Royal Air Force Royal Navy United States Air Force
Controlled by
RAF Fighter Command 1941-44 * No. 13 Group RAF Fleet Air Arm
Site history
Built
1940 (1940)
In use
April 1941-1946 (1946)
Battles/wars
European theatre of World War II
Airfield information
Elevation
15 metres (49 ft)[1] AMSL
Runways
Direction
Length and surface
01/19
1,261 metres (4,137 ft) Tarmac/Asphalt
06/24
1,463 metres (4,800 ft) Tarmac/Asphalt
13/31
1,097 metres (3,599 ft) Tarmac/Asphalt
Royal Air Force Heathfield, or more commonly RAF Heathfield, sometimes known as RAF Ayr/Heathfield due to its proximity to Glasgow Prestwick Airport, which was also used by military flights, is a former Royal Air Force station. It opened in April 1941 as an airbase for day and night fighter squadrons. In September 1944 it transferred to Fleet Air Arm control and commissioned as HMS Wagtail. The Royal Navy paid off the airbase in March 1946 and it was reduced to care and maintenance. The United States Air Force used it for storage between 1951 and 1957, with the designation USAAF Station 570.
Like many other wartime airfields, its runways were of the triangular layout.
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