RAF Fighter Command 1940-44 * No. 10 Group RAF RAF Flying Training Command 1944- * No. 23 Group RAF[1]
Site history
Built
1939 (1939)/40
In use
November 1940 - October 1946 (1946)
Battles/wars
European theatre of World War II
Airfield information
Elevation
210 metres (689 ft)[1] AMSL
Runways
Direction
Length and surface
02/20
850 metres (2,789 ft) Asphalt
08/26
1,330 metres (4,364 ft) Asphalt
14/32
1,230 metres (4,035 ft) Asphalt
Royal Air Force Charmy Down or more simply RAF Charmy Down is a former Royal Air Force station in Somerset, England, approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) north-northeast of Bath and 96 miles (154 km) west of London.
Opened in 1941, it was used initially by the RAF and from 1943 by the United States Army Air Forces, primarily as a night fighter interceptor airfield. It was closed in 1946. Today the remains of the airfield are on private property and are used as agricultural fields.[2]
^ abcFalconer 2012, p. 63.
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small and the FLS was transferred to RAFCharmyDown on 9 February. The airfield came under the control of RAF South Cerney ten days later and was used...
fortnight at RAF Zeals from the beginning of November, returning to RAF Angle, then a week at the beginning of December at RAFCharmyDown. Its dual role...
was deployed to Ninth Air Force in England, being assigned to RAFCharmyDown.. CharmyDown become the home of three night fighter squadrons (422d, 423d...
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night fighter squadron to be assigned to Ninth Air Force in England. RAFCharmyDown eventually would become the home of three night fighter squadrons (422d...
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Canadian Air Force squadron formed in England on 27 November 1941 at RAFCharmyDown and was known as the "City of Windsor" squadron. It was equipped with...
deployed to England and was assigned to IX Tactical Air Command at RAFCharmyDown. CharmyDown eventually would become the home of three night fighter squadrons...
believed to be from the Beaker people was flattened to make way for RAFCharmyDown. The archaeological evidence shows that the site of the Roman Baths'...
squadrons, No.s 422 and 425, to Scorton from RAFCharmyDown near Bath in Somerset, to train and fly with the RAF night fighter Operational Training Unit assigned...
February until May 1944 when it was deployed to the European Theater at RAFCharmyDown, England as part of the Ninth Air Force. In 1946 the War Assets Administration...
the Fighter Leader's School at RAFCharmyDown. In May 1943 he was posted to North Africa to command No. 244 Wing RAF and in September he was promoted...
changed with the removal of two of the Mark III stations, at RAF Calvo and RAFCharmyDown. Now the remaining seventeen Mark III stations were expected...
30th PRS moved to RAF Middle Wallop and it was replaced by the 423rd Night Fighter Squadron with A-20 Havocs (F-3A) from RAFCharmyDown which was used for...
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