Transferred to British Army and became the Army School of Mechanical Transport, subsequently the Defence School of Transport.
Battles/wars
European theatre of World War II Cold War
Airfield information
Identifiers
ICAO: EGXV, WMO: 03382
Elevation
7 metres (23 ft)[4] AMSL
Runways
Direction
Length and surface
01/19
1,829 metres (6,001 ft) Concrete
04/22
1,280 metres (4,199 ft) Concrete
14/32
1,280 metres (4,199 ft) Concrete
Royal Air Force Leconfield or more simply RAF Leconfield is a former Royal Air Force station located in Leconfield (near Beverley), East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
The site is now used by the MoD Defence School of Transport Leconfield or DST Leconfield.
^Pine, L. G. (1983). A dictionary of mottoes (1 ed.). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 69. ISBN 0-7100-9339-X.
^Birtles 2012, p. 35.
^"Defence Estates Development Plan (DEDP) 2009 – Annex A" (PDF). GOV.UK. Ministry of Defence. 3 July 2009. p. 11. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
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United Kingdom (and its Crown Dependencies) begin with the two letters "EG". RAF Mount Pleasant on the Falkland Islands also uses the "EG" code. Airport names...
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Control School 1951–55 at RAF Shawbury Coastal Command Gunnery School 1955 at RAFLeconfield Empire Air Navigation School 1947–48 at RAF Shawbury Empire Air...
at RAF Valley and later RAFLeconfield, where Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother went to tea at French's home when French was three years old. RAF archive...
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