Former Royal Air Force station in Pembrokeshire, Wales
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RAF Coastal Command 1939-1942 *No. 15 Group RAF RAF Flying Training Command 1942 *No. 25 Group RAF RAF Technical Training Command 1942-1945 *No. 27 Group RAF (1944)
Site history
Built
1938 (1938)
In use
1938-1945 (1945)
Battles/wars
European theatre of World War II
Airfield information
Elevation
28 metres (92 ft) AMSL
Runways
Direction
Length and surface
06/24
965 metres (3,166 ft) Asphalt
12/30
1,040 metres (3,412 ft) Asphalt
16/34
765 metres (2,510 ft) Asphalt
RAF Carew Cheriton control tower
Royal Air Force Carew Cheriton, or more simply RAF Carew Cheriton, is a former Royal Air Force station located near Carew, Pembrokeshire. It was situated 4.7 miles (7.6 km) north west of Tenby.
It covered and more, the same site of the First World War airship station, RNAS Pembroke (aka Milton), which had been decommissioned and sold off by the Admiralty during the Interwar period. It opened in the 1939, for RAF Coastal Command. The station was transferred to RAF Technical Training Command in 1942 and closed in 1945.[1]
^Phillips 2012, p. 21.
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