RAF Strike Command * No. 18 Group RAF RAF Air Command * No. 1 Group RAF
Condition
Closed
Site history
Built
1938 (1938)
In use
1939–2012 (2012)
Fate
Transferred to British Army to become Kinloss Barracks.
Airfield maintained as a Relief Landing Ground.
Garrison information
Past commanders
Group Captain James Johnston (final station commander)
Airfield information
Identifiers
IATA: FSS, ICAO: EGQK, WMO: 03066
Elevation
6.7 metres (22 ft) AMSL
Runways
Direction
Length and surface
07/25
2,375 metres (7,792 ft) Asphalt
Royal Air Force Kinloss, or more simply RAF Kinloss, is a former Royal Air Force station located near the village of Kinloss, on the Moray Firth in the north east of Scotland, UK.
The RAF station opened on 1 April 1939 and served as a training establishment during the Second World War. After the war it was handed over to Coastal Command to monitor Soviet ships and submarines in the Norwegian Sea. Until 2010 it was the main base for the RAF's fleet of Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR.2 maritime patrol aircraft. It was intended that the MR2 would be replaced by the Nimrod MRA.4, but the MRA4 was cancelled in the Strategic Defence and Security Review of October 2010. As a result, Kinloss became surplus to RAF requirements and regular flying operations ceased on 31 July 2011.
In November 2011, the Ministry of Defence and 12 (Air Support) Engineer Group of the British Army announced that 930 personnel from 39 Engineer Regiment (Air Support) would move from Waterbeach Barracks, near Cambridge, to Kinloss in summer 2012. The first personnel of 39 Engineer Regiment arrived in June 2012, with the majority arriving in July 2012. The airfield is maintained as a relief landing site by Eurofighter Typhoon FGR.4s from nearby RAF Lossiemouth.
On 26 July 2012 the RAF Ensign was lowered for the last time, and replaced by the flag of 39 Engineer Regiment, marking the establishment of Kinloss Barracks.
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^"Defence Estates Development Plan (DEDP) 2009 - Annex A" (PDF). GOV.UK. Ministry of Defence. 3 July 2009. p. 2. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
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Lancaster GR3 in 1951 at RAFKinloss, moved to RAF Aldergrove in 1952, converted to the MR2 in 1953 and the MR3 in 1958, moved to RAFKinloss in 1959, converted...
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