

Grid Ref:  SP442341

Height above sea level: 380 ft

Railway Station - Bloxham GWR

Control: -

Opened - xx xxx 1941

No 20 Group (xx xxx 1941 - 21 Feb 1942)

No 70 Group (21 Feb - 4 Apr 1942)

No 7 Group (4 Apr - 11 May 1942)

No 92 Group (11 May - xx xxx xxxx)

Transport Command (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Transport Command, parented by RAF Upper Heyford, being transferred to Bomber Command on 10 June 1950.

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a RLG for Kidlington was issued in March 1940.

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Main units: -

16 EFTS RLG (May 1941 - 9 Jul 1945)

Location

County: - Staffordshire

Lat/Long:  52:48:23N 01:41:00W

Grid Ref:  SK212232

Height above sea level: 300 ft

Railway Station - Burton-on-Trent LMS

Control: -

Opened - xx xxx 1941

No 51 Group (xx xxx 1941 - xx xxx 1945)

Closed - xx xxx 1945

Notes.

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Main units: -

Class One Landing Ground (Apr 1916 - xx xxx 1918)

No 33 Sqn (xx xxx 1916 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 76 Sqn (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

No 4 EFTS RLG (28 Nov 1939 - 9 Jul 1945)

Location

County: - East Yorkshire

Lat/Long:  53:44:08N 00:45:38W

Grid Ref:  SE818278

Height above sea level: 12 ft

Railway Station - Straddlethorpe LNER

Control: -

Opened (WW1) - xx Apr 1916

Closed - xx xxx xxxx

Opened (WW2) - xx Nov 1939

Closed - xx Jul 1945

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a RLG for No 4 EFTS, Brough was issued in November 1939.

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Main units: -

No 3 SFTS RLG (6 Jul 1940 - 1 Mar 1942)

87 Sqn det (Jul - Nov 1940)

No 3 (P) AFU RLG (1 Mar 1942 - 15 Nov 1944)

No 1539 BAT Flt (13 Jul 1943 - 15 Nov 1944)

Sub-Site, No 7 Maintenance Command (1 Dec 1944 - 28 Feb 1950)

Location

County: - Gloucestershire

Lat/Long:  51:46:38N 01:50:00W

Grid Ref:  SP115092

Height above sea level: 521 ft

Railway Station - Foss Cross GWR

Control: -

Opened - xx xxx 1940

FTC (xx xxx xxxx - 15 Nov 1944)

Maintenance Command (15 Nov 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

On 11 April. 1950 it was reduced to Inactive (Surplus status) in Flying Training Command, parented by RAF South Cerney, which ceased on 1 August 1952.

Notes.

Approval for the acquisition of this site as a RLG for South Cerney was announced on 5 May 1939.

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Main units: -

No 1 Group Communication Flight (20 Jul 1941 - 29 Jan 1943, xxx - 15 Feb 1943, 14 Apr - Nov 1945)

Satellite - No 25 Operational Training Unit (14 Nov 1941 - 7 Jan 1943)

RLG - No 16 (Polish) FTS (19 Feb - 17 Aug 1943)

Satellite - No 18 Operational Training Unit (27 Mar 1943 - 15 Nov 1944)

Sub-site, No 35 Maintenance Unit (15 Nov 1944 - xxx 1945)

No 250 Maintenance Unit (12 Jun 1945 - 31 Dec 1946)

Sub-site, No 61 Maintenance Unit (31 Dec 1946 - 13 Jul 1948)

Location

County: - Nottinghamshire

Lat/Long:  53:26:15N 01:02:15W

Grid Ref:  SK642948

Height above sea level: 110 ft

Railway Station - Bawtry LNER

Control: -

Opened - 1941

No 1 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 14 Nov 1941)

No 5 Group (14 Nov 1941 - 1 Sep 1942)

No 93 Group (1 Sep 1942 - 15 Nov 1944)

C & M, Maintenance Command  (15 Nov 1944 - 12 Jun 1945)

Maintenance Command (12 Jun 1945 - xx xxx xxxx)

Parented by RAF Handforth - 13 Jul 1948

Notes

Its approval for acquisition as the site of a satellite for Finningley was announced on 24 July 1939.

It was originally known as RAF Bawtry but this was changed in June 1942 to avoid confusion with HQ, No 1 Group at Bawtry Hall.

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Main units: -

266 Sqn (7 Mar - 12 Mar 1944)

234 Sqn (18 Mar - 29 Apr 1944)

No 3031 Servicing Echelon (18 - 22 Mar 1944)

No 6234 Servicing Echelon (22 Mar - 29 Apr 1944)

41 Sqn (29 Apr - 16 May 1944, 24 May - 19 Jun 1944)

No 6041 Servicing Echelon (29 Apr - 19 Jun 1944)

263 Sqn (19 Jun - 10 Jul 1944)

No 6263 Servicing Echelon (19 Jun - 10 Jul 1944)

No 1024 Servicing Wing (1 Jul - xx Sep 1944)

No 6611 Servicing Echelon (15 Jul - 29 Aug 1944)

611 Sqn (17 Jul - 30 Aug 1944)

275 Sqn (7 Aug - 18 Oct 1944)

Location

County: - Devon

Lat/Long:  50:30:00N 02:48:00W

Grid Ref:  SX710373

Height above sea level: 420 ft

Railway Station - Kingsbridge GWR

Control: -

Opened - 1941

No 10 Group (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - 1947

Notes.

Main units: -

610 Sqn (26 Jun - 14 Dec 1943, 16 May - 24 May 1944)

No 3093 Servicing Echelon (26 Jun - 19 Dec 1943)

Detachments**

16 Sqn (xx xxx 1940 - xx xxx 1941)

317 Sqn (Sep 1941 - xx xxx xxxx)

276 Sqn (Apr - May 1942, c May - Jun 1944)

310 Sqn (c May - Aug 1942)

421 Sqn (30 Jun - 8 Jul 1942)

247 Sqn (xx - xx Aug - 1942)

257 Sqn (c Sep - Dec 1942)

No 10 Gp Communication Flt (Feb - Oct 1943)

616 Sqn (7 Sep - 10 Sep 1943)

415 Sqn (8 May - xx xxx 1944)

275 Sqn (18 Oct 1944 - 14 Feb 1945)

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Main units: -

Satellite, RAF Port Ellen (xx xxx xxxx - 11 Jun 1945)

'G' Flt (24 Dec 1940 - 13 Mar 1941)

119 Sqn (13 Mar - 4 Aug 1941)

246 Sqn (5 Aug 1942 - 30 Apr 1943)

422 Sqn (7 May - 7 Nov 1943)

Location

County: -  Island of Islay

Lat/Long:  55:45:18N  06:17:24W

Grid Ref -

Control: -

Opened: (Satellite, RAF Port Ellen) - xx xxx 1940

No 15 Group (xx xxx 1940 - xx xxx xxxx)

C & M - 23 Oct 1943

Closed: -  11 Jun 1945

Notes

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Aerial photo on Google Maps, 

Main units: -

No 11 SFTS RLG (Nov 1940 - 1 Apr 1942)

No 21 (P) AFU RLG ( Aug 1943 - 1 Feb 1944)

No 5 (P) AFU RLG (1 - 10 Feb 1944)

No 5 (P) AFU RLG (30 Apr - xx Jul 1944)

Location

County: - Shropshire

Lat/Long:  52:43:45N 02:32:15W

Grid Ref:  SJ635145

Height above sea level: 191 ft

Railway Station -

• Cruddington GWR

• Wellington LMS

Control: -

Opened - 1940

No 25 Group (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

Transferred to Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries - 11 Jun 1948

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a RLG for Shawbury was issued in September 1939.

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Main units: -

No 7 EFTS RLG (13 Nov 1939 - 9 Jul 1945)

82nd Airborne Division (Dec 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Leicestershire

Lat/Long:  52:38:00N  01:12:15W

Grid Ref:  SK538048

Height above sea level: 315 ft

Railway Station - Kirkby Muxloe LMS

Control: -

Opened (Civil) - 1935

No 51 Group (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - 1945

Notes.

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Main units: -

No 13 EFTS RLG (4 Jul - 29 Aug 1940)

No 18 EFTS RLG (8 Feb 1941 - Apr 1942)

No 21 EFTS RLG (5 Jul - 15 Dec 1941)

No 123 Gliding School White (by Dec 1943 - Feb 1948)

Location

County: - Berkshire

Lat/Long:  51:29:37N  00:41:39W

Grid Ref:  SP905777

Height above sea level: 50 ft

Railway Station - Maindenhead GWR

Control: -

Opened - 1941

Closed - 21 May 1946

Notes.

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Main units: -

No 11 SFTS RLG (29 Sep 1940 - 14 Mar 1942)

No 11 (P) AFU RLG (14 Mar 1942 - 10 Jan 1944)

Satellite, No 2 Maintenance Unit (10 Jan 1944 - 10 May 1946)

Location

County: - Shropshire

Lat/Long:  52:49:53N

Grid Ref:  SJ541258

Height above sea level: 310 ft

Railway Station - Wem LMS

Control: -

Opened - 1941

2nd Bombardment Wing Substitution Unit (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

Maintenance Command (xx xxx 1944 - 5 Jul 1946)

Closed - 5 Jul 1946

Notes.

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a US Transport or Observation station was issued in May 1943.

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Main units: -

No 59 OTU RLG (4 Aug 1942 - 26 Jan 1944)

Fighter Leaders School RLG (Feb - 16 Oct 1944)

No 56 OTU RLG (15 Dec 1944 -21 May 1945)

Location

County: - Northumberland

Lat/Long:  55:31:30N 01:40:30

Grid Ref:  NU205257

Height above sea level: 80 ft

Railway Station - Chathill LNER

Control: -

Opened - 1942

Closed on transfer to the War Office - 22 Nov 1945

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Fighter Command, parented by RAF Acklington.

Derequisitioned - xx xxx 1949

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a satellite for Milfield was issued in February 1941.

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Main units: -

428th Bomb Sqn USAAF (29 Oct - Nov 1942)

329th Bomb Sqn USAAF (14 Dec 1942 - 15 Jun 1943)

446th Bomb Group USAAF (4 Nov 1943 - 5 Jul 1945)

• 704th Bomb Sqn

• 705th Bomb Sqn

• 706th Bomb Sqn

• 707th Bomb Sqn

Sub-site, No 53 Maintenance Unit (15 Jul 1945 - 24 Nov 1947, 1 Jan 1950 - 22 Oct 1956)

Sub-site, No 94 Maintenance Unit (24 Nov 1947 - 1 Jan 1950)

Location

County: - Suffolk

Lat/Long:  52:25:45N  01:25:15W

Grid Ref:  TM323868

Height above sea level: 130 ft

Railway Station - Beccles LNER

Control: -

Opened - 1942

USAAF (xx xxx 1942 - xx xxx 1945)

Maintenance Command (xx xxx 1945 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a satellite aerodrome for Horham was issued in April 1941.

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Main units: -

Parented by RAF Wroughton (24 Nov 1950 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: -

Lat/Long: 

Grid Ref: 

Height above sea level:  ft

Railway Station -

Control: -

Transferred from the Ministry of Health - 24 Nov 1950

Opened - 24 Nov 1950

Home Command (24 Nov 1950 - xx xxx xxxx)

Retitled RAF Burderop - 1 Sep 1957

Closed -

Notes.

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Main units: -

15 EFTS RLG (Jul 1940 - 9 Jul 1945)

Location

County: - Cumberland

Lat/Long:  54:59:15N  02:59:00W

Grid Ref:  NY368665

Height above sea level: 40 ft

Railway Station - Longtown LNER

Control: -

Opened - 1940

No 51 Group (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - 1945

Notes.

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Main units: -

Satellite, RAF Hullavington (xx xxx 1941 - xx xxx 1943)

No 9 SFTS RLG (May 1941 - 14 Feb 1942)

No 9 (P) AFU RLG (14 Feb -1 Aug 1942)

No 3 FIS (8 Aug 1942 - 1 Oct 1943)

Satellite, RAF Babdown Farm (xx xxx 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 15 (P) AFU RLG (4 Nov 1943 - 19 Jun 1945)

No 1532 BAT Flt det (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

Air Wing, Polish Resettlement Corps (10 Jul 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Wiltshire

Lat/Long:  51:29:20N 02:12:45W

Grid Ref:  ST854767

Height above sea level: 430 ft

Railway Station - Chippenham GWR

Control: -

Opened - 1941

No 23 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 10 Jul 1946)

TTC (10 Jul 1946 - 18 Oct 1948)

Closed and reduced to Inactive status - 18 Oct 1948*

FTC (18 Oct 1948 - xx xxx xxxx)

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Flying Training Command, parented by RAF Hullavington, which ceased on 1 August 1952.

Notes.

Approval for the acquisition of this site as a RLG for Lyneham was announced on 7 September 1939.

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a US Transport or Observation station was issued in May 1943.

*Parented by RAF Hullavington

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Main units: -

Satellite, RAF Wymeswold (1 Jan 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 28 OTU RLG (1 Jan 1943 - 15 Oct 1944)

No 1521 BAT Flt (30 May - 21 Jun 1943)

No 108 OTU ‘C’ + ‘D’ (10 Oct 1944 - 10 Aug 1945)

No 1382 (T) CU RLG (10 Aug 1945 - 31 May 1946)

No 49 Gliding School (May - Sep 1946)

Location

County: - Leicestershire

Lat/Long:  52:49:45N 01:19:30W

Grid Ref:  SK454262

Height above sea level: 290 ft

Railway Station - Kegworth LMS

Control: -

Opened - 1 Jan 1943

No 93 Group (1 Jan 1943 - 10 Oct 1944)

No 44 Group (10 Oct 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Fighter Command, parented by RAF Newton, but by 11 May 1950 it no longer required parenting.

Transferred to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries - xx xxx xxxx

Reverted to inactive status at some point, parented by RAF Wymeswold

No 12 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 15 Oct 1957)

Parenting transferred to RAF Syerston on 15 October 1957, until 14 August 1961 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

No 23 Group (15 Oct 1957 - 14 Aug 1961),

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a satellite for Wymeswold was issued in May 1941.

Following abandonment, RAF Newton maintained bi-weekly inspections.

It is now East Midlands Airport.

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Main units: -

No 22 EFTS RLG (Sep 1940 - 9 Jul 1945)

No 4 FIS RLG (3 Jul 1942 - 30 Apr 1943)

Location

County: - Cambridgeshire

Lat/Long:  52:13:15N  00:05:15W

Grid Ref:  TL754793

Height above sea level: 200 ft

Railway Station - Old North Road LMS

Control: -

Opened - xx Sep 1939

No 50 Group (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed -1945

Notes

Approval for the acquisition of this airfield was issued in September 1939 and allocated to No 22 EFTS as a RLG.

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Main units: -

Various FAA Units (10 Jul 1942 - 1 Apr 1945)

Sub-site, No 11 Maintenance Unit (14 Apr 1945 - 22 Jun 1948)

Location

County: - Dorset

Lat/Long:  51:01:05N 02:30:30W

Grid Ref:  ST642244

Height above sea level: 620 ft

Railway Station - Milborn Port GWR

Control: -

Opened (RNAS) - 1942

Transferred on loan from the Admiralty - 14 Apr 1945

Maintenance Command (14 Apr 1945 - 22 Jun 1948)

Reverted to Inactive status - 22 Jun 1948*

Fighter Command (22 Jun 1948 - 20 Mar 1952)

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Fighter Command, parented by RAF Old Sarum, which ceased on 20 March 1952.

Notes.

*Parented by RAF Old Sarum

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Main units: -

Satellite - No 52 OTU/RAF Aston Down (7 Aug 1942 - 25 Jan 1944)

Fighter Leaders School (15 Jan - 9 Feb 1943)

RLG - No 6 (P) AFU (10 Aug - 18 Oct 1943)

No 60/63 OTUs' Combined Gunnery Sqn (19 Oct 1943 - Feb 1944)

No 3 Tactical Exercise Unit, 'C' Flight (17 Jul - 18 Dec 1944)

Location

County: - Gloucestershire

Lat/Long:  51:48:53N 01:56:23W

Grid Ref:  SP042131

Height above sea level: 826 ft

Railway Station - Cheltenham GWR

Control: -

Opened - 7 Aug 1942 (satellite)

No 81 Group (7 Aug 1942 - xx xxx xxxx)

Fighter Command (xx xxx xxxx - 3 Dec 1945)

Closed on transfer to the Admiralty - 3 Dec 1945

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a satellite for RAF Aston Down was issued in March 1941.

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Main units: -

No 5 SFTS RLG (Oct 1940 - 1 Apr 1942)

No 5 (P) AFU RLG ((1 Apr 1942 - 21 Jun 1945)

No 6 SFTS RLG (30 Apr 1946 - 14 May 1947)

No 6 FTS RLG (19 Aug 1947 - 1 Jun 1951, 19 Aug 1952 - 24 Jul 1961)

Location

County: - Shropshire

Lat/Long:  52:48:45N 02:24:23W

Grid Ref:  SJ725254

Height above sea level: 265 ft

Railway Station - Newport, Shropshire LMS

Control: -

Opened - 1941

Closed -

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Retention status) in Flying Training Command, parented by RAF Ternhill.

It was re-activated as an RLG for No 6 FTS on 19 August 1952.

Notes.

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Main units: -

15 SFTS (11 Jun - 13 Oct 1940)

6 SFTS RLG (16 Nov 1940 - 1 Apr 1942)

No 6 (P) AFU RLG (1 Apr 1942 - 12 Jul 1945)

No 1517 BAT Flt (14 Nov 1942 - 22 May 1945)

No 2862 Sqn, RAF Regiment (6 Jul 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

Sub-Site, No 265 Maintenance Unit (1 Oct - 29 Oct 1945)

Sub-Site, No 3 Maintenance Unit (29 Oct 1945 - 3 Oct 1953)

Satellite, No 6 Maintenance Unit (1 Aug 1946- xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Oxfordshire

Lat/Long:  51:55:23N 01:31:30W

Grid Ref:  SP325253

Height above sea level: 690 ft

Railway Station - Chipping Norton GWR

Control: -

Opened - 1940

FTC (xx xxx xxxx - 31 Aug 1945)

No 40 Group - (31 Aug 1945 - 1 Apr 1954)

It was reduced to Inactive status on 3 October 1953, parented by No 3 MU, which was transferred to RAF Little Rissington on 1 April 1954, until 10 October 1960 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

No 23 Group (1 Apr 1954 - 10 Oct 1960)

Notes.

On 2 February 1939 it was announced that the site had been accepted for use as a relief landing ground for Little Rissington.

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Main units: -

RLG - 27 OTU (xx Aug 1942 - 8 May 1945)

No 1429 (Czech OT) Flt (26 Aug 1942 - 8 Nov 1942)

No 93 Gp Screened Pilots School (xx May 1943 - xxx 1944)

Flight Trials Unit  (28 Apr 1944 - xxx 1946)

Sub-site, No 51 MU (xx Aug 1945 - xx xxx 1946)

Location

County: - Derbyshire

Lat/Long:  52:53:08N 01:41:45W

Grid Ref: SK205325

Height above sea level: 225 ft

Railway Station - Tutbury LMS

Control: -

Opened - 1942

No 91 Group (1 Sep 1942 - xx xxx xxxx)

Maintenance Command (xx xxx xxxx - 20 Sep 1946)

Transferred to the War Office - 20 Sep 1946

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Maintenance Command, parented by RAF Lichfield, until 15 April 1958 when it was transferred to No 16 MU, RAF Stafford, until 25 March 1960 when it was transferred to the War Office.

No 40 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 25 Mar 1960)

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a Fighter Operational Training Unit aerodrome was issued in March 1941.  In May 1941 its use was changed to that of a Bomber OTU satellite.

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Main units: -

No 29 EFTS (13 Sep 1941 - 5 Nov 1947)

No 2 Pupil Pilots' Pool (3 Nov 1941 - 8 Mar 1943)

Location

County: - Wiltshire

Lat/Long:  51:28:43N  01:54:00W

Grid Ref:  SU070756

Height above sea level: 660 ft

Railway Station - Swindon Junction GWR

Control: -

Opened - 1941

No 50 Group (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

FTC (xx xxx xxxx - 5 Nov 1947)

Transport Command (5 Nov 1947 - xx xxx xxxx)

Reduced to Inactive status on xx xxx xxxx, parented by RAF Lyneham, until 27 July 1964 following disposal of all MOD (RAF) assets.

Notes.

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Main units (continued): -

29 Sqn det (Sep 1940 - Mar 1941)

207 Sqn det (Feb -  Mar 1941)

409 Sqn (26 Jul 1941 - 23 Feb 1943, 22 Oct - 17 Nov 1943,19 Dec 1943 - 23 Feb 1944)

No 3063 Servicing Echelon (14 Nov 1941 - 22 Feb 1943, 18 Dec 1943 - 5 Feb 1944)

410 Sqn (2 Feb - 22 Oct 1943)

288 Sqn det (Apr - Apr 1943, 9 - 25 Nov 1943)

264 Sqn (17 Nov - 19 Dec 1943)

No 3070 Servicing Echelon (17 Nov - 18 Dec 1943)

68 Sqn (5 Feb - 1 Mar 1944)

No 3058 Servicing Echelon (5 Feb - 1 Mar 1944)

307 Sqn (2 Mar - 6 May 1944)

No 3133 Servicing Echelon (2 - 22 Mar 1944)

No 2898 Sqn, RAF Regiment (16 Mar - xx xxx 1944)

No 6307 Servicing Echelon (22 Mar - 4 May 1944)

No 17 SFTS RLG (30 Oct 1944 - 26 Jun 1946)

1515 BAT Flt (28 Feb - 1 Jun 1945)

No 19 FTS RLG (1 May 1945 - Jan 1946)

No 107 Gliding School (by  Jun 1945  - Dec 1946)

Satellite, RAF Hemswell (22 Jul 1959 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 142 Sqn (22 Jul 1959 - 24 May 1963)

Location

County: - Lincolnshire

Lat/Long:  53:07:53N 00:29:53W

Grid Ref:  TF005605

Height above sea level: 200 ft

Railway Station - Lincoln LNS & LNER

Control: -

Opened - 1940

Fighter Command (xx xxx xxxx - 13 Nov 1944)

TTC (13 Nov 1944 - 1 May 1945)

FTC (1 May 1945 - 11 Nov 1946)

Maintenance Command (11 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 4 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 5 Jan 1948)

Station abandoned - 5 Jan 1948

Reverted to inactive status on 2 January 1959, parented by RAF Waddington

No 1 Group (2 Jan 1959 - xx xxx xxxx)

Parenting was transferred to RAF Hemswell - 17 Aug 1959

Parenting transferred to RAF Waddington - 1 Oct 1963

Notes.

Main units: -

253 Sqn det (May - Jul 1940)

264 Sqn ‘B’ Flt (2 - 21 Aug 1940)

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Main units: -

Satellite, RAF Wittering (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

23 Sqn (31 May - 12 Sep 1940)

266 Sqn det (Apr - Aug 1940)

133 Sqn (28 Sep - 3 Oct 1941)

Ni 1529 BAT Flt (5 Apr - 7 Dec 1942)

152 Sqn (25 Sep - 30 Sep 1942)

No 1426 (EAC) Flt (12 Mar 1943 - Nov 1945)

116 Sqn det (Mar 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

AFDU satellite (xx xxx 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

349 Sqn (8- 29 Jun 1943)

116 Sqn det (25 Oct - Nov 1943)

288 Sqn (11 Jan - 19 Nov 1944)

658 Sqn(13 Mar - 22 Apr 1944)

Gunnery Research Unit (14 Apr 1944 - 12 Mar 1945)

288 Sqn det (19 Nov 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Northamptonshire

Lat/Long:  52:36:00N 00:30:00W

Grid Ref:  TF015023

Height above sea level: 282 ft

Railway Station - Ketton LNER

Control: -

Opened - 1940

No 12 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Apr 1945)

Flying Training Command (1 Apr 1945 - xxx 1947)

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Flying Training Command, parented by RAF Wittering, but by 25 May 1950 it no longer required parenting.

Transferred to the another Government Department - xx May 1950

Notes.

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Main units: -

Satellite -

No 11 (P) AFU RLG (15 May 1942 - 1 Feb 1944)

No 5 (P) AFU RLG (1 Feb 1944 - 21 Jun 1945)

Location

County: - Shropshire

Lat/Long:  52:38:08N 02:43:45W

Grid Ref:  SJ505045

Height above sea level: 420 ft

Railway Station - Dorrington LMS & GWR

Control: -

Opened - 1942

Fighter Command (xx xxx xxxx - 15 May 1942)

No 21 Group (15 May 1942 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - 21 May 1946

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Flying Training Command, parented by RAF Shawbury, but by 11 May 1950 it no longer required parenting.

From 1 October 1956 parenting of the inactive station was assumed by No 29 MU, RAF High Ercall, until 1 April 1958 on its transfer to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.

No 41 Group (1 Oct 1956 - 2 Jan 1956)

No 40 Group (2 Jan 1956 - 1 Apr 1958)

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a satellite aerodrome for Atcham was issued in October 1940.

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Main units: -

Satellite, RAF Turnhouse (xx xxx 1942 - 1 Feb 1944)

516 Sqn det (xxx 1943 - xxx 1944)

No 2 Gliding School (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

No 244 Maintenance Unit (1 Feb - 15 Aug 1944)

Satellite , RAF Oban (15 Aug 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Argyllshire

Lat/Long:  56:28:00N 05:23:58W

Grid Ref:  NM905351

Height above sea level: 18 ft

Railway Station - North Connel LMS

Control: -

SHQ opened - 1942

No 13 Group (xx xxx 1942 - 1 Feb 1944)

SHQ closed - 1 Feb 1944

No 42 Group (1 Feb - 15 Aug 1944)

No 17 Group (15 Aug 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

Reserve Command (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Reserve Command, parented by RAF Bishopbriggs.

Transferred to Department of Agriculture for Scotland - 8 Jan 1949

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site was issued in April 1941.for use as a one strip landing ground for Fighter Command

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Main units: -

Satellite, RAF Talbenny (xx xxx 1942 - 7 Sep 1943)

304 Sqn (15 Jun - 3 Nov 1942)

304 Sqn (30 Nov 1942 - 2 Apr 1943)

Coastal Command Development Unit (9 Apr - 5 Sep 1943)

Location

County: - Pembrokeshire

Lat/Long:  51:43:00N 05:11:30W

Grid Ref:  SM795065

Height above sea level: 270 ft

Railway Station - Milford Haven GWR

Control: -

Opened - 1943

Transferred to FAA - 7 Sep 1943

Transferred from the Admiralty - xx xxx xxxx

Transferred to the Admiralty - 1 Apr 1947

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a satellite for Talbenny was issued in March 1941.

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Main units: -

Satellite - No 42 OTU/RAF Ashbourne (12 Jun 1942 - 18 Feb 1945)

Sub-site, No 28 Maintenance Unit (28 May 1945 - 23 Aug 1954)

Location

County: - Derbyshire

Lat/Long:  52:58:30N 01:44:30W

Grid Ref:  SK175425

Height above sea level: 580 ft

Railway Station - Clifton LMS

Control: -

Opened - 1942

No 93 Group (12 Jun - 1 Sep  1942)

No 70 Group (1 Sep 1942 - 1 Nov 1943)

No 38 Group (1 Nov 1943 - 21 Mar 1945)

FTC (21 Mar - 28 May 1945)

No 42 Group (28 May 1945 -2 Jan 1956)

Reduced to inactive status on 23 August 1954, parented by No 28 MU, RAF Harpur Hill, until 14 April 1958 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

No 40 Group (2 Jan 1956 - 14 Apr 1958)

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a satellite for Ashbourne was issued in September 1940.

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Main units: -

No 1 Cadet Wing (1 Jul - 22 Aug 1917)

No 6 School of Instruction (1 Nov 1917 - 23 Jan 1918)

No 21 EFTS RLG (20 Oct 1941 - 9 Jul 1945)

No 125 Gliding School (by Aug 1943 - xx xxx 1947)

No 38 Group Communication Flt det (Nov 1943 - 30 Sep 1944)

652 Sqn (25 Mar - 29 Apr 1944)

Location

County: - Buckinghamshire

Lat/Long:  51:35:15N 00:30:45W

Grid Ref:  TQ03086 [sic]

Height above sea level: 225 ft

Railway Station - Denham Golf Club GWR & LNER

Control: -

Opened -

No 11 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 20 Oct 1941)

No 50 Group (20 Oct 1941 - 21 May 1946)

Closed - 21 May 1946

Notes.

Satellite for RAF Northolt

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Main units: -

No 6 EFTS RLG (Nov 1940 - 9 Jul 1945)

Location

County: - Northamptonshire

Lat/Long:  52:12:23N  00:47:15W

Grid Ref:  SP835578

Height above sea level: 365 ft

Railway Station - Piddington LMS

Control: -

Opened - 1940

Closed - 1945

Notes.

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Main units (continued): -

221 Sqn (25 Dec 1941 - 8 Jan 1942)

502 Sqn (12 Jan - 22 Feb 1942)

235 Sqn (31 May - 16 Jul 1942)

No 1525 BAT Flt (13 Jul 1942 - 26 Jun 1945)

143 Sqn (27 Jul - 27 Aug 1942)

812 Sqn (7 Sep - 9 Oct 1942)

254 Sqn (10 Oct - 7 Nov 1942)

407 Sqn (10 Nov 1942 - 16 Feb 1943)

53 Sqn (17 Feb - 17 Mar 1943)

304 Sqn (2 Apr - 7 Jun 1943)

Warwick Training Unit FIt (28 Jun - 3 Jul 1943)*

No 1401 (Met) Flt (25 Aug - 1 Sep 1943)

521 Sqn (1 Sep 1943 - 30 Oct 1944)

Air-Sea Rescue Training and Instructional Section (3 Jul - 13 Oct 1943)

524 Sqn 7(1 - 25 Jul 1944)

855 Sqn (3 - 17 Aug 1944)

855 Sqn (14 Sep - 13 Oct 1944)

No 1693 (GR) Flt (31 May - 11 Aug 1945)

Location

County: - Norfolk

Lat/Long:  52:55:15N 00:39:45E

Grid Ref:  TF788393

Height above sea level: 210 ft

Railway Station - Docking LNER

Control: -

Opened -

No 16 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 21 Sep 1945)

No 54 Group (21 Sep 1945 - 17 Jun 1946)

Parenting of the inactive station was assumed by the RAF School of Administration, RAF Bircham Newton on 21 December 1956, until 1 April 1958 on the transfer of the station to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

No 22 Group (21 Dec 1956 - 1 Apr 1958)

Notes.

The approval of the site for use as a satellite for Bircham Newton was announced on 2 March 1939.

Main units: -

No 1401 (Met) Flt RLG (25 Oct 1941 - 1 Aug 1942)

No 22/1522 BAT Flt (Oct 1941 - Apr 1942)

Detachments**

No 2 ATC det (16 Jun 1943 - by Jul 1945)

ASRTU det ((13 - 20 Oct 1943)

415 Sqn det (8 May - 12 Jul 1944)

*On 25 Jun 1943 the first of two courses (the second began six weeks later) was begun to train 40 ASR crews on Warwicks for service in the Middle East, comprising: -

1. conversion to type

2. training in ASR duties

3. ferry training

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Main units: -

No RAF Units

Location

County: - Caithness

Lat/Long:  58:34:45N 03:43:35W

Grid Ref:  NC993670

Height above sea level: 90 ft

Railway Station - Thurso LMS

Control: -

Transferred to RNAS - xx xxx 1942

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a forward satellite aerodrome for the Skeabrae Sector was issued in June 1941.

Post-war it became the site of a Nuclear Power Station.

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Main units: -

Satellite, RAF Moreton-in-Marsh (xx xxx 1941 - 12 Mar 1943)

No 21 OTU det (21 Oct 1941 - 12 Apr 1943)

Satellite, RAF Chipping Warden (12 Mar 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 12 OTU det (12 Apr 1943 - 7 Jun 1945)

Sub-Site, No 25 Maintenance Unit (1 Jul 1948 - 12 Dec 1949)

No 1 FTS RLG (Jul 1952 - 1 Nov 1954)

Location

County: - Warwickshire

Lat/Long:  52:05:08N 01:28:15W

Grid Ref:  SP363433

Height above sea level: 628 ft

Railway Station - Banbury GWR & LMS

Control: -

Opened - xx xxx 1941

No 91 Group (xx xxx 1941 - 12 Mar 1943)

No 92 Group (12 Mar 1943 - 1 Jul 1945)

Maintenance Command (1 Jul 1945 - 12 Dec 1949)

On 12 December 1949 it was reduced to Inactive (Surplus status) in Technical Training Command, parented by RAF Moreton-in-Marsh.

TTC (12 Dec 1949 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 23 Group (xx Jul 1952 - xx xxx xxxx)

Reduced to inactive status on 1 November1 1954, parented by RAF Moreton-in-Marsh, which was transferred to the CFS, RAF Little Rissington on 20 April 1955, until 1 May 1959 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a satellite for Moreton-in-Marsh was issued in November 1940.

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Main units: -

No 20 OTU RLG (30 Jun 1940 - 24 Jun 1945)

57 Sqn (13 Aug - 1 Nov 1940)

232 Sqn (4 Dec 1940 - 29 Apr 1941)

17 Sqn ‘B’ Flt (17 Apr - 6 Jun 1941, 16 Jun - 27 Jul 1941)

17 Sqn (29 Jul - 16 Sep 1941)

No 19 (P) AFU RLG (May - 31 Jul 1943)

Satellite, No 44 Maintenance Unit (28 Jul 1945 - 15 Dec 1947)

No 105 Storage Sub-Site, No 45 MU (15 Feb - 15 Dec 1947)

Location

County: - Marayshire

Lat/Long:  57:37:30N 03:20:15W

Grid Ref:  NJ200600

Height above sea level: 100 ft

Railway Station - Elgin LNER

Control: -

Opened - 1940

No 91 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 28 Jul 1945)

Maintenance Command (28 Jul 1945 - 15 Dec 1947)

Station abandoned - 15 Dec 1947

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Maintenance Command, parented by No 45 MU, RAF Kinloss.

In August 1949 it was transferred to the Department of Agriculture for Scotland, but in November 1949 reverting to Inactive (Surplus) status in Coastal Command, parented by RAF Kinloss, however by 11 May 1950 it no longer required parenting.

Transferred to the Department of Agriculture for Scotland - xx xxx xxxx

Notes.

The approval of the site for use as a relief landing ground for No 15 FTS, Lossiemouth was announced on 28 March 1939.

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Main units: -

Satellite - RAF Moreton-in-Marsh (15 Oct 1941 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 21 OTU det (12 Apr 1943 - 11 Aug 1945, 6 Oct - 1 Dec 1945)

No 1682 B (D) Training Flt (26 Feb 1944 - 1 Aug 1944)

Sub-Site, No 7 Maintenance Unit (15 Jan - 28 Oct 1946)

RLG - CFS (7 May 1946 - 15 Dec 1955)

No 1 Refresher School (11 Nov 1946 - 17 Dec 1946)

Location

County: - Oxfordshire

Lat/Long:  51:55:45N 01:25:45W

Grid Ref:  SP390258

Height above sea level: 550 ft

Railway Station - Charlbury GWR

Control: -

Opened - 15 Oct 1942

No 91 Group (15 Oct 1942 - 15 Jan 1946)

Maintenance Command (15 Jan - 28 Oct 1946)

No 23 Group (28 Oct 1946 - 28 Oct 1957)

It was reduced to Inactive status on 1 December 1955 in Flying Training Command, parented by RAF Little Rissington, until 28 October 1957, following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a satellite for Moreton-in-Marsh was issued in May 1941.

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Main units: -

No 9 (P) AFU (9 Aug 1942 - 21 Jun 1945)

No 305 FTU (14 Dec 1942 - 30 Apr 1944)

810 Sqn (2 - 4 Apr 1943)

No 1544 BAT Flt (24 Jan - Mar 1944)

No 1680 (T) Flt det (22 Apr - 31 May 1944, Sep - Sep 1944)

No 9 Gliding School (by Sep - Nov 1945)

No 260 Maintenance Unit (xx Jun 1945 - 31 Jul 1948)

Location

County: - Perthshire

Lat/Long:  56:24:10N 03:11:00W

Grid Ref:  NO268242

Height above sea level: 31 ft

Railway Station - Errol LMS

Control: -

Opened -

FTC (xx xxx xxxx - 31 Jul 1945)

No 56 Wing (31 Jul 1945 - 15 Oct 1946)

No 55 Wing (15 Oct 1946 - 31 Jul 1948)

Transferred to Ministry of Civil Aviation - 31 Jul 1948

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a satellite for Kinross (Balado Bridge) was issued in March 1941.

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Main units (WW2) (continued): -

122 Sqn (8 - 29 Jun 1942, 6 - 17 Jul 1942, 16 Nov - 9 Dec 1942)

81 Sqn (17 Jul - 1 Sep 1942)

No 3032 Servicing Echelon (17 Jul - 1 Sep 1942)

154 Sqn (27 Jul - 10 Aug 1942, 15 Aug - 1 Sep 1942)

No 3052 (Czech) Servicing Echelon (11 Nov - 9 Dec 1942)

350 Sqn (15 - 23 Mar 1943)

19 Sqn (5 Apr - 18 May 1943)

182 Sqn (5 - 29 Apr 1943)

247 Sqn (5 Apr - 28 May 1943)

602 Sqn (29 Apr - 1 Jun 1943)

65 Sqn (18 - 31 May 1943)

245 Sqn (28 May - 1 Jun 1943)

239 Sqn ( 21 - 27 Jun 1943, 9 Jul - 14 Aug 1943)

302 Sqn (19 Aug - 18 Sep 1943)

No 3104 Servicing Echelon (19 Aug - 21 Sep 1943)

317 Sqn (21 Aug - 21 Sep 1943)

No 3110 Servicing Echelon (21 Aug - 21 Sep 1943)

164 Sqn (22 Sep 1943 - 4 Jan 1944, 13 Jan - 11 Feb 1944)

195 Sqn (23 Sep 1943 - 15 Feb 1944)

No 136 Airfield HQ (22 Nov 1943 - 6 Apr 1944)

193 Sqn (20 Feb - 15 Mar 1944)

945 (Balloon) Sqn (xxx 1944 - 4 Apr 1945)

970 (Balloon) Sqn (14 Feb - 31 Aug 1945)

998 (Balloon) Sqn (Mar - Sep 1945)

No 24 Balloon Centre (23 Sep 1944 - 15 Apr 1945)

No 146 Gliding School (Oct 1944 - 17 Aug 1946)

No 147 Gliding School (c Mar 1945 - Jan 1946

Location

County: - Essex

Lat/Long:  51:35:30N 00:06:08E

Grid Ref:  WW1 - TQ485913, WW2 - TQ460905

Height above sea level: 85 ft

Railway Station - Fairlop LNER

Control: -

Opened - 1941

Balloon Command (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

No 11 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 15 Jun 1945)

TTC (15 Jun 1945 - 22 Aug 1946)

Closed - 22 Aug 1946

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Technical Training Command, parented by RAF Hornchurch, but by 1 July 1949 had been transferred to another Government department, etc.

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a satellite for RAF Hornchurch was issued in July 1940.

Main units (WW1): -

RNAS Sub-site to Chingford  (xx xxx 1916 - 1 Apr 1918

No 207 Training Depot Station (1 Apr - 10 Jul 1918)

No 54 Training Depot Station (10 Jul 1918 - 10 Jul 1919)

Main units (WW2): -

Satellite, RAF Hornchurch (xx xxx xxxx - 15 Jun 1945)

No 603 (AAF) Servicing Echelon (14 Nov - 15 Dec 1941)

64 Sqn (6 - 22 Feb 1942, 8 Sep - 14 Nov 1942, 2 Jan - 15 Mar 1943)

No 3023 Servicing Echelon (6 - 22 Feb 1942)

No 3079 Servicing Echelon (6 - 22 Feb 1942)

313 Sqn (30 Apr - 8 Jun 1942)

Detachments**

287 Sqn det (31 Dec 1941 - xx xxx 1942)

411 Sqn det (5 - 22 Feb 1942)

308 Sqn det (Aug - Sep 1943)

312 Sqn ‘B’ (2 Sep 1943-  xx xxx xxxx)

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Main units: -

No 8 FTS RLG (12 May 1952 - 30 Sep 1953)

Location

County: - Ross-shire

Lat/Long:  57:45:35N 03:56:10W

Grid Ref:  NH842758

Height above sea level: 25 ft

Railway Station - Fearn HR

Control: -

Opened - 1941

No 23 Group (12 May 1952 - 30 Sep 1953)

Transferred to RNAS - 30 Sep 1953

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a satellite for Tain was issued in September 1940.

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Main units: -

Satellite, RAF Montrose (1 Oct 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 2 FIS RLG (2 Nov 1942 - 13 Sep 1944)

No 5 Gliding School (by  Oct 1944 -  May 1946)

Sub-site, No 243 Maintenance Unit (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx 1951)

Location

County: - Kincardineshire

Lat/Long:  53:56:08N 02:24:15W

Grid Ref:  NH755774

Height above sea level: 200 ft

Railway station - Fordoun LMS

Control: -

Opened - 1942

No 13 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Oct 1943)

No 21 Group (1 Oct 1943 - 25 Oct 1944)

Transferred on loan to War Office (25 Oct 1944 - 6 Nov 1945)

Maintenance Command (6 Nov 1945 - xx xxx xxxx)

On 1 July 1951 it was reduced to Inactive status in Maintenance Command parented by RAF Edzell, until 1 July 1957 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a forward fighter aerodrome in the Peterhead Sector was issued in June 1941.

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Main units: -

Satellite, RAF Kinloss (xx xxx xxxx - 27 Oct 1944)

No 19 OTU RLG (25 Jan 1941 - 22 Oct 1944)

No 19 (P) AFU RLG (25 May - 20 Nov 1943)

Location

County: - Morayshire

Lat/Long:  57:35:53N 03:38:30W

Grid Ref:  NJ019578

Height above sea level: 50 ft

Railway Station - Forres LMS

Control: -

Opened - 1940

Bomber Command (xx xxx xxxx - 27 Oct 1944)

Transferred on loan to War Office (27 Oct 1944 - 1 Nov 1956)

Assumed inactive status on 1 November 1956, parented by RAF Kinloss, until 16 March 1959 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

No 18 Group (1 Nov 1956 - 16 Mar 1959)

Notes.

The approval of the site for use as a relief landing ground for No 14 FTS, Kinloss was announced on 28 March 1939.

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Main units: -

Kenya Pool (4 Sep - 1 Dec 1941)

Pilot and Aircrew Pool, Kenya (1 Dec 1941 - 6 Jul 1942)

'X' Group, No 105 Maintenance Unit (15 May 1942 - 1 Dec 1946)

Satellite, No 165 Maintenance Unit (Jul 1943 - Jun 1944)

No 1 Pre-OTU School (xx xxx 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

Country: - Kenya.

Lat/Long: 

Height Above Sea Level: 

Control: -

AHQ East Africa

Notes

It was temporarily transferred to the Army in mid 1943.

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Main units: -

Satellite, RAF Silloth (1 Jun 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 55 OTU RLG (20 Oct 1943 - 26 Jan 1944)

No 1 (Coastal) Engine Control Demo Unit (17 Nov - 19 Dec 1943)

No 4 TEU ‘B’ Sqn (26 Jan - 21 Mar 1944)

No 3 TEU det (21 Mar - 18 Dec 1944)

281 Sqn det (18 Apr - Sep 1944)

No 6 OTU RLG (xx Jun 1944 - xx Apr 1945)

Navigators' 'W' Holding Course (1 Oct 1944 - 12 Apr 1945)

No 249 Maintenance Unit (27 May 1945 - 15 Aug 1952)

No 60 Maintenance Unit det (31 Jul 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Satellite Storage Site, No 219 Maintenance Unit (4 May 1945 - 20 May 1947)

Location

County: - Cumberland

Lat/Long:  54:52:30N 03:04:30W

Grid Ref:  NY310358

Height above sea level: 241 ft

Railway Station - Carlisle LMS

Control: -

Opened - 1 Jun 1943

No 17 Group (1 Jun 1943 - 4 May 1945)

No 40 Group (4 May 1945 - 23 Jun 1960)

Reduced to inactive status on xx xxx xxxx, parented by No 14 MU, RAF Carlisle, until 23 June 1960 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

Notes.

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a satellite aerodrome for RAF Silloth was issued in September 1941.

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Main units: -

Sub-site, No 11 Maintenance Unit (xx xxx xxxx - 9 Jul 1942, xx xxx xxxx - 30 Nov 1949)

Location

County: -

Lat/Long: 

Height above sea level:  ft

Control: -

Opened -

Transferred to USAAF - 9 Jul 1942

No 42 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 21 Jun 1951)

On 11 January 1950 it was reduced to Inactive (Surplus status) in Maintenance Command, parented by RAF Chilmark, later transferred to No 94 MU, Hockering until 21 June 1951.

Derequisitioned - 21 Jun 1951

Notes.

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Main units: -

No 15 OTU RLG (Sep 1940 - 15 Mar 1944)

No 1516 BAT Flt (12 Dec 1942 - 13 Apr 1943)

295 Sqn RLG (Mar - Oct 1944)

No 1526 BAT Flt 26 Feb - 9 Nov 1944)

Operational  & Refresher Training Unit (1 Mar 1944 - 27 Feb 1945)

Location

County: - Berkshire

Lat/Long:  51:46:53N 00:43:39W

Grid Ref:  SU545773

Height above sea level: 376 ft

Railway Station - Hampstead Norris GWR

Control: -

Opened - 1940

No 6 Group (xx xxx 1940 - xx xxx 1942)

No 91 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Mar 1944)

No 38 Group, Fighter Command (1 Mar 1944 - 22 Jul 1945)

No 38 Group, Transport Command (22 Jul 1945 - 7 Oct 1946)

Transferred to the Admiralty - 7 Oct 1946

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in No 90 Group, parented by RAF Welford, which was changed to RAF Benson on 15 December 1949, which ceased on 15 October 1952.

Notes.

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Main units: -

44 (Reserve) Sqn (13 Nov 1916 - 1 Jun 1917)

68 Sqn (30 Jan 1917 - 21 Sep 1917)

54 (Reserve) Sqn (17 Mar - 1 Jun 1917)

44 Training Sqn (1 Jun - 24 Nov 1917

54 Training Sqn (1 Jun - 12 Dec 1917)

98 Sqn (5Aug - 31 Aug 1917)

26 Training Sqn (22 Sep 1917 - 3 Feb 1918)

64 Training Sqn (12 Dec 1917 - 15 Aug 1918)

85th Aero Sqn USAAS (by 17 Jul 1918 - xx xxx xxxx)

159th Aero Sqn  (‘D’ Flt) USAAS, (by 17 Jul 1918 - xx xxx xxxx),

No 40 Training Depot Station (15 Aug 1918 - 8 May 1919)

No 12 SFTS RLG (Oct 1939 - 1 Apr 1942)

Location

County: - Lincolnshire

Lat/Long:  52:53:00N 00:39:15W

Grid Ref:  SX902325

Height above sea level: 425 ft

Railway Station - Grantham LNER

Control: -

Opened (WW1) - 1916

Closed (WW1) - 1919

Opened (WW2) - 1942

FTC (xx xxx xxxx - 26 Jun 1948)

Transferred to Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries -26 Jun 1948

Notes.

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Main units: -

No 5 EFTS RLG (Dec 1939  - Jun 1940)

1 Sqn det (Aug - Sep 1940)

781 Sqn ‘B’ Flt (17 Feb 1944 - 18 Apr 1945)

Location

County: - Middlesex

Lat/Long:  51:28:15N 00:27:00W

Grid Ref:  TQ075755

Height above sea level: 80 ft

Railway Station - Hayes & Harlington GWR

Control: -

Opened - 1945

Notes

Arrangements were made in December 1939 with Fairey Aviation  for the use of this site as a RLG for No 5 RFTS, Hanworth during the day.

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Main units: -

No 10 FIS RLG (by Jul 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

529 Sqn (16 Aug 1944 - 20 Oct 1945)

Location

County: - Berkshire

Lat/Long:  51:31:45N 00:51:15W

Grid Ref:  SU795823

Height above sea level: 180 ft

Railway Station - Henley-on-Thames GWR

Control: -

Opened - 1940

Closed - 21 May 1946

Notes.

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Main units: -

No 14 EFTS RLG (Aug 1941 - 6 Dec 1943, 28 Nov 1944 - 30 Jun 1945)

No 1 FIS RLG (Sep - 27 Oct 1942)

No 18 (P) AFU RLG (27 Oct - 3 Nov 1942)

No 5 GTS RLG (22 Dec 1943 - 3 Feb 1945)

No 21 FTS RLG (30 Jun 1945 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 41 Gliding School (Jan 1946 - Jun 1947 )

Location

County: - Warwickshire

Lat/Long:  52:21:38N 01:47:08W

Grid Ref:  SK147743

Height above sea level: 450 ft

Railway Station - Knowle & Dorridge GWR

Control: -

Opened - 1941

Closed -1945

Reduced to Inactive status at some point, parented by RAF Wythall, until 18 November 1955, following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a RLG for RAF Honiley was issued in June 1940.

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Main units: -

No 3 EFTS RLG (31 Jul 1940 - 6 Sep 1941)

No 1 BAS RLG (Jan 1942 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 1523 BAT Flt det (Nov - Dec 1942)

Airfield Controllers School RLG (xx xxx - xx xxx 1943

No 1539 BAT Flt RLG (xx xxx - 13 Jul 1943)

School of Flying Contrrol RLG (xx xxx 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Oxfordshire

Lat/Long:  51:41:53N :0:39L00W

Grid Ref:  SU243998

Height above sea level: 230 ft

Railway Station - Kelmscott & Langford GWR

Control: -

Opened - 1942

Closed - 1946

Notes.

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Main units: -

Satellite, RAF Tealing (xx xxx 1942 - 1 Sep 1944)

No 56 OTU ‘E’ and ‘F’ (Apr - Jul 1943)

No 1 CTW (Oct 1943 - 1 Jan 1944)

No 1 TEU RLG (1 Jan - 31 Jul 1944)

Satellite, RAF Errol (1 Sep 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 9 (P) AFU RLG (1 - 13 Sep 1944)

No 2 FIS ‘G’ Flt (13 Sep 1944 - 11 Jul 1945)

Location

County: - Angus

Lat/Long:  56:39:00N 02:38:15W

Grid Ref:  NO610510

Height above sea level: 150 ft

Railway Station - Glasterlaw LMS

Control: -

Opened - 1942

No 13 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Sep 1944)

No 21 Group (C & M) (1 Sep 1944 - 6 Nov 1945)

Maintenance Command (6 Nov 1945 - 7 May 1946)

Transferred to the Ministry of Works - 7 May 1946

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Maintenance Command, parented by RAF Montrose, but on 12 May 1950 this was changed to RAF Edzell.

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a satellite for Tealing was issued in March 1941.

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Main units: -

No 13 Group Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Flight (5 May - 20 Nov 1941)

289 Sqn (17 Nov 1941 - 18 May 1942)

Refresher Flying Training School ( 23 May - 31 Oct 1942)

309 Sqn (10 Mar - 3 Jun 1943)

No 243 Maintenance Unit (10 Feb 1944 - 7 Feb 1952)

No 661 Volunteer Gliding School/Sqn (2 Apr 1967 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Midlothian

Lat/Long:  55:52:27N 03:24:00W

Grid Ref:  NT125635

Height above sea level: 652 ft

Control: -

Opened - 1941

No 13 Group ( xx xxx 1941 - 20 May 1942)

No 23 Group (20 May - 31 Oct 1942)

No 13 Group C & M Party (31 Oct 1942 - xx xxx 1944)

No 42 Group (xx xxx 1944 - 7 Jan 1952)

C & M, RAF Turnhouse (7 Jan 1952 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 12 Group (7 Jan 1952 - xx xxx xxxx)

Notes

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Main units: -

15 EFTS RLG (Jul 1940 - 9 Jul 1945)

Location

County: - Dumfrieshire

Lat/Long:  55:01:15N 03:10:15W

Grid Ref:  NY255702

Height above sea level: 150 ft

Railway Station - Kirkpatrick LMS

Control: -

Opened - 1940

Closed 1945

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a RLG for RAF Carlisle was issued in July 1940.

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Main units (continued): -

412 Sqn (7 Mar - 8 Apr 1943)

175 Sqn (11 - 13 Mar 1943)

181 Sqn (5 Apr - 2 Jun 1943)

602 Sqn (14 - 29 Apr 1943)

182 Sqn (29 Apr - 2 Jun 1943)

183 Sqn (3 - 30 May 1943)

175 Sqn (24 May - 2 Jun 1943)

320 Sqn (30 Aug 1943 - 18 Feb 1944)

613 Sqn (12 Oct 1943 - 11 Apr 1944, 24 Apr - 30 Oct 1944)

305 Sqn (18 Nov 1943 - 30 Oct 1944)

107 Sqn (3 Feb - 30 Oct 1944)

No 417 R&SU (1 Mar - 14 Nov 1944)

No 138 Wg Communication Flt (12 May - 30 Oct 1944)

309 Sqn det (25 - 27 Jul 1944)

No 84 Group Support Unit (21 Nov 1944 - 1 Aug 1945)

609 Sqn (2 Jun - 4 Jun 1945)

451 Sqn (12 Jun - 13 Sep 1945)

No 84 Gp Disbandment Centre (1 Aug - 31 Dec 1945)

No 83 Gp Disbandment Centre (26 Oct - 28 Oct 1945)

Location

County: - Hampshire

Lat/Long:  51:11:00N 01:01:45W

Grid Ref:  SU675435

Height above sea level: 600 ft

Railway Station - Alton SR

Control: -

Opened - 1942

No 38 Wing (xx xxx - 18 Jul 1943)

No 70 Group (18 Jul - 28 Aug 1943)

(C & M) (20 Aug 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 2 Group (28 Aug 1943 - xx xxx xxx)

Fighter Command (xx xxx xxxx - 8 Feb 1946)

Maintenance Command (8 Feb 1946 - 6 Jul 1948)

Closed - 6 Jul 1948 (parented by RAF Odiham)

Fighter Command (6 Jul 1948 - 1 Apr 1961)

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Retention status) in Fighter Command, parented by RAF Odiham, until 15 July 1961 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

No 38 Group (1 Apr - 15 Jul 1961)

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a satellite aerodrome for Aldermaston was issued in September 1941.

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Main units: -

196 Sqn (18 Nov 1943 - 7 Jan 1944)

No 9196 Servicing Echelon (18 Nov - 1 Dec 1943)

No 9620 Servicing Echelon (22 Nov - 1 Dec 1943)

620 Sqn (23 Nov 1943 - 18 Mar 1944)

190 Sqn (5 Jan - 25 Mar 1944)

No 3141 Servicing Echelon (19 Feb - 22 Mar 1944)

No 3144 Servicing Echelon (19 Feb - 18 Mar 1944)

No 6190 Servicing Echelon (22 - 25 Mar 1944)

No 93 Group Screened Pilots Pool (by Apr - Oct 1944)

No 107 OTU (3 May 1944 - 12 Mar 1945)

Air Ambulance School (xx xxx 1944 - 27 Apr 1946)

No 1333 (TS) (12 Mar - 25 Oct 1945)

Radar Flight (xx xxx - 30 Oct 1945)

Sub-site, No 216 Maintenance Unit (15 Nov 1945 - 21 Jan 1946)

Sub-site, No 255 Maintenance Unit (21 Jan 1946 - 5 May 1948) - after station abandoned the following sites were retained: -

• Sick Quarters site

• T2 Hangers, Nos 3 and 4

• Nissen Huts Nos 408 and 409

Location

County: - Leicestershire

Lat/Long:  52:26:23N 01:02:00W

Grid Ref:  SK656015

Height above sea level: 455 ft

Railway Station

• Leicester (passengers) LMS & LNER

• Thurnby (good) LNER

Control: -

Opened - 15 Oct 1943

No 93 Group (15 Oct 1943 - 1 May 1944)

C & M (15 Apr - 1 May 1944)

No 46 Group (1 May 1944 - 15 Nov 1945)

Maintenance Command (15 Nov 1945 - xx xxx xxxx)

Station abandoned - 31 Dec 1947*

Reduced to inactive status at some point, parented by RAF Wymeswold

No 12 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 15 Oct 1957)

Parented transferred to RAF Syerston on 15 October 1957, until 15 September 1960 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

No 23 Group (15 Oct 1957 - 15 Sep 1960),

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a  operational bomber satellite station was issued in November 1941.

It was initially used as relief airfield for Bomber Command airfields undergoing runway construction or unserviceable for other reasons.

*Bi-weekly inspections carried out by Maintenance Command.

On 20 August 1950, parenting was assumed by RAF Wymeswold, Fighter Command, pending disposal.

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Main units: -

Satellite, RAF Wing (7 Sep 1942 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 26 OTU RLG (3 Sep 1942 - 26 Aug 1944)

No 92 Gp Communication Flt (14 Sep 1942 - 15 Jul 1945)

No 1684 (B) Def Training Flt (29 Jun - 17 Jul 1943)

No 92 Group Screened Instructors' School (17 Apr 1944 - 24 Jul 1945)

No 26 OTU RLG (26 Oct 1944 - 30 Nov 1945)

No 91 Group Navigation Instructors' School (24 Jul - 31 Oct 1945)

No 71 Maintenance Unit (15 Jan 1946- 15 Nov 1947)

Location

County: - Buckinghamshire

Lat/Long:  51:57:38N 00:52:00W

Grid Ref:  SP777298

Height above sea level: 385 ft

Railway Station - Wilmslow LMS

Control: -

Opened - 7 Sep 1942

No 92 Group (7 Sep 1942 - 15 Jan 1946)

Maintenance Command (15 Jan 1946 - 31 Dec 1947

Station abandoned - 31 Dec 1947

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Maintenance Command, parented by RAF Bicester.

By 6 July 1949 the station had been transferred to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site, originally known as Winslow, for use as a satellite for Westcott was issued in May 1941.  The name was later changed to avoid confusion with the HQ unit located in the town.

Links to related sites/pages

Main units (continued): -

No 13 APC (20 Nov 1943 - 21 Feb 1945)

312 Sqn (2 - 17 Dec 1943)

306 Sqn (19 Dec 1943 - 1 Jan 1944, 15 - 20 Mar 1944)

331 Sqn (5 - 21 Jan 1944)

332 Sqn (5 - 21 Jan 1944)

268 Sqn (7 - 20 Feb 1944)

66 Sqn (23 Feb - 1 Mar 1944)

308 Sqn (8 - 15 Mar 1944)

602 Sqn (13 - 20 Mar 1944)

485 Sqn (21 - 27 Mar 1944)

315 Sqn (24 - 28 Mar 1944)

129 Sqn (30 Mar - 6 Apr 1944)

198 Sqn (30 Mar - 6 Apr 1944, 22 - 30 Apr 1944)

193 Sqn (6 - 11 Apr 1944)

164 Sqn (11 - 22 Apr 1944)

340 Sqn (15 - 18 May 1944)

329 Sqn (19 May - 23 May 1944)

631 Sqn (10 May 1945 - 11 Feb 1949

20 Sqn (11 Feb - 19 Jul 1949)

No 5 CAACU (16 Sep 1951 - 1 Jan 1958

RAE Short Bros Flt (xx xxx 1954 - 1 Apr 1992)

Test & Eval Establishment (1 Apr 1992 - 1 Apr 1995)

Dev Test & Eval Organisation (1 Apr 1995 - xx Dec 2004)

Location

County: - Marioneth

Lat/Long:  53:48:45N 04:07:15W

Grid Ref:  SH569258

Height above sea level: 18 ft

Railway Station - Talwrn Bach GWR

Control: -

Opened - 1941

No 12 Group (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

C & M (19 Jul 1949 - 30 Jun 1958)

On 21 November 1949 it was reduced to Inactive (Retention) status in Fighter Command, parented by RAF Valley.

Transferred to the Ministry of Supply - 30 Jun 1958

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as an aerodrome was issued in August 1940.

Main units: -

74 Sqn (3 Oct 1941 - 24 Jan 1942)

131 Sqn (8 Feb - 3 Mar 1942, 16 Apr - 16 May 1942)

232 Sqn (15 - 21 May 1942, 8 Jul - 3 Aug 1942 )

41 Sqn (9 - 16 Aug 1942, 20 Aug - 22 Sep 1942, 30 Sep - 5 Oct 1942, 11 Oct 1942 - 25 Mar 1943)

No 1486 (F) Gun Flt (8 Jul - 18 Oct 1943)

No 12 APC (18 Oct 1943 - 21 Feb 1945)

322 Sqn (15 - 30 Nov 1943)

Detachments**

6 AONS (29 Sep 1941 - 17 Jan 1942)

6 AOS (17 Jan - 24 May 1942)

776 Sqn (4 Feb - 28 Jun 1943)

No 60 OTU (Oct 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

168 Sqn (21 Jan - 3 Feb 1944)

302 Sqn (Mar - Mar 1944)

631 Sqn (c Nov 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

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Main units: -

No 24 OTU RLG (27 May 1942 - 24 Jul 1945)

No 1681 (Bomber) Defence Training Flt (8 Mar - 21 Aug 1944)

No 108 Storage Sub-Site (26 Nov 1945 - 22 Sep 1947)

No 10 FTS RLG (15 Jan 1952 - 1 Oct 1953), parented by RAF Pershore

No 9 FTS RLG (1 Oct 1953 - 31 Mar 1954), parented by RAF Wellesbourne Mountford

Location

County: - Gloucestershire

Lat/Long:  52:08:08N 01:45:15W

Grid Ref:  TL170490

Height above sea level: 145 ft

Railway Station -Long Marston GWR

Control: -

Opened - 1942

No 7 Group (xx xxx 1942 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 91 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 26 Nov 1945)

Maintenance Command (26 Nov 1945 - 3 Dec 1947)

Transport Command (3 Dec 1947 - 17 May 1948)

TTC (17 May 1948 - xx xxx 1952), parented by RAF Wellesbourne Mountford

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Technical Training Command, parented by RAF Wellesbourne Mountford.

No 23 Group (xx xxx 1952 - 1 May 1954)

No 40 Group (1 May 1954 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 41 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 21 Jan 1958)

Reverted to Inactive status - 31 Mar 1954, parented by RAF Wellesbourne Mountford, until 21 January 1958, following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this aerodrome for use as a satellite for Honeybourne was issued in July 1940.

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Main units: -

Sub-site, No 11 Maintenance Unit (by Oct 1939 - xx xxx xxxx, 31 Jul 1945 - 15 Jan 1950)

Satellite, RAF Hullavington (xx xxx 1940 - 1 Nov 1943)

RLG - No 9 Service Flying Training School (xx Sep - Nov 1940)

RLG - No 3 Service Flying Training School (xx xxx 1941 - 29 May 1942)

Satellite - No 14 SFTS/RAF Lyneham (xx xxx xxxx - 7 Jan 1942)

RLG - No 3 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit (29 May 1942 - 30 Sep 1943)

RLG - No 15 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit (30 Oct 1943 - 15 May 1945)

Satellite, RAF Babdown Farm (1 Nov 1943 - xx xxx 1945)

Location

County: - Wiltshire

Lat/Long:  51:37:30N 02:06:00W

Grid Ref:  ST929920

Height above sea level: 400 ft

Railway Station - Tetbury GWR

Control: -

Opened - xx xxx 1940

No 23 Group (19 Aug 1941 - 7 Jan 1942)

No 44 Group (14 Jan - 15 May 1942)

No 23 Group (15 May 1942 - 31 Jul 1945)

Maintenance Command (31 Jul 1945 - 24 Mar 1951)

On 26 February 1950 it was reduced to Inactive (Surplus status) in Maintenance Command, parented by RAF Kemble until 24 March 1951.

Station derequisitioned - 24 Mar 1951

Notes

Approval for the acquisition of this site as a RLG for Hullavington was announced on 7 September 1939.

Links to related sites/pages

Main units: -

247 Sqn (11 Oct - 31 Dec 1943)

182 Sqn (12 Oct - 31 Dec 1943, 21 Jan - 1 Apr 1944)

No 2813 Sqn, RAF Regiment (15 Mar - xx xxx 1944)

No 6181 Servicing Echelon (22 Mar - 1 Apr 1944)

No 6182 Servicing Echelon (22 Mar - 1 Apr 1944)

No 6247 Servicing Echelon (22 Mar - 17 Apr 1944)

No 84 Group (Rear) Communication Flt (7 Apr - 12 May 1944)

No 6340 Servicing Echelon (14 Apr - 22 Jun 1944)

329 Sqn (17 Apr - 19 May 1944, 23 May - 22 Jun 1944)

340 Sqn (17 Apr - 15 May 1944, 18 May - 22 Jun 1944)

341 Sqn (17 Apr - 22 Jun 1944)

No 6329 Servicing Echelon (17 Apr - 22 Jun 1944)

No 6341 Servicing Echelon (17 Apr - 22 Jun 1944)

No 421 R&SU (11 May - 22 Jun 1944)

HQ, No 145 Wing (12 May - 22 Jun 1944)

No 145 Wing Communication Flt (12 May - 22 Jun 1944)

80 Sqn (22 - 27 Jun 1944)

274 Sqn (22 - 28 Jun 1944)

No 6080 Servicing Echelon (22 - 27 Jun 1944)

No 6274 Servicing Echelon (22 - 28 Jun 1944)

229 Sqn (24 - 27 Jun 1944)

303 Sqn (26 Jun - 9 Aug 1944)

130 Sqn (27 Jun - 3 Aug 1944)

No 1025 Servicing Wing (27 Jun - 10 Aug 1944)

No 6130 Servicing Echelon (27 Jun - 3 Aug 1944)

No 6303 Servicing Echelon (27 Jun - 9 Aug 1944)

No 1028 Servicing Wing (Jun - 27 Jul 1944)

No 1023 Servicing Wing (Jul - Aug 1944)

No 424 Refuelling and Re-arming Party (19 - 30 Nov 1944)

No 425 Refuelling and Re-arming Party (6 Dec 1944 - 21 Jan 1945)

Location

County: - Sussex

Lat/Long:  50:49:08N 00:44:30W

Grid Ref:  SU885031

Height above sea level: 50 ft

Railway Station - Chichester SR

Control: -

Opened - 1941

Fighter Command (xx xxx xxxx - 13 Nov 1945

Closed on transfer to the Admiralty - 13 Nov 1945

Notes.

Main units: -

145 Sqn (7 May - 28 Jul 1941)

41 Sqn (28 Jul - 16 Dec 1941, 1 Apr - 15 Jun 1942)

ASR Flt (xx xxx - 15 Nov 1941)

No 3021 Servicing Echelon (14 Nov - 16 Dec 1941, 11 Apr - 23 Aug 1942)

131 Sqn (16 May - 24 Aug 1942)

No 3037 Servicing Echelon (28 May - 23 Aug 1942)

412 Sqn (18 Jun - 10 Aug 1942, 14 - 23 Aug 1942)

232 Sqn (25 Jun - 8 Jul 1942)

307th Fighter Sqn USAAF (24 Aug - 22 Oct 1942)

485 Sqn (21 May - 1 Jul 1943)

No 616 (AAF) Servicing Echelon (21 May - 1 Jul 1943)

184 Sqn (31 May - 12 Jun 1943)

174 Sqn (12 Jun - 1 Jul 1943)

402 Sqn (7 Aug - 19 Sep 1943, 27 Jun - 8 Aug 1944)

416 Sqn (9 Aug - 19 Sep 1943)

No 3048 Servicing Echelon (9 Aug - 19 Sep 1943)

No 3051 (RNZAF) Servicing Echelon (21f Aug - 19 Sep 1943)

118 Sqn (24 Aug - 20 Sep 1943)

181 Sqn (8 Oct - 31 Dec 1943, 13 Jan - 6 Feb 1944, 21 Feb - 1 Apr 1944)

HQ 124 Airfield HQ (9 Oct - 31 Dec 1943, 13 Jan - 1 Apr 1944)

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Control: -

Transferred from War Office - 25 Jun 1950

Opened - 25 Jun 1950

No 3 Group (25 Jun 1950 - 12 Apr 1957)

Administrative control transferred to USAF - 25 Jun 1950

Administrative control transferred to Bomber Command - 12 Apr 1957

Reduced to inactive status on 12 April 1957, parented by RAF Bicester, until 1 April 1959 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

No 40 Group (12 Apr 1957 - 1 Apr 1959)

Location

County: -

Lat/Long: 

Railway Station -

Main units: -

Satellite, RAF Upper Heyford (25 Jun 1950 - xx xxx xxxx)

Notes.

Transferred from the War Office for use by the USAF.

Links to related sites/pages

Main units: -

Unbuilt satellite, RAF Lossiemouth (14 Jun 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 20 OTU RLG (14 Jun 1943 - xx Jun 1945)

224 Sqn (9 Sep 1944 - 20 Jul 1945)

No 8224 Servicing Echelon (11 Sep 1944 - 20 Jul 1945)

311 Sqn det (Apr - May 1945)

No 111 OTU RLG (1 Aug 1945 - 21 May 1946)

No 1674 HCU (10 Aug - 14 Nov 1945)

No 663 (V) GS (8 Jul 1973 - 26 Feb 1977)

Location

County: - Morayshire

Lat/Long:  57:40:38N 03:13:38W

Grid Ref:  NJ265655

Height above sea level: 12 ft

Railway Station - Calcots LNER

Control: -

Opened (unbuilt satellite) - 14 Jun 1943

Notes

The approval of the site for use as a relief landing ground for No 15 FTS, Lossiemouth was announced on 28 March 1939, but was eventually requisitioned for the site of a bomber OTU satellite

Links to related sites/pages

Main units: -

20 Sqn (2 - 24 Dec 1936, 7 - 16 Jan 1937, 20 Apr - 14 Aug 1937, 13 May 1938 - 20 May 1939, 29 Aug - 29 Oct 1939)

5 Sqn (6 Mar - 20 Apr 1937)

Bomber Transport Flight (xx xxx xxxx - 10 Mar 1938)

No 19 Care and Maintenance Party (7 May - 27 Jul 1943)

Satellite, RIAF Kohat (xx xxx xxxx - 30 May 1947)

Satellite, RAF Peshawar (30 May 1947 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

Country: - India

Lat/Long: 

Height above sea level:  ft

Control: -

Opened -

Closed -

Notes.

Detachments**

60 Sqn (Mar 1923 - May 1925, Oct 1925 - Mar 1939)

27 Sqn (Apr 1923 - May 1925, Oct 1925 - Sep 1939, Oct 1939 - Feb 1941)

5 Sqn (Jan 1925 - Dec 1928, May 1930 - May 1931, Oct 1935 - Mar 1937, 20 Apr - Feb 1941)

20 Sqn (Jan 1925 - Dec 1936, 14 Aug 1937 - 13 May 1938, 20 May - 29 Aug 1939, 29 Oct 1939 - Mar 1942)

28 Sqn (Dec 1926 - Aug 1930, Apr 1937 - Jun 1942)

11 Sqn (Jan 1929 - Jul 1939)

39 Sqn (Mar 1929 - Aug 1939)

659 Sqn (Jan 1946 - Jan 1947)

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Main units: -

No 61 OTU RLG (15 Apr 1942 - 21 Jun 1945)

No 11 (P) AFU RLG (Nov 1942 - 1 Dec 1943)

No 7 AACU det (Nov 1942 - 30 Nov 1943)

No 6 AACU det (Nov - Nov 1943)

577 Sqn det (1 Dec 1943 - Mar 1944)

No 34 Maintenance Unit (10 Aug 1945 - 30 Jun 1947)

Location

County: - Shropshire

Lat/Long:  52:44:52N 02:51:45W

Grid Ref:  SJ430170

Height above sea level: 265 ft

Railway Station - Shrewsbury LMS & GWR

Control: -

Opened - 1942

No 12 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 8 Aug 1945)

Maintenance Command (8 Aug 1945 - 15 Nov 1947)

Station abandoned - 15 Nov 1947

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Maintenance Command, parented by No 27 MU, RAF Shawbury.

Transferred to Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries - xx xxx 1949

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a Fighter Sector satellite airfield for Atcham was issued in December 1940.  In October 1941 it was decided that it would also be used as a satellite for the OTU at Rednal.

Links to related sites/pages

Main units: -

No 6 AOS det (17 Jan 1942 - 1 Jun 1943)

Pilot Refresher Training Unit (xx xxx xxxx - 1 May 1942)

Refresher Flying Training School (1 - 23 May 1942)

No 83 Gliding School (by May 1944 - 13 Oct 1946)

RLG - No 3 (P) AFU (21 Dec 1944 - 12 Jul 1945)

No 12 (RNZAF) Personnel Reception Centre (21 Jan - 11 Dec 1946)

Location

County: - Gloucestershire

Lat/Long:  51:47:23N 02:17:38W

Grid Ref:  SO796100

Height above sea level: 44 ft

Railway Station - Gloucester LMS & LNER

Control: -

Opened - 1939

No 25 Group (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - 1962

Notes.

Originally know as Haresfield.

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Main units: -

Beam Approach Training Unit (xx xxx xxxx - 28 Jun 1942)

No 72 Operational Training Unit (3 Apr 1942 - 14 May 1943)

No 1340 Flight (Feb - Apr 1954)

283

Location

Country: - Kenya.

Lat/Long: 

Height Above Sea Level: 

Control: -

AHQ East Africa

Notes

It was temporarily transferred to the Army in mid 1943.

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Main units: -

CFS RLG (9 Oct 1940 - 1 Apr 1942)

No 7 FIS RLG (1 Apr 1942 - 17 Dec 1943)

153rd Liaison Sqn, USAAF (13 Mar - 18 Jun 1944)

125th Liaison Sqn, USAAF (9 Jul - 1 Sep 1944)

Location

County: - Wiltshire

Lat/Long: 

Grid Ref:  ST967505

Height above sea level:  ft

Control: -

Opened - 9 Oct 1940

Transferred to the War Office - 17 Dec 1943

Notes.

Still in use (2024) as an Army training area.

Links to related sites/pages

Main units: -

Satellite, RAF Bramcote (7 Feb 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 1513 BAT Flt RLG (xxx 1942 - xxx xxxx)

No 18 OTU RLG (7 Feb - 27 Mar 1943)

No 105 OTU RLG (25 Jun 1943 - 10 Aug 1945)

No 1381 (T) CU RLG (10 Aug - 21 Nov 1945)

TCAEU RLG (Dec 1945 - xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Leicestershire

Lat/Long:  52:33:45N 01:26:45W

Grid Ref:  SP375963

Height above sea level: 378 ft

Railway Station - Nuneaton, Trent Valley LMS

Control: -

Opened - 7 Feb 1943

No 93 Group (7 Feb 1943 - 5 Apr 1943)

No 44 Group (5 Apr 1943 - 21 Sep 1946)

Station abandoned - 21 Oct 1946

Parenting of the inactive airfield was assumed by RAF Castle Bromwich on 27 November 1956, but was transferred to RAF Bruntingthorpe on 31 July 1958 until 1 January 1959.

No 64 Group (27 Nov 1956 - 1 Jan 1959)

Notes.

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a satellite aerodrome for RAF Bramcote was issued in November 1941.

Links to related sites/pages

Main units: -

No 11 OTU RLG (28 Sep 1942 - 18 Sep 1945)

Target Aircraft Development Unit (Mar 1944 - Aug 1945)

Location

County: - Buckinghamshire

Lat/Long:  51:47:00N 01:04:30W

Grid Ref:  SP638103

Height above sea level: 233 ft

Railway Station - Tiddington GWR

Control: -

Opened -

Bomber Command (xx xxx xxxx - 13 Jun 1946)

Loaned to the Ministry of Supply - 13 Jun 1946

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a bomber aerodrome was issued in April 1941.   In May 1941 its use was changed to that of a Bomber OTU satellite.

Links to related sites/pages

Main units: -

239 Sqn det (xx xxx - Jul 1941)

169 Sqn ‘A’ Flt (14 Jun 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

658 Sqn (4 - 30 Aug 1943)

No 43 OTU (17 Feb - 10 Aug 1944)

665 Sqn (17 Mar - 19 Apr 1945)

567 Sqn det (c10 Jul 1945 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Wiltshire

Lat/Long:  51:09:53N 01:52:00W

Grid Ref:  SU090405

Height above sea level: 423 ft

Railway Station - Salisbury  SR & GWR

Control: -

Opened -

No 70 Group (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

SHQ closed - 13 May 1946

Notes.

Links to related sites/pages

Main units: -

16 Sqn ‘C’ Flt (Jun - 30  Jun 1929)

16 Sqn ‘A’ Flt (Jul - 24 Aug 1929, Jun - Sep 1937)

16 Sqn ‘B’ Flt (Jul - Aug 1931, Sep - Nov 1932)

16 Sqn (xxx -.xxx 1935, 3 - 14 Aug 1940)

225 Sqn det (xxx - xxx 1940)

16 Sqn det (xxx 1941 - xxx 1942)

No 73 Maintenance Unit (15 Dec 1942 - 1 Sep 1945)

227th FA Bn US Army (xxx - xxx 1943)

846 Sqn det (12 - 13 Sep 1968, 20 - 27 Nov 1978)

845 Sqn (2 - 6Jul 1973, 22 - 26 Nov 1989)

Location

County: - Devon

Lat/Long:  50:45:08N  04:01:08W

Grid Ref:  SX575974

Height above sea level: 780 ft

Railway Station - Okehampton SR

Control: -

Opened - 1928

No 70 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 15 Sep 1943)

No 40 Group (15 Sep 1943 - 28 Aug 1944)

No 57 Wing (28 Aug 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

Notes.

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a US Transport or Observation station was issued in May 1943.

Links to related sites/pages

Main units: -

16 SFTS RLG (Jul 1941- 1 Nov 1945)

Location

County: - Nottinghamshire

Lat/Long:  52:57:30N 00:50:15W

Grid Ref:  SK780413

Height above sea level: 100 ft

Railway Station - Elston & Orton  LNER

Control: -

Opened - 1941

No 21 Group (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - 1945

Notes.

Links to related sites/pages

Main units: -

CFS RLG (Sep 1940 - 1 Apr 1942)

No 7 FIS RLG (1 Apr 1942 - c Feb 1943)

Location

County: - Wiltshire

Lat/Long:  51:23:19N 01:44:40W

Grid Ref:  SU168655

Height above sea level: 613 ft

Railway Station - Savernake GWR

Control: -

Opened - 1941

No 23 Group (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

Transferred to Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries - 26 Jun 1948

Notes.

Its approval for acquisition as the site of a RLG for Upavon was announced on 14 July 1939.

Links to related sites/pages

Main units: -

No 15 Training Depot Station RLG (Apr 1918 - xx xxx 1919

No 25 EFTS RLG (Jul 1941 - 1 Nov 1945)

Location

County: - Nottinghamshire

Lat/Long:  53:02:45N 01:10:15W

Grid Ref:  SK550510

Height above sea level: 220 ft

Railway Station - Hucknall LMS

Control: -

Opened - 1941

Closed - 1945

Notes.

Links to related sites/pages

Main units: -

78 Sqn det (by 7 Jul 1917 - Sep 1917)

No 2 Wireless School (8 Nov 1917 - 23 Mar 1919

No 15 EFTS RLG (11 Mar - 2 Jun 1940)

268 Sqn (4 - 8 Aug 1941)

653 Sqn (7 Sep 1942 - 13 Aug 1943, 17 Sep - 6 Dec 1943, 17 Dec 1943 - 27 Jun 1944)

661 Sqn (7 Jun - 31Jul 1944)

664 Sqn (3 Feb - 19 Mar 1945)

Location

County: - Kent

Lat/Long:  51:12:00N 00:10:53E

Grid Ref:  TQ518468/188

Height above sea level: 152 ft

Railway Station - Penshurt SR

Control: -

Opened (Satellite, RAF Gatwick) - xx xxx 1942

Coastal Command (xx xxx - xx Oct 1942)

No 35 Wing (xx Oct 1942 - 15 Jul 1943)

No 11 Group (15 Jul 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - 13 May 1946

Notes

The site was also used during WW1 and units based here during that period are included.

Approval for the requisition of this aerodrome for use as a RLG for No 15 EFTS, Redhill, in lieu of Bysshe Court, was issued in January 1940.

Links to related sites/pages

Main units: -

Satellite -

No 41 OTU RLG (1 Mar 1943 - 12 Mar 1945)

No 1515 BAT Flt (1 Nov 1943 - 30 Jan 1945)

No 12 (P) AFU RLG (7 Feb - 21 Mar 1944)

No 3 TEU (c Feb - 26 Mar 1944)

No 58 OTU (12 Mar - 2 Apr 1945)

No 58 OTU RLG (2 Apr - 15 Jun 1945)

Location

County: - Denbighshire

Lat/Long:  53:07:38N 02:53:45W

Grid Ref:  SJ402595/117

Height above sea level: 50 ft

Railway Station - Rossett GWR

Control: -

Opened - 1943

No 70 Group (xx Mar - 1 Nov 1943 )

No 9 Group (1 Nov 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 12 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 15 Oct 1945)

Maintenance Command (15 Oct - xx xxx 1945)

Notes

Originally requisitioned for use as an OTU satellite for Army Co-operation Command.

From 10 October 1952 it was parented by RAF Hawarden in No 63 Group as an inactive station.

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Main units (continued): -

141 Sqn (18 Feb - 30 Apr 1943)

264 Sqn (30 Apr - 7 Aug 1943)

307 Sqn (7 Aug - 9 Nov 1943)

264 Sqn (12 Aug - 17 Nov 1943)

183 Sqn (13 Oct 1943 - 1 Feb 1944)

157 Sqn (9 Nov 1943 - 26 Mar 1944)

304 Sqn (13 Dec 1943 - 19 Feb 1944)

311 Sqn (23 Feb - 7 Aug 1944)

151 Sqn (24 Mar - 7 Oct 1944, 17 May 1945 - 1 Jun 1946))

165 Sqn (3 Apr - 22 Jun 1944)

179 Sqn (24 Apr - 6 Sep 1944)

1 Sqn (29 Apr - 20 Jun 1944)

234 Sqn (19 Jun - 28 Aug 1944)

611 Sqn (3 - 17 Jul 1944)

264 Sqn (24 Sep - 30 Nov 1944)

604 Sqn (24 Sep - 4 Dec 1944)

33 Sqn (15 Dec 1944 - 20 Feb 1945)

222 Sqn (17 Dec 1944 - 21 Feb 1945)

349 Sqn (21 Feb - 19 Apr 1945)

485 Sqn (25 Feb - 19 Apr 1945)

406 Sqn (14 Jun - 31 Aug 1945)

738 Sqn RLG (12 Jan - Nov 1953)

815 Sqn (6 - 8 Sep1 1966)

No 626 Volunteer Gliding School/Sqn (c 1969 - xx Nov 1990, by Oct 2009 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Cornwall

Lat/Long:  50:00:00N 05:13:45W

Grid Ref:  SW468164/203

Height above sea level:  ft

Railway Station - Helston GWR

Control: -

Opened - 1941

Closed -

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Retention status) in Coastal Command, parented by RAF St Eval, until 15 December 1958 on transfer of all assets to the Admiralty.

No 19 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 15 Dec 1958)

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site (known as Mullion) for use as a satellite for RAF Portreath was issued in July 1940.

Main units: -

600 Sqn (6 Oct 1941 - 1 Sep 1942)

No 1457 (F) Flt (15 Nov 1941 - 2 Sep 1942)

234 Sqn (24 - 31 Dec 1941)

536 Sqn (2 Sep - 27 Oct 1942)

406 Sqn (4 Sep - 8 Dec 1942)

66 Sqn (26 - 29 Sep 1942)

604 Sqn (7 Dec 1942 - 18 Feb 1943)

64 Sqn (9 Dec 1942 - 2 Jan 1943)

248 Sqn (18 Jan 1943 - 16 Feb 1944)

Detachments**

600 Sqn (Jun 1941 6 Oct 1941)

59 Sqn (xx - xx Mar 1942)

407 Sqn (Mar - Mar 1942)

247 Sqn (17 May -  Aug 1942)

165 Sqn (c Aug - Oct 1942)

234 Sqn (c Sep - Oct 1942)

165 Sqn (Oct 1942 - xx xxx xxxx)

415 Sqn (4 Dec 1942 - 13 Jan 1943)

414 Sqn (c Feb 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

406 Sqn (14 Apr 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

25 Sqn (5 Jun 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

410 Sqn (5 Jun 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

456 Sqn (5 Jun - 8 Jul 1943)

307 Sqn (xx xxx xxxx - 7 Aug 1943)

618 Sqn (4 Oct - Nov 1943)

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Detachment, No 54 Air Sea Rescue Marine Craft Unit (xx xxx 1942 - 15 Jun 1946)

No 1106 Marine Craft Base Unit (15 Jun - 1 Jul 1946)

No 1106 Marine Craft Unit (1 Jul 1946 - 1 Apr 1948)

*Parented by RAF Jurby.

Location

County: - Isle of Man

Lat/Long: 

Height above sea level:  ft

Control: -

Opened -

No 15 Group (xx xxx xxx - xx xxx xxxx)

Coastal Command (xx xxx xxxx - 3 May 1948)

FTC (3 May 1948 - xx xxx xxxx)*

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Retention status) in Flying Training Command, parented by RAF Jurby.

Closed -

Notes.

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Satellite, RAF Llandow (xx xxx 1942 - 7 Feb 1944)

No 53 OTU ‘B’ Flt RLG (7 Apr 1942 -9 May 1943)

Satellite, RAF Stormy Down (7 Feb 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 7 AGS RLG (7 Feb - 2 Aug 1944)

No 65 Gliding School (May 1944 - Mar 1947)

No 59 Maintenance Unit (15 Apr 1946 - 29 Feb 1952)

Location

County: - Glamorganshire

Lat/Long:  51:23:45N 03:20:45W

Grid Ref:  ST064675/170

Height above sea level: 200 ft

Railway Station - Rhoose GWR

Control: -

Opened - 1942

No 44 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 7 Feb 1944)

C & M (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

No 25 Group (7 Feb - 1 Nov 1944)

Maintenance Command (1 Nov 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a satellite for Llandow was issued in March 1941.

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Main Units: -

Sub-site, No 95 Maintenance Unit (xx xxx xxxx - 27 Jan 1948, 1 Oct 1949 - 15 Aug 1950, xx xxx 1951 - 1 Feb 1955)

Sub-site, No 94 Maintenance Unit (27 Jan 1948 - 1 Oct 1949)

Sub-site, No 217 Maintenance Unit (1 Feb 1955 - 31 Aug 1959)

Location

County: - Bedfordshire

Lat/Long: 

Control: -

Opened -

No 42 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 2 Jan 1956)

No 40 Group (2 Jan 1956 - xx xxx xxxx)

Reduced to inactive status on 31 August 1959, parented by No 217 MU, RAF Cardington.

Notes.

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Main units: -

Various small detachments (xxx 1940 - xxx 1946)

845 Sqn det 4 (4 Sep - 12 Sep 1978)

846 Sqn det 3 (24 Apr - 5 May 1983)

819 Sqn det (28 May - 1 Jun 1984, 22 Jul - 26 Jul 1985)

Location

County: - Shetlands

Lat/Long:  60:26:00N 01:17:45W

Grid Ref:  HU388725/3

Height above sea level: 20 ft

Railway Station - Aberdeen LMS & LNER

Control: -

Opened - xx xxx 1940

Closed - xx xxx 1946

Notes.

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Main units: -

Location

Country: - Aden

Lat/Long: 

Height above sea level:  ft

Control: -

Transferred from the Royal Navy - 15 Jan 1947

Closed -

Notes.

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Main units: -

81 Sqn/1 Sqn CAF (Mar 1919 - 1 Feb 1920)

16 E&RFTS (3 Jul 1937 - 3 Sep 1939)

No 6 CANS (26 May 1938 - 15 May 1939)

Fighter Interception Unit (18 Aug 1940 - 26 Jan 1941)

No 422 Flt (14 Oct - 9 Dec 1940)

225 Sqn det (xx xxx xxxx  - Oct 1940)

No 11 Group ASR Flt (c.14 May - 9 Jul 1941, 15 Oct - 22 Dec 1941)

No 11 Group TT Flt (20 May - Oct 1941, 25 Oct - 1 Dec 1941)

No 1488 (TT) Flt (1 Dec 1941 - 9 Feb 1942)

277 Sqn det (22 Dec 1941 - 15 Apr 1944)

No 1 Flt , No 1488 (TT) Flt, (May - 7 Jun 1942)

3 Sqn (14 Aug - 21 Aug 1942)

7 AAPC TT Flt (21 Apr - 17 Jun 1943)

No 1631 (AAC) Flt (17 Jun - 1 Dec 1943)

No 1497 (TT) Flt (3 Jul - 18 Oct 1943)

667 Sqn ‘C’ Flt (1 Dec 1943 - 3 Apr 1944)

277 Sqn (15 Apr - 5 Oct 1944)

345 Sqn (26 Apr - 16 Aug 1944)

No 161 Gliding School (Jan - Jun 1946)

Location

County: - Sussex

Lat/Long:  50:50:12N 00:17:23W

Grid Ref:  TQ202055/198

Height above sea level: 10 ft

Railway Station - Shoreham on Sea SR

Control: -

Opened - 1911

No 11 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 12 Mar 1946)

Transferred to Ministry of Civil Aviation - 12 Mar 1946

Notes.

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3 (Reserve) Sqn (21 Jan 1915 - 13 Jan 1916)

14 Sqn (3 Feb -  May 1915)

3 Training Sqn (13 Jan 1916 -15 Jul 1918)

21 (ME) Res Sqn (22 May - Jun 1916)

86th Aero Sqn USAAS (25 Mar - 11 Aug 1918)

SE Area Flying Instructors School (Jul 1918 - 31 Mar 1919)

82 Sqn (15 Feb - May 1919)

123 Sqn (31 Mar 1919 - 5 Feb 1920)

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Main units: -

Satellite - No 30 OTU (16 Sep 1942 - 28 Oct 1944)

Satellite - No 23 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit (28 Oct 1944 - 17 Jan 1945)

RLG - No 21 (P) AFU (28 Feb 1945 - 16 Jul 1946)

Location

County: - Staffordshire

Lat/Long:  52:49:39N 02:11:47W

Grid Ref:  SJ868255

Height above sea level: 310 ft

Control: -

Opened (Satellite - RAF Hixon) - 16 Sep 1942

No 93 Group (16 Sep 1942 - 28 Oct 1944)

No 23 Group (28 Oct 1944 - 31 Jul 1947)

Station abandoned - 31 Jul 1947

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Flying Training Command, parented by RAF Ternhill, until 30 September 1960 on its transfer to the Ministry of Aviation.

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a satellite for Hixon was issued in May 1941.

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Main units: -

RLG - No 1 Service Flying Training School (xx Jul 1940 - 7 Mar 1942)

RLG - No 15 Service Flying Training School (xx Jul 1940 - 1 Mar 1942)

Heavy Glider Conversion Unit (1 - 15 Jul 1942)

Satellite - Glider Pilots' Exercise Unit (8 Oct - 17 Dec 1942)

'A' Flight, No 43 Operational Training Unit (15 - 19 Nov 1942)

Satellite - Operational and Refresher Training Unit (xx xxx 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Wiltshire

Lat/Long:  51:12:45N 01:53:30W

Grid Ref:  SU076460.184

Height above sea level:  350 ft

Railway Station - Salisbury SR

Control: -

Opened -

Flying Training Command (xx xxxx 1940 - 7 Mar 1942)

Army Co-operation Command (7 Mar 1942 - 1 Jun 1943)

No 38 Wing (1 Jun 1943 - 15 Apr 1946)

Station abandoned - 15 Apr 1946

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a RLG for Netheravon was announced on 9 June 1939

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Main units: -

No 7 SFTS RLG (29 Jun - Dec 1940)

No 14 SFTS RLG (14 Dec 1940 - Jun 1941)

No 13 EFTS RLG (Jan - 1 Jun 1941)

No 25 EFTS RLG (1 Jun - 16 Jul 1941)

No 2 CFS RLG (15 Jun 1941- xx xxx xxxx)

No 16 SFTS RLG (16 Mar - Jun 1942)

No 7 (P) AFU RLG (1 Jul 1942 - 21 Dec 1944)

No 7 SFTS RLG (21 Dec 1944 - Apr 1946)

Location

County: - Leicestershire

Lat/Long:  52:32:53N 00:23:00W

Grid Ref:  TL095966/142

Height above sea level: 115 ft

Railway Station - Stamford LMS & LNER

Control: -

Opened - xx xxx 1940

FTC (xx xxx xxxx - 8 Jul 1946)

Closed - 21 May 1946

Fighter Command (8 Jul - 31 Oct 1946)

Closed - 31 Oct 1946

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Retention status) in Flying Training Command, parented by RAF Wittering, but by 11 May 1950 it no longer required parenting.

Transferred to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries - xx xxx xxxx

Notes.

Its approval for acquisition as the site of a RLG for Peterborough was announced on 14 July 1939.

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Main units: -

Satellite, RAF Wick (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

232 Sqn (13 - 24 Oct 1940, 11 Nov - 4 Dec 1940)

260 Sqn (5 Dec 1940 - 7 Jan 1941, 10 Feb - 16 Apr 1941)

804 Sqn (7 Jan - 10 Feb 1941)

607 Sqn (16 Apr - 27 Jul 1941)

404 Sqn (27 Jul - 9 Oct 1941)

48 Sqn (20 Oct 1941 - 6 Jan 1942)

217 Sqn (16 Feb - 1 Mar 1942)

86 Sqn (9 Mar - 31 Jul 1942)

489 Sqn (5 Aug - 24 Sep 1942)

No 38 Wing Spec Duties (17 - 19 Nov 1942)

179 Sqn (1 Sep - 18 Nov 1942)

407 Sqn (16 Feb - 31 Mar 1943)

618 Sqn (1 Apr 1943 - 9 Jul 1944)

No 1693 (GR) Flt (8 Sep - 11 Dec 1943)

519 Sqn (11 Dec 1943 - 29 Nov 1944)

Location

County: - Caithness

Lat/Long:  58:29:43N 03:09:45W

Grid Ref:  ND327571/12

Height above sea level: 65 ft

Railway Station - Wick LMS

Control: -

Opened - 1940

No 18 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 10 Jul 1945)

Fighter Command (10 Jul 1945 - 13 Nov 1945)

Transferred on loan to the Admiralty - 13 Nov 1945

Closed on transfer to the Admiralty - 1 Dec 1945

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Coastal Command, parented by RAF Kinloss, until 1 November 1958 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

Notes.

Detachments**

608 Sqn (17 Feb 1942 - xx xxx xxxx)

144 Sqn (15 Jul 1942 - xx xxx xxxx)

172 Sqn (17 Aug - 14 Sep 1942)

415 Sqn (c Aug 1942 - xx xxx xxxx)

612 Sqn (xx xxx 1942 - 2 Feb 1943)

455 Sqn (16 - 20 Mar 1944)

Main units: -

Satellite, RAF Tilstock (15 Jan 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 1665 HCU RLG (23 Jan 1944 - 26 Mar 1945)

No 81 OTU (26 Jan 1944 - 10 Aug 1945)

No 1380 CU (10 Aug - 28 Dec 1945)

‘A’ & ‘B’ Flts EANS RLG (Dec 1945 - Jun 1947)

No 6 FTS RLG (May 1947 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 34 Maintenance Unit (30 Jun 1947 - xx xxx xxxx)

EANS RLG (25 Jun 1948 - 31 Jul 1949)

CNCS RLG (21 Aug 1956 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Shropshire

Lat/Long:  52:50:00N 02:46:15W

Grid Ref:  SJ482268/126

Height above sea level: 272 ft

Railway Station - Yorton LMS

Control: -

Opened - 15 Jan 1943

No 93 Group (15 Jan 1943 - 1 Jan 1944)

No 38 Group (1 Jan 1944 - 28 Dec 1945)

FTC (28 Dec 1945 - 30 Jun 1947)

Maintenance Command (30 Jun 1947 - 15 Aug 1948)

FTC (15 Aug 1948 - xx xxx xxxx)*

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Retention status) in Flying Training Command, parented by RAF Shawbury.

Notes

*Parented by RAF Shawbury

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Main units: -

None

Location

County: -

Lat/Long: 

Height above sea level:  ft

Control: -

Opened -

Transport Command (xx xxx xxxx - 7 Aug 1947)

Station abandoned - 7 Aug 1947

Notes.

Originally an Emergency Landing Ground for RAF Tempsford, it was upgraded to a RLG for the same station in January 1943.

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Main units: -

No 9 EFTS RLG (xx xxx 1940 - 31 Mar 1944)

Location

County: - Warwickshire

Lat/Long:  52:14:57N 01:22:23W

Grid Ref:  SP430620/163

Height above sea level: 300 ft

Railway Station - Long Itchington LMS

Control: -

Opened - xx xxx 1940

Transferred on loan to Ministry of Works - 18 Dec 1944

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a RLG for No 9 EFTS, Ansty was issued in January 1940.

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Main units: -

No 2 FTS RLG (Aug 1940 - 14 Mar 1942)

No 3 (P) AFU RLG (13 Jul 1942 - 22 Jan 1945)

No 1539 BAT Flt det (xxx - xxx 1943)

No 2865 Sqn, RAF Regiment (6 Jul 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

HQ, No 27 Group (22 Jan 1945 - 18 Sep 1947)

No 27 Group Communication Flt (22 Jan 1945 - c Oct 1946)

No 6 SFTS RLG (17 Dec 1945 - 30 Apr 1946)

Location

County: - Gloucestershire

Lat/Long:  51:43:38N 01:44:15W

Grid Ref:  SP935970/141

Height above sea level: 340 ft

Railway Station - Harringworth LMS

Control: -

Opened - 1940

FTC (xx xxx xxxx - 22 Jan 1945)

TTC (22 Jan 1945 - 24 Nov 1947)

Transport Command (24 Nov 1947 - xx xxx xxxx)

Station abandoned - 24 Nov 1947

Transferred to Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries - 26 Jun 1948

Notes.

It was announced as New Station 'N' under Expansion Scheme 'C' in January 1936, but this was changed to Brize Norton in February 1936.

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Main units: -

No 10 OTU RLG det (3 Sep 1940 - 20 Mar 1944)

No 1501 BAT Flt (18 Apr - 15 Nov 1943)

No 1682 Bomber (Defence) Training Flt (2 Jul 1943 - 26 Feb 1944)

No 10 OTU (20 Mar - 16 Nov 1944)

No 1341 (SD) Flt (Jun - xx xxx 1944)

No 10 OTU RLG (16 Nov 1944 - 23 Nov 1945)

Location

County: - Oxfordshire

Lat/Long:  51:44:30N 01:24:30W

Grid Ref:  SP410040/164

Height above sea level: 230 ft

Railway Station - Eynsham GWR

Control: -

Opened - 1940

Closed - xx xxx xxxx

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Transport Command, parented by RAF Abingdon, which ceased on 29 September 1953 following the station's derequisition.

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a satellite for RAF Abingdon was issued in May 1940.

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Main units: -

Sub-site, No 5 Maintenance Unit (Oct 1940)

No 10 EFTS (29 Sep 1941 - 21 Jul 1942)

No 3 GTS (21 Jul 1942 - 24 Jul 1945)

47th Liaison Sqn USAAF (18 - 25 Apr 1944)

Sub-site, No 7 Maintenance Unit (16 Sep 1946 - 6 Mar 1950)

Location

County: - Gloucestershire

Lat/Long:  51:56:45N 02:06:15W

Grid Ref:  SO928275

Height above sea level: 100  ft

Railway Station - Cleeve LMS

Control: -

Opened - 1941

No 23 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 29 Mar 1945)

TTC (29 Mar 1945 - 16 Sep 1946)

Maintenance Command (16 Sep 1946 - 6 Mar 1950)

On 6 March 1950 it was reduced to Inactive (Surplus status) in Reserve Command, parented by RAF Staverton, which ceased on 1 April 1952.

Reserve Command (6 Mar 1950 - xx xxx xxxx)

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a RLG for the EFTS at Cheltenham was issued in February 1940.

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Main units: -

No 8 FTS RLG (Jun 1940 - Mar 1942)

No 2 FIS RLG (2 Jul 1942 - 30 Jun 1944)

No 1541 BAT Flt (17 May 1943 - 11 Jul 1945)

Sub-Site, No 44 Maintenance Unit (xx xxx 1945 - xx xxx 1946)

Sub-Site, No 260 Maintenance Unit (6 Nov 1945 - xx xxx 1946)

Location

County: - Angus

Lat/Long:  56:45:53N 02:35:00W

Grid Ref:  NO644635/45

Height above sea level: 300 ft

Railway Station - Brechin LMS

Control: -

Opened - xx xxx 1941

FTC (xx xxx xxxx - 6 Nov 1945)

Maintenance Command (6 Nov 1945 - 7 May 1946)

Closed - 7 May 1946

Notes.

The approval of the site for use as a relief landing ground for Montrose was announced on 2 March 1939.

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Main units: -

Satellite, RAF Wellesbourne Mountford (xx xxx xxxx - 16 Nov 1942)

No 22 OTU RLG (5 Jul 1941 - 15 Nov 1942)

Satellite, RAF Pershore (16 Nov 1942 - 15 Mar 1944)

No 23 OTU RLG (16 Nov 1942 - 15 Mar 1944)

No 312 FTU RLG (xx Apr - Jul 1943)

Satellite, RAF Wellesbourne Mountford (15 Mar 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

22 OTU RLG (15 Mar 1944 - 15 Dec 1944)

GCA Sqn Honiley (1 Mar 1945 - xx Jan 1946)

Signals Flying Unit (xx Nov 1945 -xx Jan 1946)

Location

County: - Warwickshire

Lat/Long:  52:09:38N 01:41:00W

Grid Ref:  SP215515/151

Height above sea level: 185 ft

Railway Station - Stratford-on-Avon  GWR &LMS

Control: -

Opened - 1941

No 91 Group (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

No 26 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 25 Apr 1946)

No 90 Group (25 Apr 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Abandoned - xx xxx 1946

No 40 Group (1 May 1954 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 41 Group (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Technical Training Command, parented by RAF Wellesbourne Mountford, until 21 January 1958, following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a satellite for RAF Wellesbourne Mountford was issued in June 1940.

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Main units: -

Various FAA Units

No 187 Gliding School (by Jun 1944 - xx Nov 1947)

Location

County: - Lancashire

Lat/Long:  53:20:45N 02:31:45W

Grid Ref:  SJ652825/109

Height above sea level: 220ft

Railway Station - Warrington LMS

Control: -

Opened - xx xxx 1942

Transferred to RNAS - xx xxx 1942

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a Fighter Satellite aerodrome was issued in April 1941.

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Main units: -

RLG - No 16 EFTS (xxx 1940 - xx Apr 1941)

Satellite, RAF Lichfield (xx Aug 1941 - 7 Nov 1942)

RLG - No 27 OTU (xx Aug 1941 - xx Oct 1942)

Satellite, RAF Leconfield (7 Nov 1942 - xx xxx xxxx)

RLG - No 15 (P) AFU (13 Nov 1942 - 1 May 1943)

RLG - No 5 (P) AFU (1 May 1943 - 1 Feb 1944)

RLG - No 21 (P) AFU (15 Feb 1944 - 19 Jan 1945)

RAF School of Explosives (26 May 1945 - 1 Dec 1946)

Satellite, No 21 MU, RAF Fauld (xx xxx xxxx - 27 Nov 1954)

Location

County: - Staffordshire

Lat/Long:  52:48:45N 01:45:45W

Grid Ref:  SK158241

Height above sea level: 450 ft

Railway Station - Burton-on-Trent LMS

Control: -

Opened - 1941

No 91 Group (1 Sep 1942 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 93 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 7 Nov 1942)

No 21 Group (7 Nov 1942 - 19 Jan 1945)

No 42 Group (19 Jan 1945 - 2 Jan 1956)

It was reduced to inactive status on 27 November 1954, parented by No 21 MU, RAF Fauld, until 1 April 1959 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

No 40 Group (2 Jan 1956 - 1 Apr 1959)

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a satellite for Lichfield was issued in October 1940.

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Main units: -

No 1427 (Ferry Training) Flt (13 Dec 1941 - 18 May 1942)

142 Sqn det (10 - 26 Jun 1942)

12 Sqn ‘A’ and ‘B’ (7 Jun - 7 Jul 1942)

13 Sqn (13 - 20 Aug 1942

298 Sqn (24 Aug - 19 Oct 1942)

295 Sqn det (Aug 1942 - xx xxx xxxx)

170 Sqn (7 - 20 Oct 1942, 16 Oct - 12 Nov 1943)

297 Sqn (25 Oct 1942 - 1 Sep 1943)

No 15 (P) AFU RLG (15 Dec 1942 - 8 Mar 1943)

GPEU (29 Sep - 14 Oct 1943, 14 Nov - 9 Dec 1943)

168 Sqn (15 Oct - 12 Nov 1943)

268 Sqn (15 Oct - 7 Nov 1943)

63 Sqn (8 - 12 Nov 1943)

O&RTU (9 Dec 1943 - 1 Mar 1944)

366th Fighter Group USAAF: (1 Mar - 17 Jun 1944)

• 389th Fighter Sqn

• 390th Fighter Sqn

• 391st Fighter Sqn

No 1311 Transport Flt (10 - 21 Jul 1944)

No 84 Gp Support Unit (10 Jul - 21 Nov 1944)

No 43 OTU satellite (Aug 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 7 FIS RLG (by Jun 1945 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Hampshire

Lat/Long:  51:12:30N 01:36:00W

Grid Ref:  SU280457/186

Height above sea level: 320 ft

Railway Station - Andover Junction SR

Control: -

Opened - 1941

No 38 Wing (1 Jun - 11 Oct 1943)

No 38 Group (11 Oct 1943 - 31 Oct 1946)

Maintenance Command (31 Oct 1946 - 1 Oct 1958)

Closed - 1946

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Retention status) in Maintenance Command, parented by HQ (U) Maintenance Command, until 1 October 1958 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a satellite for RAF Middle Wallop was issued in September 1940.

In February 1941 it was re-allocated as a satellite to RAF Andover.

Main units: -

42 OTU RLG (Jul 1941 - 19 Oct 1942)

225 Sqn (4 Aug 1941 - 13 May 1942, 21 May - 1 Sep 1942 )

16 Sqn (25 Sep - 3 Oct 1941)

No 1526 BAT Flt (11 Nov 1941 - 26 Feb 1944)

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Main units: -

No 27 E&RFTS (24 Jun 1938 - 3 Sep 1939)

No 16 SFTS RLG (15 Jul 1941 - 18 Dec 1946)

No 1524 BAT Flt (3 Jan 1944 - 9 Jan 1945)

No 22 SFTS RLG (15 Nov 1951 - 1 May 1955)

No 1 FTS RLG (1 May 1955 - 1 Jan 1958)

Location

County: - Nottinghamshire

Lat/Long:  52:55:00N 01:04:30W

Grid Ref:  SK620360/129

Height above sea level: 127 ft

Railway Station - Plumtree LMS

Control: -

Opened (Civil) - 1930

No 21 Group (xx xxx xxxx - xxx xxx xxxx)

Closed  - 21 May 1946

Transferred to the Ministry of Civil Aviation - 1 Jul 1946

Reactivated as a RLG - 15 Nov 1951

No 23 Group (15 Nov 1951 - 24 Jun 1960)

Reduced to inactive status on 1 January 1958, parented by RAF Syerston, until 24 June 1960 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

Notes

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Main units: -

18 Sqn detachment (xxx - Sep 1939)

57 Sqn detachment (xxx - Sep 1939)

Satellite, RAF Bicester (1 Oct - 28 Nov 1942)

No 13 OTU RLG (1 Oct - 28 Nov 1942)

Satellite, RAF Chipping Warden (28 Nov 1942 - 1 May 1943)

No 12 OTU RLG (28 Nov 1942 - 1 May 1943)

Satellite, RAF Bicester (1 May - 3 Jul 1943)

No 13 OTU RLG (1 May - 3 Jul 1943)

No 307 FTU (1 May - 14 Oct 1943)

Satellite, RAF Silverstone (3 Jul 1943 - xx xxx 1945)

No 17 OTU RLG (3 Jul 1943 - 15 Dec 1945)

Location

County: - Buckinghamshire

Lat/Long:  52:02:15N 01:00:00W

Grid Ref:  SP615383

Height above sea level: 448 ft

Railway Station - Brackley LNER

Control: -

Opened - 1 Oct 1942

No 92 Group (1 Oct 1942 - 1 May 1943)

No 70 Group (1 May - 3 Jul 1943)

No 92 Group (3 Jul 1943 - 21 Jan 1946)

Transferred to the War Office - 21 Jan 1946

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Maintenance Command, parented by RAF Bicester, until 25 May 1960 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

Notes

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Main units: -

No 14 SFTS RLG (16 Aug 1941 - 19 Jan 1942)

3 EFTS RLG (Aug 1941- 9 Nov 1942)

3 SFTS RLG (Sep 1941 - 1 Mar 1942)

ACS RLG (xx xxx 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

School of Flying Control (14 Jun - 18 Dec 1943)

‘A’ and ‘B’ Flts No 3 GTS (18 Dec 1943 - 22 May 1944)

No 1547 BAT Flt RLG (xx xxx 1945 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Wiltshire

Lat/Long:  51:22:08N 01:41:00W

Grid Ref:  SU218828/173

Height above sea level: 650 ft

Railway Station - Swindon GWR

Control: -

Opened -

Closed - 21 May 1946

Notes.

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Main units: -

No 2 CFS RLG (xx Jul 1941 - 13 Jan 1942)

No 1 FIS RLG (13 Jan - 27 Oct 1942)

No 18 (P) AFU RLG (27 Oct 1942 - 29 May 1945)

Location

County: - Warwickshire

Lat/Long:  52:16:00N 01:36:15W

Grid Ref:  SP268365/151

Height above sea level: 160 ft

Railway Station - Warwick LMS

Control: -

Opened (RLG) - 1941

No 23 Group (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

Notes.

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Main Units: -

Sub-site No 244 Maintenance Unit (1 Jan 1953 - 17 Jan 1955)

Sub-site No 217 Maintenance Unit (17 Jan 1955 - 25 Nov 1960)

Location

County: - Northamptonshire

Lat/Long: 

Control: -

Opened -

No 43 Group (1 Jan 1953 - 17 Jan 1955)

No 40 Group (17 Jan 1955 - 25 Nov 1960)

Reduced to inactive status on 25 November 1960, parented by No 217 MU, RAF Cardington, until 30 November 1962 on surrender of leased land.

Notes.

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Main units (continued): -

No 11 SFTS RLG (Sep - 11 Oct 1941)

412 Sqn (20 Oct 1941 - 1 May 1942)

No 3 (C) OTU det (3 Dec 1941 - xx xxx xxxx)

54 Sqn (1 - 18 Jun 1942)

81 Sqn (1 Sep - 30 Oct 1942)

154 Sqn (1 Sep - 1 Nov 1942)

288 Sqn (5 Dec 1942 - 18 Jan 1943)

613 Sqn (29 Mar - 28 May 1943)

416 Sqn (29 May - 6 Jun 1943)

349 Sqn (5 - 25 Aug 1943)

416 Sqn (19 Sep - 2 Oct 1943)

309 Sqn (6 Nov - 24 Nov 1943)

439 Sqn  (31 Dec 1943-  8 Jan 1944)

402 Sqn (12 Feb - 21 Mar 1944)

No 17 SFTS RLG (2 Apr 1944 -  May 1945)

Satellite, RAF Cranwell (8 Apr 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 19 FTS RLG (1 May 1945 - Jun 1946)

Location

County: - Lincolnshire

Lat/Long:  53:04:30N 00:31:30W

Grid Ref:  SK988545/121

Height above sea level: 260 ft

Railway Station - Leadenham LNER

Control: -

Opened - xx xxx 1935

No 12 Group (xx xxx 8 Apr 1944)

No 27 Group (8 Apr 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

Notes.

Main units: -

Satellite, RAF Digby (xx xxx xxxx - 8 Apr  1944)

RAFC RLG (xx xxx 1937 - Sep 1940)

29 Sqn det (8 - 27 Jul 1940)

29 Sqn (27 Jul 1940 - 27Apr 1941)

46 Sqn det (Dec 1940  - Feb 1941)

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Main units (continued): -

124 Sqn (29 Oct - 7 Nov 1942, 9 Aug - 25 Sep 1944)

485 Sqn (2 Jan - 15 Feb 1943)

501 Sqn (30 Apr - 17 May 1943, 12 - 21 Jun 1943, 2 Jul - 2 Aug 1944)

No 1493 (F) G Flt det (9 Jun - 1 Jul 1943)

91 Sqn (28 Jun - 4 Oct 1943)

118 Sqn (15 -24 Aug 1943, 29 Aug - 25 Sep 1944)

175 Sqn (9 Oct 1943 - 24 Feb 1944, 8 Mar - 1 Apr 1944)

16 Wing Leader (9 Oct 1943 - 1 Apr 1944)

174 Sqn (10 Oct 1943 - 21 Jan 1944, 4 Feb - 1 Apr 1944)

245 Sqn (10 Oct 1943 - 1 Apr 1944)

No 403 R&SU (Dec 1943 - 6 Apr 1944)

No 144 Airfield HQ (1 - 21 Apr 1944)

441 Sqn (1 - 12 Apr 1944)

442 Sqn (1 - 22 Apr 1944)

No 419 R&SU (2 - 28 Apr 1944)

443 Sqn (8 - 22 Apr 1944)

184 Sqn (23 Apr - 13 May 1944, 20 May - 17 Jun 1944)

No 84 Group Communication Sqn (12 May - 20 Aug 1944)

No 129 (FB) Wing (12 May - 13 Jun 1944)

303 Sqn (18 - 26 Jun 1944, 9 Aug - 25 Sep 1944)

130 Sqn (19 - 27 Jun 1944)

402 Sqn (19 - 27 Jun 1944)

350 Sqn (4 Jul - 8 Aug 1944)

No 420 R&SU (14 Jul - 18 Aug 1944)

No 83 Group Support Unit (3 Nov - 21 Nov 1944)

787 Sqn (12 Jul - 16 Nov 1945)

CFE RLG (xx xxx - 1 Oct 1945)

Location

County: - Sussex

Lat/Long:  50:51:38N 00:45:30W

Grid Ref:  SU875075/197

Height above sea level: 110 ft

Railway Station - Chichester SR

Control: -

Opened - xx xxx 1940

Closed - 13 May 1946

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145 Sqn (31 Jul - 14 Aug 1940)

602 Sqn (13 Aug - 17 Dec 1940)

302 Sqn (23 Nov 1940 - 7 Apr 1941)

610 Sqn (19 Dec 1940 - 28 Aug 1941, 23 Jan - 30 Apr 1943)

614 Sqn det (c Mar -  Jul 1941)

616 Sqn (9 May - 6 Oct 1941, 29 Oct 1942 - 2 Jan 1943)

129 Sqn (29 Aug - 1 Nov 1941, 23 Dec 1941 - 30 Jul 1942)

65 Sqn (7 Oct - 22 Dec 1941)

ASR Flt (15 - 30 Nov 1941)

41 Sqn (16 Dec 1941 - 1 Apr 1942, 21 Jun - 4 Oct 1943, 28 Jun - 2 Jul 1944)

340 Sqn (7 Apr - 20 Jul 1942, 26 Jul - 28 Jul 1942)

416 Sqn (25 Jun - 16 Jul 1942)

309th Fighter Sqn USAAF (1 Aug - 23 Oct 1942)

308th Fighter Sqn USAAF (25 Aug - 23 Oct 1942)

131 Sqn (7 Nov 1942 - 18 Jan 1943)

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No 32 E&RFTS (15 Apr - 3 Sep 1939)

219 Sqn ‘B’ Flt (23 Feb 1940 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 6 (C) OTU RLG (8 Sep 1941 - xx Mar 1943)

54 Sqn det (Mar 1942 - xx xxx xxxx)

332 Sqn det (20 Apr 1942 - xx xxx xxxx)

243 Sqn ‘A’ Flt (xx xxx - 22 Aug 1942)

No 1 AACU ‘N’ Flt (4 May - 1 Nov 1942)

403 Sqn ‘A’ Flt (9 Jul - 1 Oct 1942)

403 Sqn ‘B’ Flt (22 Aug - 10 Oct 1942)

72 Sqn ‘B’ Flt (1 - xx Oct 1942)

403 Sqn ‘A’ Flt (11 Oct 1942 - 3 Jun 1943)

No 1613 (AAC) Flt (1 Nov 1942 - 20 Feb 1943)

Satellite, RAF Thornaby (xx Mar - 23 Nov 1943)

No 26 Gliding School (Oct 1943 - Nov 1944)

Location

County: - Durham

Lat/Long:  54:38:40N 01:13:20W

Grid Ref:  NZ505285/93

Height above sea level: 50 ft

Railway Station - West Hartlepool LNER

Control: -

Opened (Satellite, RAF Thornaby) - xx Sep 1939

No 17 Group (8 Sep 1941 - Mar 1943)

No 16 Group (xx Mar - 23 Nov 1943)

Transferred to War Office - 23 Nov 1943

Closed -

Notes

Approval for the acquisition of this airfield was issued in September 1939.

In March 1943 it was temporarily obstructed pending a decision on its future use.

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No 61 Training Sqn (27 Jul 1918)

No 70 Training Sqn (27 Jul 1918)

No 28 Training Depot Station (27 Jul 1918 - Mar 1919)

2 Sqn (Sep 1919 - 20 Jan 1920)

18 Sqn (2 Sep - 31 Dec 1919)

90 Sqn (7 - 19 Sep 1939)

No 13 OTU RLG (8 Apr - 1 Nov 1940)

No 15 SFTS ‘J’ and ‘K’ Flts (1 Nov 1940 - 23 Dec 1941)

No 2 GTS (12 Dec 1941 - 10 Mar 1943)

No 20 (P) AFU RLG (6 Apr 1943 - 21 Jun 1945)

Satellite, RAF Kidlington (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

Sub-Site, No 3 Maintenance Unit (1 Oct 1945 - 31 Dec 1947)

No 1 PTS (28 Mar 1946 - 3 Dec 1947)

No 1 P&GTS (3 Dec 1947 - 9 Aug 1950)

No 130 Gliding School (20 Apr 1951 - 1 Sep 1955)

Location

County: - Oxfordshire

Lat/Long:  51:52:45N 01:13:15W

Grid Ref:  SP535205/164

Height above sea level: 260 ft

Railway Station - Bicester GWR & LMS

Control: -

Opened - 1918

Closed - 1920

Reopened - 1939

No 23 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Oct 1945)

Maintenance Command (1 Oct 1945 - 15 Mar 1946)

Transport Command (15 Mar 1946 - 10 Jun 1950)

Bomber Command (10 Jun 1950 - 10 Apr 1951)

No 62 Group (10 Apr 1951 - 1 Jun 1953)

Transport Command (1 Jun 1953 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed -

Notes.

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No 11 EFTS RLG (Dec 1939 - 9 Jul 1945)

No 5 FIS RLG (Oct 1940 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Perthshire

Lat/Long:  56:20:45N 03:20:45W

Grid Ref:  NO175353/54

Height above sea level: 395 ft

Railway Station - Burrelton LMS

Control: -

Opened - xx Dec 1939

Closed - 9 Jul 1945

Notes.

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Accommodation for USAF personnel at RAF Bassingbourn.

Location

County: - Cambridgeshire

Lat/Long: 

Control: -

Parented by RAF Bassingbourn - 9 Nov 1951

No 3 Group (9 Feb 1951 - 15 Dec 1959)

Station disbanded - 15 Dec 1959

Reduced to inactive status on 15 December 1959, parented by No 231 OCU, RAF Bassingbourn, until 24 April 1961 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

No 1 Group (15 Dec 1959 - 24 Apr 1961)

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No 6 SFTS RLG (xx Jan 1940 - 1 Apr 1942)

No 6 (P) AFU RLG (1 Apr 1942 - 12 Jul 1945)

Location

County: - Gloucestershire

Lat/Long:  51:48:08N 01:43:53W

Grid Ref:  SP185115/163

Height above sea level: 560 ft

Railway Station - Bourton on the Water GWR

Control: -

Opened - 1940

FTC (xx xxx 1940 - 29 Oct 1945)

Transferred to the Admiralty - 29 Oct 1945

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Flying Training Command, parented by RAF Little Rissington, but by 11 May 1950 it no longer required parenting.

Transferred to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries - xx xxx xxxx

Notes.

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a RLG for Brize Norton was announced on 9 June 1939

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54 OTU RLG (12 May 1942 - 31 May 1945)

222 Sqn (1 - 10 Aug 1942)

Location

County: - Berwickshire

Lat/Long:  55:45:00N 02:10:00W

Grid Ref:  NT898505/74

Height above sea level: 170 ft

Railway Station - Norham LNER

Control: -

Opened - 1942

Closed on transfer to the War Office - 23 Nov 1945

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Fighter Command, parented by RAF Acklington.

Derequisitioned - xx xxx 1949

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a Fighter Operational Training Unit aerodrome or satellite was issued in March 1941.

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No 18 EFTS RLG (28 May 1941- 9 Jul 1945)

Location

County: - Berkshire

Lat/Long:  51:26:45N 00:41:45W

Grid Ref:  SU912726/175

Height above sea level: 230 ft

Railway Station - Ascot SR

Control: -

Opened - xx xxx 1941

Closed - xx xxx 1945

Notes.

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No 43 E & RFTS (1 Jun - 3 Sep 1939)

No 13 Group Communication Flight (1 Aug 1939 - xxx 1940)

Satellite - RAF Ouston (xx xxx 1941 - xx xxx xxxx)

278 Sqn Detachment (Apr 1942 - Feb 1943)

No 111 Repair & Salvage Unit (Sep/Oct - Nov 1942)

281 Sqn (14 Jun - 9 Oct 1943)

No 83 Maintenance Unit (25 Jul 1943 - 30 Apr 1946)

N0 27 Gliding School (xx Oct 1943 - June 1948)

RLG - No 62  Operational Training Unit (22 Nov 1943 - 6 Jun 1945)

No 63 Maintenance Unit (30 Apr 1946 - 24 Mar 1947)

Location

County: - Northumberland

Lat/Long:  55:02:00N 01:42:00W

Grid Ref:  NZ195713/88

Height above sea level: 273 ft

Railway Station - Newcastle Central LNER

Control: -

Opened (Civil Airport) - 1935

RAF Station -

No 13 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 15 Jul 1943)

No 9 Group (15 Jul 1943 - 25 Jun 1944)

No 43 Group (25 Jun 1944 - 15 Nov 1947)

FTC (15 Nov 1947 - xx xxx xxxx)

Notes

This was originally Newcastle upon Tyne Airport and known as RAF Newcastle but this was changed to RAF Woolsington in June 1942 to avoid confusion with the RAF Units located in Newcastle.

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Satellite, RAF Mildenhall (3 Nov 1950 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: -

Lat/Long: 

Grid Ref: 

Height above sea level:  ft

Railway Station -

Control: -

Transferred from the Ministry of Works - 3 Nov 1950

Opened - 3 Nov 1950

Closed -

Notes.

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