Airfield Construction Branch RAF information

The RAF Airfield Construction Branch constructed and repaired runways, hard-standings, buildings and other facilities as required by the Royal Air Force...

August 1963, the site was used by the Airfield Construction Branch RAF until 1966. In 1966 the station and airfield remained the property of the Ministry...

the oldest RAF base. Originally established for the Royal Flying Corps, it has the longest history of continuous use of any RAF airfield. Before the...

and officers from various RAF units, including No. 5358 Airfield Construction Wing of the Airfield Construction Branch RAF, was diverted from its original...

interdependency until RAF Upwood closed in late 2012. RAF Alconbury and RAF Molesworth were the last Second World War era Eighth Air Force airfields in the United...

December 1947, the RAF School of Photography from 1948 to 1964, the RAF School of Education 1950 to 1952 and the Airfield Construction Branch from 1951 to 1964...

1 mi) southwest of Bristol city centre. Built on the site of a former RAF airfield, it opened in 1957 as Bristol (Lulsgate) Airport, replacing Bristol (Whitchurch)...

1956. No. 2798 Squadron RAF Regiment was also here at some point. In 1948 The Airfield Construction Branch moved to the airfield with the plant training...

No. 8 Supply and Transport Column No. 5153 Squadron of the Airfield Construction Branch RAF was engaged in building works at Shaibah during the war. Squadron...

This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...

RAF Masirah (or Royal Air Force Masirah), was an airfield located on the northern tip of Masirah Island, Oman. The base was built during 1943 as a staging...

Siddeley (Blackburn) Buccaneers. RAF Honington has been the RAF Regiment depot since 1994. Construction of Honington airfield, which was undertaken by John...

Gloucester and Swindon. The nearest railway station is at Kemble. Construction work for RAF Kemble began in 1936, and the first operational unit to arrive...

School. In addition RAF Jurby also played host to a variety of operational squadrons. RAF Jurby was originally a grass airfield but was later equipped...

RAF and USAAF units based at the station Start of collection of First World War photographs of construction, use, and groundplans of Andover Airfield...

tutored here with No. 1667 HCU being established on the airfield in June 1943, moving out to RAF Faldingworth in October. In November the same year, No...

Squadron RAF No. 20 Squadron RAF No. 25 Squadron RAF No. 33 Squadron RAF No. 42 Squadron RAF No. 62 Squadron RAF No. 66 Squadron RAF No. 101 Squadron RAF No...

hangars. During the Second World War the airfield was one of the commanding bases for No. 11 Group RAF, RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain...

maintenance facility at RAF Llandow. During the war a dummy airfield was built using wood and cardboard a few miles west of the original airfield and successful...

depôt was established at RAF Cosford for Free Czechoslovak personnel joining the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. The airfield runway was originally a...

the RAF's activity on the airfield. The station was created in the Second World War on the site of a former golf course. It was home to various RAF Coastal...

the RAF built and developed a new airfield at Crosby-on-Eden. The new facility came into operation in February 1941, the station designated as RAF Crosby...

Unit RAF between 14 June 1942 and 30 November 1943 No. 7 Squadron RAF No. 8 Squadron RAF No. 10 Squadron RAF No. 15 Squadron RAF No. 16 Squadron RAF No...

operations groups within Air Command, controlling the RAF's fast combat aircraft and the associated airfields. The AOC has been Air Vice Marshal Ian Duguid,...

in from RAF Hinaidi, Baghdad, which was then finally vacated by the British on 21 December 1937 and renamed "Rashid Airfield" by the Iraqis. RAF Dhibban...