Royal Air Force Castle Kennedy, or more simply RAF Castle Kennedy, is a former Royal Air Force satellite station located in Castle Kennedy, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
The following units were here at some point:[1]
No. 2 Squadron RAF
No. 2 Torpedo Training Unit RAF (December 1942 - September 1943)[2]
No. 3 Air Gunners School RAF (April - December 1942 & November 1943 - June 1945[3]
No. 10 Air Gunners School RAF (July - December 1941)[3]
Detachment of No. 17 Service Flying Training School RAF (November - December 1944)[4]
No. 104 Storage Sub Unit of No. 57 Maintenance Unit RAF (July 1945 - September 1947)[5]
No. 2799 Squadron RAF Regiment
Central Gunnery School RAF (June - December 1941)[6]
^"Castle Kennedy (Lochinch) (Stranraer)". Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
^Sturtivant, Hamlin & Halley 1997, p. 293.
^ abSturtivant, Hamlin & Halley 1997, p. 57.
^Sturtivant, Hamlin & Halley 1997, p. 155.
^Sturtivant, Hamlin & Halley 1997, p. 207.
^Sturtivant, Hamlin & Halley 1997, p. 88.
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