Former Royal Air Force station in East Lothian, Scotland
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RAF Flying Training Command (1939) RAF Fighter Command (1939 - 1945) * No. 13 Group RAF[1] Fleet Air Arm (1942 - 1946) *lodger unit (1942 - 1945)
Site history
Built
1917 (1917)
In use
1917 - March 1946 (1946)
Battles/wars
First World War European theatre of World War II
Airfield information
Elevation
11 metres (36 ft)[1] AMSL
Runways
Direction
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Royal Air Force Drem, or more simply RAF Drem, is a former Royal Air Force station, just north of the village of Drem in East Lothian, Scotland. The motto of the station was Exiit Hinc Lumen which means "Light has departed from this place".
Royal Air Force Drem, or more simply RAFDrem, is a former Royal Air Force station, just north of the village of Drem in East Lothian, Scotland. The motto...
the former West Fenton Aerodrome (later Gullane Aerodrome) became RAFDrem and the Drem Lighting System was developed to assist Spitfire landing. The disused...
and six Harts from the recently disbanded No. 13 FTS which was based at RAFDrem in East Lothian. In late 1939, the station hosted detachments of Armstrong...
biplanes at RAF Macmerry and RAF East Fortune in East Lothian. In August 1939, Denholm was drafted as a flight commander to 603 Squadron at RAFDrem. By the...
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command, but they could not prevent widespread destruction of industrial cities. Only once did the RAF lose as many as nine...
World War, and the airfield was taken over by the RAF as a satellite to the nearby fighter station RAFDrem, although its role was soon expanded to other...
the Royal Air Force (RAF), at RAF Ayr, near Prestwick, in Scotland. The first official sortie of No. 410 Squadron was from RAFDrem, East Lothian, Scotland...
the RAF Fighter Command order of battle at 15 September 1940, during the Battle of Britain. RAF Fighter Command Headquarters was located at RAF Bentley...
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1988, p. 103. Jefford, C. G. (1988). RAF Squadrons. A comprehensive record of the movement and equipment of all RAF squadrons and their antecedents since...
since they had flown intensive trials with it, mounted in Beaufighters at RAFDrem in May 1943. Changing to Mosquitos and using it in conjunction with AI...
Battle of Britain, the defence of the UK's airspace was divided up within RAF Fighter Command into four Groups, each comprising several airfields and squadrons...
Royal Air Force Castletown or more simply RAF Castletown, is a former Royal Air Force station that operated during the Second World War. Built near to...
Aerospace Battle Management began on 25 January 1945 at RAFDrem as the SCR.584 Training Unit RAF, this unit used Supermarine Spitfires to train crews how...
Reserve. In 1941, he was posted to No. 602 Squadron RAF, which was initially stationed at RAFDrem near Haddington. During the Battle of Britain, the squadron...
Spitfire. It mobilised on the outbreak of war at RAF Grangemouth on 6 October 1939 and then to RAFDrem a month later, charged with defending Edinburgh...
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