RAF Bomber Command 1938-49 * No. 3 Group RAF RAF Fighter Command 1949-61 * No. 12 Group RAF RAF Flying Training Command 1961-70
Site history
Built
1937 (1937)
In use
February 1938 - 1970 (1970)
Battles/wars
European theatre of World War II
Airfield information
Elevation
116 metres (381 ft) AMSL
Runways
Direction
Length and surface
02/20
Concrete
06/24
Concrete
12/30
Concrete
Royal Air Force Stradishall or more simply RAF Stradishall is a former Royal Air Force station located 7 miles (11 km) north east of Haverhill, Suffolk and 9 miles (14 km) south west of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England.
Royal Air Force Stradishall or more simply RAFStradishall is a former Royal Air Force station located 7 miles (11 km) north east of Haverhill, Suffolk...
Farley Green. The Royal Air Force operated an airfield near Stradishall, RAFStradishall, which was operational between 1938 and 1970. The former airfield...
– July 1939) – Moved to RAFStradishall. No. 215 Squadron RAF (Harrow and Wellington) (July 1938 – July 1938) – Moved to RAF Bassingbourn. IX Squadron...
Royal Air Force Wattisham or more simply RAF Wattisham (ICAO: EGUW) was, between 1939 and 1993, the name of a Royal Air Force station located in East...
operational conversion units (OCUs) were training units of the Royal Air Force (RAF). With the introduction of new heavy bombers, the four-engined Short Stirling...
around the country. Other RAF stations involved in this exercise were RAF Honington and RAFStradishall, both in Suffolk. RAF West Malling is now the site...
and 21 August 1945 with the Short Stirling Mk.V before moving to RAF Stradishall. No. 166 Squadron between 20 January 1937 and 17 September 1939 using...
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
at RAF Bentley Priory stood down on 31 March 1996). Composed mainly of civilian spare-time volunteers, ROC personnel wore a Royal Air Force (RAF) style...
Most units of the Royal Air Force (RAF) are identified by a two character alphabetical or alpha- numeric combination squadron code. Usually, that code...
moved to RAF Elsham Wolds, also on 3 July 1940 (the same date when 103 Squadron arrived) No. 150 Squadron RAF arrived from RAFStradishall again initially...
No. 2 Air Navigation School on RAF Thorney Island until transferring to No. 1 Air Navigation School at RAFStradishall where they served until 1965. The...
controllability. The sole S.31 was scrapped after a takeoff accident at RAFStradishall, Suffolk, in February 1944. Meanwhile, before either of the prototypes...
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