List of former Royal Air Force stations

This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They are listed under any former county or country name which was appropriate for the duration of operation.

London Biggin Hill, a former RAF station

During 1991, the RAF had several Military Emergency Diversion Aerodrome (MEDA) airfields:RAF Kinloss, Leeming, Valley, Waddington, Wattisham & Lyneham ended their role from 1 March 1991, leaving Brize Norton, Manston, Leuchars and St Mawgan with the role.[1]

British Isles

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StationPundit Code[2]/
USAAF station code
CountryCountyYear openedyear closedNotes
RAF Abbots BromleyEnglandStaffordshire19401949Returned to agricultural use, small number of buildings remain.
RAF Abbots RiptonEnglandHuntingdonshire19381942Became part of RAF Alconbury.
RAF AbbotsinchScotlandRenfrewshire19331943Passed to Royal Navy / Fleet Air Arm in 1943, now Glasgow International Airport
RAF AberporthWalesCeredigion19411984Now West Wales Airport
RAF AbingdonABEnglandOxfordshire[a]19321992Transferred to the British Army and became Dalton Barracks. Airfield continued to be used for RAF helicopter training and gliding.
RAF Acaster MalbisAMEnglandWest Riding of Yorkshire19421957Returned to agricultural use, with elements as an industrial estate
RAF AcklingtonAIEnglandNorthumberland19161975Situated just south of a World War I landing ground known as Southfields. Now Her Majesty's Prison Northumberland (formerly Acklington and Castington)
RAF Akeman StreetEnglandOxfordshire19401947Returned to agricultural use
RAF AldeburghEnglandSuffolk19181919
RAF AldergroveJVNorthern IrelandCounty Antrim19182009Became Joint Helicopter Command Flying Station Aldergrove
RAF AldermastonAMEnglandBerkshire19421950Became part of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE), now Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE)
RAF All HallowsEnglandKent19161935WWI Class 3 landing ground
RAF AlnessYSScotlandRoss and Cromarty19201986Named RAF Invergordon until 1943. Flying boat station, subsequently RAF Marine Branch No. 1100 MCU until disbandment.
RAF Anderby CreekEnglandLincolnshirec.1939c.1945Second World War battle training school of the RAF Regiment; at or near Anderby Creek; no visible remains on satellite images
RAF Andrews FieldGZEnglandEssex19431948Originally known as RAF Great Saling
RAF AndoverAVEnglandHampshire19171976Now Marlborough Lines home to the HQ of the British Army
RAF AndreasVSIsle of Man19411947Remains in light use as a civilian airfield
RAF AngleAEWalesPembrokeshire19411950Returned to agricultural use
RAF AnnanAGScotlandDumfriesshire19421945Since 1955 the site of Chapelcross nuclear power station, which is being decommissioned
RAF AnstyEnglandWarwickshire19361953Occupied by Rolls-Royce as an engine overhaul and repair facility
RAF AnwickEnglandLincolnshire19161918Returned to agricultural use
RAF AppledramAO (day)EnglandSussex19431944Advanced Landing Ground (ALG)
RAF AscotEnglandBerkshire19161919
RAF AshbourneASEnglandDerbyshire19421954In various uses, including by JCB as a test and demonstration area
RAF AshEnglandKent19861995Site sold for civilian use, now a data centre.
RAF AshfordEnglandKent19431944ALG, near Egerton
RAF Aston DownADEnglandGloucestershire19381976In use as a civilian gliding airfield
RAF AtchamAPEnglandShropshire19411946
RAF AtherstoneEnglandWarwickshire19411942Renamed RAF Stratford.
RAF AttlebridgeATEnglandNorfolk19411956
RAF AtwickEnglandEast Riding of YorkshireJuly 19151919Hornsea Mere
RAF Ayr IScotlandAyrshire19171919Originally and now Ayr Racecourse
RAF Ayr IIARScotlandAyrshire19411957Also known as RAF Heathfield. Passed to Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm 1944-46 as HMS Wagtail. Reopened 1951 as storage annexe to RAF Prestwick.
RAF BabbacombeEnglandDevon19401945No. 1 Aircrew Receiving Centre, originally and now Babbacombe Theatre.
RAF Babdown FarmBFEnglandGloucestershire19401948(Relief Landing Ground – RLG)
RAF BactonEnglandNorfolk19151919First World War landing ground
RAF BagintonNGEnglandWarwickshire19391943Originally and now Coventry Airport
RAF Balado BridgeScotlandKinross-shire19421944Transferred to War Department 1944. Civil airfield 1946–1957.
RAF BaldertonBNEnglandNottinghamshire19411954
RAF BaldonnelRepublic of IrelandDublin19171965now Casement Aerodrome
RAF BallyhalbertYBNorthern IrelandCounty Down19411947Briefly transferred to Royal Navy during 1945
RAF BallykellyIYNorthern IrelandCounty Londonderry19411971Site transferred to Army as Shackleton Barracks
RAF BallywalterNorthern IrelandCounty Down19411945No. 16 Satellite Landing Ground
RAF Bampton CastleEnglandOxfordshire19392003established by Royal Signals Regiment, transferred to RAF Signals Command in 1965
RAF BanffAFScotlandBanffshire19431946
RAF BardneyBAEnglandLincolnshire19431963Built as a satellite to RAF Waddington
RAF BarkwayEnglandHertfordshire19422011Communications station
RAF BarnwoodEnglandGloucestershireRAF Record Office
RAF Barton BendishEnglandNorfolk19391942Second World War Landing Ground, as a satellite station to RAF Marham
RAF Barton HallEnglandLancashire19401975During WWII: Operations Centre of No. 9 Group RAF. Post-war: Preston Air Traffic Control Centre.
RAF BassingbournBSEnglandCambridgeshire19381969now Bassingbourn Barracks
RAF BawdseyEnglandSuffolk19361991Converted into a boarding school which operated between 1994 and 2016 and later a holiday park. Transmitter block now a radar museum.
RAF BawtryEnglandSouth Yorkshire19411986No. 1 Group Bomber Command H.Q. (during WWII), RAF Strike Command H.Q. & eventually RAF Meteorological Service H.Q. (post-war)
RAF BeaulieuBL/BQ[3]EnglandHampshire19151947Now a recreational area within the New Forrest.
RAF BecclesBEEnglandSuffolk19431945
RAF BekesbourneEnglandKent19161919

1940

Became Bekesbourne Aerodrome post-WWI, closed in July 1939. Used during May and June 1940 by No 2 and No 13 Squadrons.
RAF BelfastBelfastNorthern Ireland19411943Acquired as Sydenham Airport, transferred to RN in 1943 as HMS Gadwall; reverted from RNAS back to RAF 1973 and closed in 1978.
RAF BellasizeEnglandEast Riding of Yorkshire19161945Used between 1916 and 1919, reactivated for flying training between 1939, and 1945
RAF Belton ParkEnglandLincolnshire19421946Birthplace and original headquarters / training facility of the Royal Air Force Regiment
RAF BembridgeEnglandIsle of Wight19151920Seaplane base, also known as RNAS Bembridge Harbour
RAF BenbeculaBBScotlandInverness-shire19411947Airfield now Benbecula Airport. Nearby radar station now RRH Benbecula, an unmanned Remote Radar Head controlled by RAF Boulmer.
RAF Bentley PrioryEnglandMiddlesex19262008Converted to residential use. WW2 bunker, modernised in the 1980s, was demolished and filled in, as regarded not worth saving. Former Officers' Mess now the Bentley Priory Museum.[4]
RAF BentwatersBYEnglandSuffolk19441993Former major USAF base. Site sold and became a business park and TV/film location known as Bentwaters Parks with airfield infrastructure and buildings remaining. Bentwaters Cold War Museum opened in 2007.[5] Former USAF housing demolished and a new housing estate created.
RAF BerrowEnglandWorcestershire19411945No. 5 SLG also known as Pendock Moor
RAF BiburyBIEnglandGloucestershire19401945built as a relief landing ground for RAF South Cerney
RAF BicesterBCEnglandOxfordshire19171976now Bicester Airfield and home to Bicester Heritage
RAF Biggin HillEnglandKent19171992Formerly the Officer and Aircrew Selection Centre (OASC) before moving to RAF Cranwell in the early 1990s, now Biggin Hill Airport.
RAF BinbrookBKEnglandLincolnshire19401992Site sold, technical buildings and hangars in use as an industrial park, domestic site established as Brookenby village.
RAF BinsoeEnglandNorth Yorkshire19161919Used as a relief landing ground for RAF Ripon
RAF BirchBREnglandEssex19421945
RAF Bircham NewtonEnglandNorfolk19181966Technical site now the Construction Industry Training Board School
RAF BircotesBHEnglandSouth Yorkshire19411948Satellite airfield for RAF Finningley.
RAF BishopbriggsScotlandDunbartonshire19391966Originally a barrage balloon depot, later used for other non-flying purposes. Site now HM Prison Low Moss
RAF Bishops CourtICNorthern IrelandCounty Down19431990Originally an airfield but latterly a radar site.
RAF BisterneBSEnglandHampshire19431945USAAF ALG
RAF BitteswellBTEnglandLeicestershire19401947
RAF BlaenannerchWalesCeredigion19391941Renamed RAF Aberporth, now West Wales Airport
RAF Black IsleScotlandRoss and Cromarty19411945No. 42 Satellite Landing Ground
RAF BlackbusheEnglandHampshire19441960Now Blackbushe Airport
RAF BlackpoolEnglandLancashire19401945HQ was located at the Lansdowne Hotel on the North Shore
RAF Blakehill FarmXFEnglandWiltshire19441952Also known as RAF Cricklade
RAF BlakelawEnglandNorthumberland19401943HQ No. 13 Group RAF also known as RAF Newcastle
RAF Blankney HallEnglandLincolnshire19401946RAF Digby Sector operations room. Now demolished & site of a golf club.
RAF BlytonALEnglandLincolnshire19421954Now known the site of Blyton Park Driving Centre and is used for motorsport and track days.
RAF Boa IslandNorthern IrelandCounty Fermanagh19441945Satellite to RAF Killadeas flying boat station. Also known as Rock Bay.
RAF BobbingtonEnglandStaffordshire19411956Renamed RAF Halfpenny Green in 1943, now Wolverhampton Airport
RAF BoddingtonEnglandGloucestershire19402007Transferred to Defence Communication Services Agency (now Information Systems & Services) as ISS Boddington
RAF BodneyBOEnglandNorfolk19401945USAAF from 1943
RAF BodorganWalesAnglesey19401945No. 15 SLG, originally called Aberffraw until 15 May 1941
RAF BognorEnglandSussex19431944ALG
RAF Bolt HeadOHEnglandDevon19411945Second World War satellite airfield to RAF Exeter
RAF BookerEnglandBuckinghamshire19391951near (High Wycombe), now Wycombe Air Park
RAF BorehamJMEnglandEssex19441945
RAF Boscombe DownBDEnglandWiltshire19172001Airfield retained by the Ministry of Defence but operated by private contractor QinetiQ as MOD Boscombe Down. Home to the Aircraft Test and Evaluation Centre and Empire Test Pilots School (ETPS).
RAF BottesfordAQEnglandLeicestershire19411945
RAF BottishamIMEnglandCambridgeshire19401946
RAF BoulmerEnglandNorthumberland1940RAF Boulmer remains open, but the present radar control station is at a different location from the wartime airfield (which closed in the late 1960s). During the 1970s the former airfield communal site was redeveloped as an air-sea rescue helicopter base, which closed in 2015.
RAF BournAUEnglandCambridgeshire19411948
RAF BovingdonBVEnglandHertfordshire19421972Now site of Bovingdon Radar, a major air navigation facility for London Heathrow Airport and the surrounding airspace.
RAF BowmoreScotlandArgyllshire19401945Flying boat base, satellite to RAF Oban
RAF BoxtedBXEnglandEssex19431947A small museum is located on side of airfield.[6]
RAF Bracebridge HeathEnglandLincolnshire19161920Adjacent to RAF Waddington. Site used to for the recovery and restoration damaged Lancaster bomber parts for reuse in WWII & construction site of Avro 707 prototype aircraft.
RAF BracklaScotlandNairnshire19411947
RAF Staff College BracknellEnglandBerkshire19451997Joint Services Command and Staff College established at the site, which later moved to MOD Shrivenham. The site was subsequently sold for redevelopment in 2004.
RAF Bradwell BayEnglandEssex19411945
RAF BramcoteRTEnglandWarwickshire19401946Transferred to the Royal Navy in 1947 and became HMS Gamecock and in 1959 was transferred to the Army as Gamecock Barracks
RAF BramptonEnglandHuntingdonshire19422012Transferred to Joint Forces Command and became Brampton Camp RAF Wyton. Site subsequently sold for redevelopment and station buildings demolished.
RAF Brampton Wyton HenlowEnglandCambridgeshire and Bedfordshire20012012Tri-base area (also RAF Stanbridge not formally noted in name)
RAF BrattonEnglandShropshire19401945Relief landing ground of RAF Shawbury & Home of RAF Training Command, 25 Group Advanced Flying Unit
RAF BrawdyBWWalesPembrokeshire19441992Transferred to the British Army in 1995 and became Cawdor Barracks.
RAF BreightonACEnglandYorkshire19421946
RAF BrenzettEnglandKent19431944ALG, also known as Ivychurch
RAF BridgnorthEnglandShropshire1940Former recruit training establishment
RAF BridlingtonEnglandEast Riding of Yorkshire19291980Air gunnery and wireless operator courses held during the Second World War; No. 1104 MCU operated between 1929 and 1980[7]
RAF Brizlee WoodEnglandNorthumberland19681969NATO forward Scatter Unit. transferred to the Royal Signals Regiment in 1969.
RAF BroadwellJREnglandOxfordshire19431947
RAF BroughEnglandEast Riding of Yorkshire
RAF BruntingthorpeBPEnglandLeicestershire19421962now Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome and Proving Ground
RAF BruntonBNEnglandNorthumberland19421945Built as satellite to RAF Milfield. Post-war use as GA field and parachute club base ceased by 2004. Disused apart from a small air defence radar outstation of RAF Boulmer.[8]
RAF BuckminsterEnglandLincolnshire19161919First World War Royal Flying Corps base
RAF BungayJOEnglandSuffolk19421955Locally known as RAF Flixton. Allocated to USAAF & designated Station 125 during the Second World War. Following the war the station was transferred to the Royal Navy in 1945 to become HMS Europa, before control was returned to the RAF in 1946.
RAF Burgh CastleEnglandNorfolk19151919First World War Landing Ground (Royal Naval Air Service)
RAF BurnastonEnglandDerbyshire19391953Previously and later Derby Airport. Now a Toyota car plant.
RAF BurtonwoodEnglandCheshire19401994Buildings demolished and site sold for redevelopment, including Omega Business Park and junction 8 of the M62 motorway.
RAF BurnAZEnglandYorkshire19421945
RAF Bury St EdmundsBUEnglandSuffolk19421948Also designated to USAAF Station 468 at some point in WWII
RAF ButleyEnglandSuffolk19421943Former name for RAF Bentwaters
RAF ButtergaskScotlandPerthshire19411945Relief landing ground for RAF Perth
RAF Bylaugh HallEnglandNorfolk19431945No. 100 (Bomber Support) Group H.Q.
RAF CaerauWalesCardiff19391944HQ No. 14 Balloon Unit (and HQ Cardiff Group Royal Observer Corps from 1953 to 1968). Name changed to RAF Llandaff in 1946.
RAF CaerwentWalesMonmouthshire19671993Transferred to the Defence Training Estate and became the Caerwent Training Area, predominately used by the British Army.
RAF CaistorEnglandLincolnshire19401963Now returned to agricultural use
RAF CalshotKTEnglandHampshire19131961Was No. 238 Maintenance Unit (238MU). Maintained Air Sea Rescue launches. RAF Mount Batten took over this work upon closure.
RAF CalveleyKYEnglandCheshire19421946
RAF CambridgeEnglandCambridgeshire19381954RAF use of Marshalls airfield at Teversham, now Cambridge Airport
RAF CammeringhamEnglandLincolnshire19421945(previously RAF Ingham)
RAF CardingtonEnglandBedfordshire19152000Sold for residential redevelopment and various private uses. Former airship sheds remain and are designated as listed buildings. Part of the site is retained by the Ministry of Defence and leased to the Met Office.
RAF Carew CheritonWalesPembrokeshire19391945
RAF CarkKAEnglandLancashire19411945
RAF CarnabyKQEnglandYorkshire19441963
RAF Castle ArchdaleQANorthern IrelandCounty Fermanagh19411958Flying boat station. Briefly known as RAF Loch Erne between 1941 – 1943.
RAF Castle BromwichEnglandWarwickshire19151958was the Castle Bromwich Aerodrome until 1958
RAF Castle CampsCCEnglandCambridgeshire19401946
RAF Castle CombeEnglandWiltshire19411948Second World War Practice Landing Ground for RAF Hullavington. Now Castle Combe Circuit.
RAF Castle DoningtonCDEnglandLeicestershire19431946Satellite airfield to RAF Wymeswold. Now East Midlands Airport.
RAF Castle KennedyQKScotlandWigtownshire19411945Since 2004, Castle Kennedy has been made available for use General Aviation and commercial use within the applicable regulations. The airfield is unlicensed, and used at the pilots own risk and discretion. The airfield is strictly PPR.
RAF CastletownAXScotlandCaithness19401945
RAF CatfirthScotlandShetland19171919
RAF CatfossCAEnglandYorkshire19321963
RAF CatterickAKEnglandYorkshire19141994Transferred to the British Army and became Marne Barracks.
RAF CattewaterEnglandDevon19181923Formally Royal Naval Air Station Cattewate (1913–18). Re-opened in 1928 as RAF Mount Batten.
RAF Caxton GibbetEnglandCambridgeshire19401944RLG
RAF ChaileyEnglandSussex19431945ALG
RAF ChalgroveEnglandOxfordshire19431947Leased to ejection seat manufacturer Martin-Baker and known as Chalgrove Airfield. Ownership transferred to Homes England in 2016 with intention of redeveloping for 3,000 homes.
RAF Charlton HorethorneEnglandSomerset19411942later RNAS Charlton Horethorne (HMS Heron II)
RAF Charmy DownCHEnglandSomerset19401946
RAF CharterhallKHScotlandBerwickshire19421946
RAF Chattis HillEnglandHampshire19171919
RAF CheadleEnglandStaffordshire19391964Operations transferred to Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and station became known as GCHQ Cheadle.
RAF ChedburghCUEnglandSuffolk19421952Near Bury St Edmunds
RAF CheddingtonCZEnglandBuckinghamshire19421952USAAF from 1944
RAF ChedworthYWEnglandGloucestershire19421950Primarily used for training. Now primarily agricultural land.
RAF ChelvestonCVEnglandNorthamptonshire19411962USAAF from 1944
RAF CherhillEnglandWiltshire19541958Formerly and later RAF Yatesbury.
RAF Chesil BankEnglandDorsetSecond World War Bombing Ranges Unit with an Emergency Landing Ground
RAF ChessingtonEnglandSurrey19381985Formerly a Balloon station, latterly a research Hospital
RAF ChicksandsEnglandBedfordshire19361997Transferred to the British Army and became the Defence Intelligence and Security Centre (DISC) and the headquarters of the Intelligence Corps. Now the Joint Intelligence Training Group (JITG).
RAF ChigwellEnglandEssex19331958Barrage balloon site
RAF ChilboltonCIEnglandHampshire19401945
RAF ChilmarkEnglandWiltshire19371995Retained by the Ministry of Defence and later sold for various civilian uses.
RAF Chipping NortonEnglandOxfordshire19401945Satellite station primarily used for training
RAF Chipping OngarJCEnglandEssex19431946USAAF from 1944
RAF Chipping WardenCWEnglandOxfordshire19411946
RAF ChivenorIVEnglandDevon19401995Transferred to the Royal Marines and became RMB Chivenor.
RAF ChristchurchCHEnglandHampshire19401945known as Christchurch Airfield in peacetime between 1926 and 1966.
RAF Church BroughtonCBEnglandDerbyshire19421963Opened as a satellite station of RAF Lichfield
RAF Church FentonCFEnglandNorth Yorkshire19372013Site sold and became Leeds East Airport.
RAF Church LawfordCLEnglandWarwickshire19411955
RAF Church StantonEnglandSomerset19411943renamed RAF Culmhead
RAF CleaveEnglandCornwall19391945(GCHQ CSO Morwenstow)
RAF CluntoeUKNorthern IrelandCounty Tyrone19421955near Ardboe
RAF Clyffe PypardEnglandWiltshire19411947Used as accommodation for by RAF Lyneham and later used by the British Army for battle practice until 1961. Now reclaimed as agricultural land.
RAF Coal AstonEnglandYorkshire19181920Opened as a Royal Flying Corps airfield in 1916
RAF Coleby GrangeCGEnglandLincolnshire19401946
RAF ColerneCQEnglandWiltshire19401976Transferred to the British Army and became Azimghur Barracks. Airfield retain for occasional flying.
RAF CollinstownRepublic of IrelandDublin19181922now Dublin Airport.
RAF CollywestonEnglandNorthamptonshire19181941Landing ground, consumed when absorbed by the westerly runway extension at RAF Wittering to the east
RAF ColtishallCSEnglandNorfolk19382006Site sold for redevelopment including construction of HM Prison Bure and a solar farm. Majority of the station now designated as a conservation area and known as Scottow Enterprise Park. Former married quarters now known as Badersfield.
RAF Compton BassetEnglandWiltshire19401947
RAF CondoverDVEnglandShropshire19421945Satellite station of RAF Shawbury & Relief Landing Ground for RAF Ternhill. Primarily use for fighter pilots training by both RAF & USAAF.
RAF ConnelKOScotlandArgyllshire1945Now Oban Airport.
RAF CookstownRepublic of IrelandDublin (now South County Dublin).19181922now Cookstown Industrial Estate.

*Aerodrome buildings were used by Urney's Chocolate factory for a period.

RAF CoolhamEnglandSussex19431944ALG
RAF CopmanthorpeEnglandYorkshire19181919Opened as a Royal Flying Corps airfield in 1916
RAF CorsewallScotlandWigtownshire19421947Marine Craft Training School
RAF CottamCMEnglandYorkshire19391934Satellite station to RAF Driffield
RAF CottesmoreCTEnglandRutland19382012Transferred to the British Army and became Kendrew Barracks.
RAF CottenhamEnglandCambridgeshire19181919Former Royal Flying Corps airfield opened in 1916 as a night landing ground
RAF CovehitheEnglandSuffolk19181919Former Royal Naval Air Service airfield opened in 1915
RAF CowdenEnglandYorkshire19501998Bombing range
RAF CrailScotlandFife19181919Reopened by Royal Naval Fleet Air Arm in 1940
RAF CramlingtonEnglandNorthumberland19181919Opened as a Royal Flying Corps airfield in 1915
RAF CranageRGEnglandCheshire19401945
RAF CranfieldCXEnglandBedfordshire19371952Now Cranfield University and Cranfield Airport
RAF CredenhillEnglandHerefordshire19401994Transferred to the British Army and became Stirling Lines.
RAF CroftCREnglandYorkshire19411956Now Croft Circuit
RAF CroftEnglandCheshire19561959originally accommodation for Fleet Air Arm base HMS Gosling (1942-1950s), the station was used as a processing & billeting centre for personnel traveling between the UK and US by USAF Burtonwood.
RAF Crosby on EdenKXEnglandCumbria19411944Now Carlisle Lake District Airport
RAF CroydonEnglandSurrey19161946Later Croydon Airport, now a retail/industrial estate
RAF CulhamEnglandOxfordshire19401953as RNAS Culham
RAF CulmheadUCEnglandSomerset19411946
RAF DalcrossDZScotlandInverness-shire19411953Now Inverness Airport
RAF DaleWalesPembrokeshire19421943became RNAS Dale (HMS Goldcrest)
RAF DallachyDIScotlandBanffshire19431945
RAF DaltonDAEnglandYorkshire19411945
RAF Darley MoorDMEnglandDerbyshire19421955Now Darley Moor Airfield
RAF Davidstow MoorDDEnglandCornwall19421945
RAF Daws HillEnglandBuckinghamshire19442007Site sold for residential redevelopment, most station buildings demolished, former bunker now listed.
RAF DeanlandEnglandSussex19431944ALG
RAF DebachDCEnglandSuffolk19441945(USAAF)
RAF DebdenDBEnglandEssex19371975Used by both US 8th Air Force and RAF Fighter Command in Second World War. Now home to HQ Essex Wing RAF Air Cadets and Carver Barracks (Army).
RAF DeenethorpeDPEnglandNorthamptonshire19431946
RAF DeffordDFEnglandWorcestershire19411957RAF Defford museum is now housed within the National Trust property of Croome.
RAF DenhamEnglandBuckinghamshire19151940sFlight training base, now Denham Aerodrome
RAF Deopham GreenDGEnglandNorfolk19441948Assigned to USAAF & designated Station 142
RAF DesboroughDSEnglandNorthamptonshire19441948Assigned to USAAF
RAF DesfordEnglandLeicestershire19161953Owned by Caterpillar Inc. since 1953, now an industrial site.
RAF DetlingEnglandKent19161959
RAF DigbyDJEnglandLincolnshire19181953Known as RAF Scopwick (1918–1920), Joint Service Signals Organisation Digby from 1998.
RAF DishforthDHEnglandNorth Yorkshire19361992Transferred to the British Army's Army Air Corps and became Dishforth Airfield.
RAF DockingDKEnglandNorfolk19401958Satellite station of RAF Bircham Newton, returned to agricultural use.
RAF DoncasterEnglandYorkshire19161954formerly RFC Doncaster (1914) Royal Flying Corps
RAF DonibristleScotlandFife19171939Opened by Royal Naval Air Service in 1917 and returned to the Royal Navy (Fleet Air Arm) in 1939 as HMS Merlin RNAS Donibristle
RAF Donna NookZNEnglandLincolnshire19271945Offshore bombing range
RAF DornochScotlandSutherland19411945No. 40 Satellite Landing Ground.
RAF DounreayDNScotlandCaithness19441954Airfield built for RAF but not used. Transferred to Royal Navy later in 1944 but never commissioned, and subsequently returned to Air Ministry. Never having become operational, it closed in 1954 and the northern area was absorbed by the Dounreay Nuclear Power Development Establishment.
RAF DoverEnglandKent19181919Airship and seaplane base
RAF Down AmpneyXAEnglandGloucestershire19441946
RAF Downham MarketDOEnglandNorfolk19421946
RAF DremDEScotlandEast Lothian19161946World War I landing ground known as West Fenton and subsequently RAF Gullane, which closed in 1919. Reopened as RAF Drem in 1939. Passed to Royal Navy as HMS Nighthawk in 1945–46.
RAF DriffieldDREnglandEast Riding of Yorkshire19181977Formerly RAF Eastburn. Now British Army, Alamein Barracks.
RAF DumfriesDUScotlandDumfriesshire19401957aka RAF Tinwald Downs, now Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum
RAF DundeeScotlandAngus19141919Seaplane base inherited from Royal Naval Air Service in 1918, also known as Stannergate. Reopened by Royal Navy in 1940.
RAF DundonaldScotlandAyrshire19401945
RAF Dunholme LodgeDLEnglandLincolnshire19431964
RAF DuninoScotlandFife19411942became RNAS Dunino (HMS Jackdaw II) in 1942
RAF DunkeswellDWEnglandDevon19431949USN from 1944
RAF DunsfoldEnglandSurrey19421945later BAE Systems Dunsfold, now Dunsfold Aerodrome, and Top Gear studio and race track
RAF DurringtonEnglandWest Sussex1941Radar station. The former GCI radar station is being used as Palatine School, a school for those with special educational needs. The site underwent a major redevelopment in 2006 and was extended from the radar station building to accommodate more pupils.
RAF DuxfordDXEnglandCambridgeshire19181963Put on Care and Maintenance from end of First World War in 1918 until the formation of RAF Fighter Command. Used by Both RAF Fighter Command and the US 8th Air Force during the Second World War, then home to RAF Strike Command until closure. Now operated by the Imperial War Museum, Duxford since falling derelict after making 'The Battle of Britain' film in 1968.
RAF DyceDYScotlandAberdeenshire19371957Opened in 1934 as Aberdeen Airport, which it remains.
RAF DymchurchEnglandKent19151920Balloon station, also aircraft. Site considered for WWII ALG
RAF Earls ColneECEnglandEssex19431947now Earls Colne Airfield
RAF EastbourneEnglandSussex19141920
RAF East FortuneEFScotlandEast Lothian19161960Former Royal Naval Air Service station. Closed 1920 but reopened 1940.
RAF East KirkbyEKEnglandLincolnshire19431970
RAF East MoorEMEnglandYorkshire19421946RCAF from 1944
RAF East WrethamUTEnglandNorfolk19401946USAAF from 1944
RAF EastchurchEnglandKent19121947Now HMP Stamford Hill
RAF EastleighEnglandHampshire19101920

1961

Was RNAS Raven when operated by the Royal Navy in WW2, reopened 1961, now Southampton Airport
RAF EdlesboroughEnglandBuckinghamshirec. 19392012Communications site satellite of RAF Stanbridge
RAF EdgehillEHEnglandOxfordshirenow Shenington Gliding Club
RAF EdzellEZScotlandAngus19401997World War 1 airfield nearby operated 1918–19. New airfield opened 1940. Flying ceased 1957, thereafter to United States Navy for electronic surveillance, now in private use as a materials storage area.
RAF EglintonQMNorthern IrelandCounty Londonderry19411943To Fleet Air Arm in 1943 as HMS Gannet. Now City of Derry Airport, Derry
RAF ElginScotlandMorayshire19401947
RAF Elsham WoldsESEnglandLincolnshire19411947
RAF ElvingtonEVEnglandYorkshire19421958Airfield retained until 1992 as a relief landing ground for RAF flying training schools at Church Fenton and Linton-on-Ouse, later sold in 1999. Technical site preserved as Yorkshire Air Museum, which opened in 1986.
RAF ElyWalesSouth Glamorgan(No 14 Balloon Centre Cardiff)
RAF Hospital ElyEnglandCambridgeshire19391992Transferred to NHS as Princess of Wales Hospital, Ely.
RAF ElmdonEnglandWarwickshire19391946Previously and now Birmingham Airport
RAF EnstoneENEnglandOxfordshirenow Enstone Airfield
RAF ErrolERScotlandPerthshire19421948
RAF EshottEnglandNorthumberland19421945
RAF EvantonETScotlandRoss and Cromarty19221944Known as RAF Novar until 1937. Transferred to Royal Navy as HMS Fieldfare
RAF ExeterEXEnglandDevon19371946Previously and now Exeter International Airport
RAF EyeEYEnglandSuffolk19441945USAAF. Now an industrial estate.
RAF FairoaksEnglandSurrey19371967Now Fairoaks Airport
RAF FairlopEnglandEssex19411945
RAF Fairwood CommonFCWalesWest Glamorgan19411946Now Swansea Airport
RAF FaldingworthFHEnglandLincolnshire19431972Now operated as a Government test facility for munitions.
RAF FarnboroughEnglandHampshire19111996Former Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough, now Farnborough Airport
RAF FauldEnglandStaffordshire1973Underground bomb stores, see RAF Fauld Explosion of December 1944
RAF FazakerleyEnglandLancashire
RAF FearnScotlandRoss and Cromarty19411942Transferred to Royal Navy in 1942 as HMS Owl.
RAF FelixstoweEnglandSuffolk19131962
RAF FersfieldWFEnglandNorfolk19441945(USAAF)
RAF Filey TownEnglandYorkshire
RAF FiltonEnglandGloucestershire19161957Later Bristol Filton Airport, now closed
RAF Findo GaskFGScotlandPerthshire19411948Originally no. 25 Satellite Landing Ground, but later developed into full aerodrome.
RAF FinmereFIEnglandBuckinghamshire19411945
RAF FinningleyFBEnglandYorkshire19151996Later Doncaster Sheffield Airport, closed 2022
RAF FirbeckEnglandYorkshire19401945
RAF FiskertonFNEnglandLincolnshire19431945
RAF FlowerdownEnglandHampshire19191929Later HMS Flowerdown until 1956 and GCHQ until 1979. One of the Y-stations. Now Sir John Moore Barracks, Army Training Regiment
RAF FolkestoneEnglandKent19151918Airship station, previously RNAS Capel-le-Ferne. Site used for a wireless station during WWII
RAF FolkinghamFO/FK (USAAF)EnglandLincolnshire19431963(USAAF 1944–1945)
RAF FordEnglandSussex19181920

1940

Became HMS Peregrine in 1940, now Ford Open Prison
RAF FordounFRScotlandKincardineshire19421950
RAF ForelandEnglandIsle of Wight19181919Seaplane base
RAF ForresScotlandMorayshire19401944Transferred to War Department in 1944.
RAF FoulshamFUEnglandNorfolk19421945
RAF FowlmereFWEnglandCambridgeshire19181945Returned to agriculture following the end of First World War. Reactivated at the outbreak of Second World War in 1939. Used by US 8th Air Force and RAF Fighter Command during Second World War. Returned to agriculture at the end of hostilities.
RAF FramlinghamFMEnglandSuffolk19431945USAAF. Also known as RAF Parham. Returned to agriculture and small industrial estate; control tower now Parham Airfield Museum.[9]
RAF FraserburghFBScotlandAberdeenshire19411945
RAF FreckletonEnglandLancashire19531962Operated as a Medical Training Unit. Originally part of RAF Warton, but, in 1947, following the sale of the main Warton Airfield site to the English Electric Company, the site used as a Medical Training Unit became part of RAF Lytham. When RAF Lytham closed in 1956, the site continued to offer Medical Training and was designated as RAF Freckleton.
RAF FreistonEnglandLincolnshire19161919(formerly RNAS Freiston – became an RAF station in 1918)
RAF FristonEnglandSussex19361945
RAF Frost Hill Farm[10]EnglandHampshire19401945ALG
RAF FulbeckFK/FB (USAAF)EnglandLincolnshire19411970(USAAF 1943–1944)
RAF Full SuttonFSEnglandYorkshire19441963private flying and HM Prison Full Sutton
RAF FuntingtonEnglandSussex19431944ALG
RAF GamstonGBEnglandNottinghamshire19421957now Retford Gamston Airport
RAF GatwickEnglandSurrey19371946Now London Gatwick Airport
RAF GaydonEnglandWarwickshire19421974Part of the site is now the Heritage Motor Centre
RAF GlattonGTEnglandCambridgeshire19431946(USAAF)
RAF GormanstonRepublic of IrelandCounty Meath1917Feb 1920Now the Irish Army Gormanston Camp
RAF GosfieldEnglandEssex19431945
RAF GosportEnglandHampshire19151945Became HMS Siskin in 1945
RAF GoxhillGXEnglandLincolnshire19411953(USAAF)
RAF Grafton UnderwoodGUEnglandNorthamptonshire19431959(USAAF)
RAF GrainEnglandKent19161924Airship and seaplane base, also known as RAF Port Victoria
RAF GrangemouthScotlandStirlingshire19391955Also known as Central Scotland Airport
RAF Gransden LodgeGDEnglandBedfordshire19421955
RAF GranthamEnglandLincolnshire(renamed RAF Spitalgate) – now a Territorial Army establishment
RAF GraveleyGREnglandHuntingdonshire19421968
RAF GravesendEnglandKent19371956Now Gravesend Airport
RAF Great AshfieldGA ?EnglandSuffolk19431960(USAAF)
RAF Great DunmowGDEnglandEssex19431958(USAAF)
RAF Great MassinghamGMEnglandNorfolk19401958
RAF Great SampfordEnglandEssex19421948(joint RAF/USAAF use)
RAF Great WitcombeEnglandGloucestershire
RAF Great YarmouthEnglandNorfolkFirst World War landing ground
RAF GreathamEnglandCounty DurhamAlso known as RAF West Hartlepool
RAF GreatworthEnglandNorthamptonshire19431992HF Transmitter Site. Provided long range communications using Short Wave Transmitters. Sold for civilian uses and became Greatworth Park Business Park, utilising station buildings.
RAF GreencastleNorthern IrelandCounty Down19421945(USAAF)
RAF Greenham CommonEnglandBerkshire19421993Technical site now a business park, with remainder of the station a public parkland known as Greenham and Crookham Commons.
RAF Greenland TopEnglandLincolnshire(Also known as RAF Stallingborough)
RAF GreenockScotlandRenfrewshire19401945Flying boat maintenance facility
RAF GrimsbyGYEnglandLincolnshire19411946(aka RAF Waltham)
RAF GrimsetterScotlandOrkney19401943Also known as RAF Kirkwall. Transferred to Royal Navy in 1943 as HMS Robin. Now Kirkwall Airport.
RAF Grimsthorpe ParkEnglandLincolnshire
RAF GroveEnglandBerkshire19421946(USAAF)
RAF Guston Road[11]EnglandKent19141919see also Duke of York's Royal Military School, Dover
RAF Hack GreenEnglandCheshirenow Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker
RAF HalesworthHAEnglandSuffolk19421946(USAAF)
RAF Halfpenny GreenEnglandStaffordshire19411953Formerly RAF Bobbington (now Wolverhampton Airport)
RAF Hall CaineIsle of ManFormerly Hall Caine Airport, now farmland
RAF Hospital HaltonEnglandBuckinghamshire19271995Demolished in 2008, site sold and redeveloped for housing. Not to be confused with RAF Halton.
RAF HambleEnglandHampshire19311978
RAF HammerwoodEnglandSussex19431944ALG
RAF Hampstead NorrisHNEnglandBerkshire
RAF HamworthyEnglandDorsetshire
RAF HandforthEnglandCheshire
RAF HanworthEnglandSurrey
RAF HardwickHCEnglandNorfolk19421962(USAAF)
RAF HarlaxtonEnglandLincolnshire
RAF Harling RoadEnglandNorfolk19181920First World War landing ground opened in 1916 and used by the Royal Flying Corps and the United States Army Air Corps
RAF HarpswellEnglandLincolnshire(later renamed as RAF Hemswell)
RAF Harpur HillEnglandDerbyshireMunitions storage depot
RAF Hartford BridgeEnglandHampshire19411953Later renamed RAF Blackbushe, now Blackbushe Airport
RAF HarringtonEnglandNorthamptonshire19431963(USAAF)
RAF HarrogateEnglandYorkshire19401994Sold, buildings demolished and site redeveloped for housing.
RAF HarrowbeerQBEnglandDevon19411950
RAF HarwellHWEnglandOxfordshire19371945
RAF HatfieldEnglandHertfordshire19391956RAF/ATA use of de Havilland's Hatfield Aerodrome

((RAF Hatston))((Orkneys))19391945Previously a civil site, the Royal Navy took it over as HMS Sparrowhawk, now agricultural with some light industry

RAF HaverfordwestWalesPembrokeshire19431956
RAF HawardenWalesFlintshire1939195748 MU Aircraft Storage Unit, now Hawarden Airport
RAF HawkingeEnglandKent19141963
RAF HaydockEnglandLancashireAlso known as RAF Blackbrook
RAF HeadcornHCEnglandKent19431945(USAAF ALG)
RAF Heath RowEnglandGreater LondonNow London Heathrow Airport
RAF Headley CourtEnglandSurrey19461985Subsequently the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre operated by Defence Medical Services, part of Joint Forces Command.[citation needed] Now closed, DMRC relocating to a new site in Leicestershire.
RAF HelperbyEnglandNorth Yorkshire19161947First World War airfield, used as an ammunition dump in the Second World War
RAF HednesfordEnglandStaffordshire19381956
RAF HelensburghScotlandDunbartonshire19391945Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment
RAF Hell's MouthWalesGwynedd
RAF HemswellHLEnglandLincolnshire19371967
RAF HendonEnglandMiddlesex19101957Airfield redeveloped into Graham Park housing estate (early 1970s-on) and RAF Museum, London.
RAF Henley-on-ThamesEnglandOxfordshire
RAF HerefordEnglandHerefordshire19401994Transferred to the British Army and became Stirling Lines.
RAF HestonEnglandMiddlesex
RAF HethelHLEnglandNorfolk19421947now owned by Lotus Cars
RAF HeywoodEnglandLancashireMaintenance Unit
RAF HibaldstowEnglandLincolnshire19411945
RAF High ErcallEnglandShropshire19411962
RAF HighgateEnglandMiddlesex19421948Home to RAF Intelligence training during WW2. In former Caen Wood Towers (now Athlone House)
RAF High HaldenHHEnglandKent19431944(USAAF ALG)
RAF HinghamEnglandNorfolkFirst World War landing ground
RAF HinstockEnglandShropshire19411947Co-located with RN Fleet Air Arm station HMS Godwit. Specialised in instrument and blind landing technologies.
RAF Hinton-in-the-HedgesHIEnglandNorthamptonshire19401945now Hinton-in-the-Hedges Airfield
RAF HixonHXEnglandStaffordshire19421957
RAF Hockley HeathEnglandWarwickshire
RAF HolbeachEnglandLincolnshireAir Weapons Range
RAF Holme-on-Spalding MoorHMEnglandYorkshire19411953
RAF Holmsley SouthHMEnglandHampshire19421946
RAF HoltEnglandNorfolkFirst World War landing ground
RAF HoneybourneHQEnglandWorcestershire19411946
RAF HonileyEnglandWarwickshire19411958
RAF Hooton ParkEnglandCheshire19171957
RAF HoptonEnglandSuffolk
RAF HorhamJHEnglandSuffolk19421963(USAAF)
RAF Hornby HallEnglandWestmorland19411945No. 9 SLG
RAF HornchurchEnglandEssex19281962Formerly WW1 Flight Station of RFC/RAF Sutton's Farm
RAF HorneEnglandSurrey19431944ALG
RAF Horsham St FaithHFEnglandNorfolk19401963Now Norwich Airport
RAF HucknallEnglandNottinghamshire19161957
RAF HullavingtonEnglandWiltshire19371993Technical site transferred to the British Army and became Hullavington Barracks, later renamed Buckley Barracks in 2003. Airfield retained by the RAF for gliding operations and known as Hullavington Airfield, with flying ceasing in 2016 and the site sold to technology company Dyson.
RAF Hunmanby MoorEnglandYorkshire19391945Also known as RAF Filey Camp, later Butlin's Filey
RAF HunsdonEnglandHertfordshire19411947
RAF HurnKUEnglandHampshire19411944Now Bournemouth Airport
RAF Husbands BosworthHZEnglandLeicestershire19431956now agriculture, a gliding club is resident to the north of the public road that crosses the site from east to west
RAF Hutton CranswickCKEnglandYorkshire19421946
RAF HytheEnglandHampshire19151919
RAF IbsleyIBEnglandHampshire19411947
RAF ImminghamEnglandLincolnshire(formerly RNAS Immingham – transferred to RAF in 1918)
RAF InghamEnglandLincolnshire(later named RAF Cammeringham)
RAF InnsworthEnglandGloucestershire19402008Was the RAF Records Centre, transferred to British Army and became NATO Station Innsworth, Imjin Barracks
RAF Isle of GrainEnglandKent(pre-RAF) RNAS airship station, then RAF Isle of Grain
RAF Joyce GreenEnglandKent19141919Coincidentally Vickers testing aerodrome 1910–1919
RAF JurbyIsle of Man19391972
RAF Jurby HeadIsle of Man19391993Former inshore air weapons range. Ordnance periodically continues to be washed ashore onto adjacent beaches or brought up in fishing nets.
RAF KeevilEnglandWiltshire19421965
RAF KelsternKSEnglandLincolnshire19431945
RAF KembleEnglandGloucestershire19381984
RAF KenleyEnglandCroydon19171974Airfield retained by the Ministry of Defence and used for gliding. Some parts of former station sold for residential redevelopment.
RAF KidbrookeEnglandLondon19171965The site was mainly used as a stores, maintenance and training facility, and now is used for housing and schools.
RAF KidlingtonEnglandOxfordshire19381951now Oxford Airport
RAF KidsdaleScotlandWigtownshire19371943Joint RAF/Army gunnery range, 'Queen Bee' unmanned aircraft launch site – also known as Burrow Head. To War Department in 1943.
RAF KilladeasNorthern IrelandCounty Fermanagh19421947
RAF KimboltonKIEnglandHuntingdonshire19411946(USAAF)
RAF Kings CliffeEnglandNorthamptonshire19411959(USAAF)
RAF KingsnorthEnglandKent19141919WWI formerly RNAS Kingsnorth, Isle of Grain, 51° 22' 25" N 0° 36' 07" E, Airship station on the Isle of Grain. Not to be confused with RAF Isle of Grain 51° 26' 21" N 0° 42' 46" E
RAF KingsnorthKNEnglandKent19431943(WWII ALG) near Ashford
RAF Kingstown
RAF Carlisle
EnglandCumbria19381996Sites sold for civilian use including residential development and Kingmoor Business Park.
RAF KinlossKWScotlandMorayshire19392012Transferred to the British Army and became Kinloss Barracks. Maintained as a Relief Landing Ground (RLG) for RAF Lossiemouth.
RAF KinnellScotlandAngus19421948
RAF KirkbrideEnglandCumbria19391960
RAF KirkhamEnglandLancashire19401957Part of the site is now HM Prison Kirkham
RAF KirkistownNorthern IrelandCounty Down19411946On loan to Royal Navy 1945-46 as "HMS Corncrake II"
RAF KirknewtonScotlandMidlothian1941Since 1967 the airfield has been used by No. 661 Volunteer Gliding School
RAF KirkpatrickScotlandDumfriesshire19401945Relief Landing Ground for RAF Kingstown
RAF KirktonScotlandSutherland19411945No. 41 Satellite Landing Ground.
RAF KirmingtonKGEnglandLincolnshire19421953Now Humberside Airport
RAF Kirton in LindseyKLEnglandLincolnshire19401966

2013

RAF KnettishallKNEnglandSuffolk19431959(USAAF)
RAF LangarLAEnglandNottinghamshire
RAF Langford LodgeNorthern IrelandCounty Antrim19421953Intended as no. 20 Satellite Landing Ground but completed as a full airfield.
RAF LanghamEnglandNorfolk19401961
RAF LarkhillEnglandWiltshire19181942Also known as RAF Knighton Down
RAF LashamEnglandHampshire19421948now Lasham Airfield
RAF LashendenEnglandKent19431945(ALG), now Lashenden (Headcorn) Airfield
RAF LavenhamLVEnglandSuffolk19431948(USAAF)
RAF LeadenhamEnglandLincolnshire
RAF LeanachScotlandInverness-shire19411945No. 43 Satellite Landing Ground
RAF LeconfieldLCEnglandEast Riding of Yorkshire19361977Transferred to British Army and became the Army School of Mechanical Transport, subsequently the Defence School of Transport.
RAF Lee-on-SolentEnglandHampshire19171939Transferred to Navy as RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus) in 1939
RAF Leicester EastEnglandLeicestershireNow Leicester Airport
RAF LeistonEnglandSuffolk19431953(USAAF)
RAF LennoxloveScotlandEast Lothian19411945No. 27 Satellite Landing Ground.
RAF LeucharsScotlandFife19202015Transferred to the British Army and became Leuchars Station. Maintained as a Relief Landing Ground (RLG) for RAF Lossiemouth.
RAF LichfieldLFEnglandStaffordshire19401958
RAF LimavadyNorthern IrelandCounty Londonderry19401945
RAF LindholmeLBEnglandYorkshire19401985(previously called RAF Hatfield Woodhouse), now HM Prison Lindholme
RAF Linton-on-OuseLOEnglandYorkshire19362020Station closed with no alternative military use proposed. Site expected to be disposed of by the Ministry of Defence.[12]
RAF LissettLTEnglandYorkshire19431945
RAF Little HorwoodLHEnglandBuckinghamshire
RAF Little RissingtonLREnglandGloucestershire19381994Still in use by 637 VGS and 621 VGS (Volunteer Gliding Squadron)
RAF Little SnoringLSEnglandNorfolk19431958
RAF Little StaughtonLXEnglandCambridgeshire19421945
RAF Little WaldenLLEnglandEssex19441945(USAAF)
RAF LlanbedrWalesGwynedd
RAF LlandaffWalesCardiff19461980Formerly RAF Caerau
RAF LlandowWalesSouth Glamorgan19401957now Llandow Circuit
RAF LlandwrogWalesGwynedd
RAF LockingEnglandSomerset19371998Site sold and station buildings demolished, redeveloped for commercial and residential use.
RAF Long KeshNorthern IrelandCounty Antrim19411948subsequently HM Prison Maze, now closed
RAF Long MarstonJSEnglandWarwickshire
RAF LongbentonEnglandNorthumberlandvehicle storage unit
RAF LongmanScotlandInverness-shire19401946Also known as RAF Inverness. Opened as Inverness Airport in 1933, but replaced by present Inverness Airport (former RAF Dalcross) in 1947.
RAF Longley LaneEnglandLancashire
RAF LoughboroughEnglandLeicestershire
RAF Low EldrigScotlandWigtownshire19411944No. 11 Satellite Landing Ground. Only used during summer months of 1941 and 1942.
RAF Ludford MagnaLMEnglandLincolnshire19431963
RAF LudhamEnglandNorfolk19411946Also RNAS Ludham/HMS Flycatcher, now unlicensed private landing strip.
RAF Lulsgate BottomEnglandSomerset19401946Now Bristol Airport
RAF LutonEnglandBedfordshire19381946Now London Luton Airport
RAF Lydd (WWII)EnglandKent19431944WWII ALG – not the current Lydd Airport
RAF LymingtonLYEnglandHampshire19421944ALG
RAF LympneEnglandKent19161946Also served as Lympne Airport between the wars and post WWII, and as HMS Buzzard / HMS Daedalus II 1938–40
RAF LynehamEnglandWiltshire19402012Transferred to British Army and became MOD Lyneham, home to the new Defence School of Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, part of the Defence College of Technical Training (DCTT) .
RAF LythamEnglandLancashire19471956Originally part of RAF Warton, but when the main airfield site was sold to the English Electric Company in 1947, one of the outlying sites was designated as RAF Lytham, and was used as a Transit Camp and for Medical Training. This site closed in 1956, with the Medical Training Unit moving to another nearby site with the designated name of RAF Freckleton.
RAF MachrihanishScotlandArgyllshire19181996Briefly used as an airfield during 1918. Reopened by Royal Navy in 1941 as HMS Landrail. Transferred to RAF in 1963. Since 1996, part of the site has been leased to Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd. and is known as Campbeltown Airport. The remainder of the site was retained by the MOD until 2012 when it was sold to the Machrihanish Airbase Community Company under community right-to-buy legislation.
RAF MacmerryScotlandEast Lothian19411946Also (unofficially) known as RAF Tranent and RAF Penston, and briefly transferred to Royal Navy as HMS Nighthawk II during 1945. Operated as civil airfield 1929–53.
RAF MadleyEnglandHerefordshire19411946Now a BT Group earth station - Madley Communications Centre
RAF MaghaberryNorthern IrelandCounty Antrim19411946Now HM Prison Maghaberry
RAF ManbyEnglandLincolnshire19381974
RAF ManorbierWalesPembrokeshire19331946
RAF ManstonEnglandKent19171999Became Kent International Airport (closed 2014) and Defence Fire Training and Development Centre (closed 2020). Now MOD Manston, base for PWRR 3rd Battalion A Company.
RAF Manywells HeightEnglandYorkshire19161919No trace remains, returned to farmland
RAF MardenEnglandKent19171919Class 2 Airfield, near Staplehurst, housed a RAF wireless transmitter station during WW2
RAF Market DeepingEnglandLincolnshire
RAF Market DraytonEnglandShropshire(Buntingsdale Hall)
RAF Market HarboroughMBEnglandLeicestershire19431947
RAF Market StaintonEnglandLincolnshire
RAF Marston MoorMAEnglandYorkshire19411945originally named RAF Tockwith and sometimes incorrectly RAF Marsden Moor
RAF Martlesham HeathMHEnglandSuffolk19171963Pre 1939 was home to Royal Aircraft Establishment, in 1939 RAE moved to Farnborough and airfield became a Fighter Station as part of 11 Group. In 1943 RAF Moved out and USAAF moved in. Post war the airfield had numerous roles until 1959 when it became home to Headquarters 11 Group Fighter Command, and that same year the Original Battle of Britain Flight as it was then known moved from North Weald where it had been formed to Martlesham Heath. In 1961 however it was decided that the close proximity of Martlesham's circuit to the fast Jets of the bases of nearby Woodbridge and Bentwaters was becoming a problem and Martlesham was declared surplus to requirements and the Royal Air Force moved out. Now mostly redeveloped into housing, retail park and light industrial development but an aviation museum is located in the former control tower.[13]
RAF Marwell HallEnglandHampshire19411945Now the site of Marwell Zoo
RAF MatchingMTEnglandEssex19431945
RAF MatlaskeEnglandNorfolk
RAF MattishallEnglandNorfolkFirst World War landing ground
RAF MaydownNorthern IrelandCounty Londonderry19421945Transferred to Royal Navy as HMS Gannet II.
RAF MedmenhamEnglandBuckinghamshire19411977
RAF Meikle FerryScotlandRoss and Cromarty19421946Marine Craft Unit
RAF MeirEnglandStaffordshire
RAF MelbourneMEEnglandYorkshire19401945
RAF MelkshamEnglandWiltshire19401965Training schools
RAF Melton MowbrayEnglandLeicestershire19431964Now military dog training site
RAF MemburyMEEnglandBerkshire19421947(USAAF)
RAF MendleshamMDEnglandSuffolk19441954(USAAF)
RAF MepalMPEnglandCambridgeshire19431963now Mepal Airfield
RAF MerstonEnglandSussex19411944USAAF 1942–43 (Satellite of RAF Tangmere). Used by French RAF pilots during D-Day[14]
RAF MerryfieldHI, MFEnglandSomerset19441946USAAF 1944–45, now RNAS Merryfield HMS Heron II from 1971. Formerly known as RAF Isle Abbots.
RAF MetfieldEnglandSuffolk19431945(USAAF)
RAF MetheringhamMNEnglandLincolnshire19431946
RAF MethvenScotlandPerthshire1941c.1945No. 24 Satellite Landing Ground.
RAF MethwoldMLEnglandNorfolk19391958
RAF Middle WallopEnglandHampshire19401958now used by the British Army, AAC Middle Wallop
RAF Middleton St. GeorgeMGEnglandCounty Durham19411965Formerly RAF Goosepool, now Teesside International Airport
RAF MilfieldEnglandNorthumberland19421946Previously used as landing ground known as Woodbridge during 1917.
RAF Mill GreenEnglandHertfordshire19431948RAF Airfield Construction Branch plant store and training base
RAF MillomEnglandCumbria19411945Now HM Prison Haverigg
RAF MilltownScotlandMorayshire19432001Closed for flying in 1977, retained by the RAF as a high frequency signals transmitter station until transfer to the Defence Communication Services Agency in 2001. HF station later closed and site was sold in 2013.
RAF MinchinhamptonEnglandGloucestershire19181919
RAF MissonEnglandNottinghamshireCold War Bloodhound missile site as defence for (then) RAF Finningley to the west
RAF Montford BridgeEnglandShropshire19411945Satellite station of RAF Rednal
RAF MontroseScotlandAngus19121952First military airfield in Scotland.
RAF MorecambeEnglandLancashireThe Midland Hotel requisitioned as an RAF Hospital
RAF Moreton-in-MarshMOEnglandGloucestershire19411955Now the site of the Fire Service College
RAF Moreton ValenceEnglandGloucestershire19391962The runway is now buried under the M5 motorway. The station was adjacent to 7MU Quedgeley.
RAF MorpethEnglandNorthumberland19421948Also known locally as Tranwell.
RAF Mount BattenEnglandDevon19181986formerly RAF Cattewater
RAF Mount FarmMFEnglandOxfordshire19401946(USAAF)
RAF Mousehold HeathEnglandNorfolk1914 under RFC, became first Norwich Airport in 1933. Now a recreational area.
RAF MullaghmoreNorthern IrelandCounty Londonderry19421945
RAF MurloughNorthern IrelandCounty Down19411945No. 19 Satellite Landing Ground.
RAF NarboroughEnglandNorfolk19151919Sited to the NE of present-day RAF Marham
RAF Needs Oar PointEnglandHampshire19431944ALG
RAF Nether WallopEnglandHampshire19451946HQ Southern Sector
RAF NetheravonEnglandWiltshire19191957Netheravon Camp (Army Air Corps) 1963–2012
RAF NewchurchEnglandKent19431944ALG
RAF NewhavenEnglandSussex19171919Newhaven Seaplane Base
RAF NewmarketNMEnglandSuffolk19391945
RAF New RomneyEnglandKent19171919(WWI) Became Littlestone Airfield post-war, used as an Emergency Landing Ground
RAF New RomneyEnglandKent19421944(WWII) Also known as RAF Honeychild
RAF NewtonNAEnglandNottinghamshire19372000Reduced to an enclave in 1995, site later closed and sold for residential-led mixed use development. Former aircraft hangars retrained for commercial use.
RAF NewtownardsNorthern IrelandCounty Down19391945Opened as Ards Airport in 1934, now Newtownards Airport.
RAF Hospital Nocton HallEnglandLincolnshire19471995Sold and converted to residential care home, later became derelict.
RAF North CoatesEnglandLincolnshire19351990
RAF North CreakeNOEnglandNorfolk19431945
RAF North KillingholmeNKEnglandLincolnshire19431945
RAF North LuffenhamNLEnglandRutland19401997Transferred to the British Army and became St George's Barracks.
RAF North PickenhamNPEnglandNorfolk19441965Now a turkey farm and karting circuit
RAF North WealdEnglandEssex19161964This is where the VE-Day celebration flypast took off from, with Group Captain Douglas Bader taking the role of 'Lead Fighter'. Now North Weald Airfield.
RAF North WithamNWEnglandLincolnshire
RAF Hospital NorthallertonEnglandYorkshire19431947Served as the RAF hospital for No. 6 Group (RCAF)
RAF NorthleachEnglandGloucestershire19421944
RAF NortonEnglandYorkshire19391965
RAF Norton DisneyEnglandLincolnshireOriginally named RAF Swinderby (but on different site to later flying station), large-capacity bomb storage area
RAF NuneatonNUEnglandLeicestershirealso known as RAF Lindley
RAF Nuneham ParkEnglandOxfordshire
RAF NuthampsteadNTEnglandHertfordshire19431954(USAAF)
RAF Nutts CornerNorthern IrelandCounty Antrim19411946Subsequently, Belfast Airport until 1963.
RAF OakhamEnglandLeicestershire
RAF OakhangerEnglandHampshire19662003Satellite communications station now operated by Airbus Defence and Space under a private finance initiative contract for the Ministry of Defence.
RAF OakingtonOAEnglandCambridgeshire19401970Being developed into Northstowe new town.
RAF OakleyOYEnglandBuckinghamshire19421945
RAF Oatlands HillEnglandWiltshire19411945RLG and overspill site for Old Sarum
RAF ObanScotlandArgyllshire19391945Flying boat station at Ganavan Bay. Not to be confused with the present Oban Airport (ex RAF Connel).
RAF OkehamptonEnglandDevonAlso known as Folly Gate
RAF Old BuckenhamOEEnglandNorfolk19431945(USAAF)
RAF Old SarumEnglandWiltshire19171971now Old Sarum Airfield
RAF OssingtonONEnglandNottinghamshire19421946
RAF OultonOUEnglandNorfolk19401947
RAF OustonEnglandNorthumberland19411974Now Albemarle Barracks (British Army) near Heddon on the Wall.
RAF PadgateEnglandLancashire
RAF PembreyWalesCarmarthenshire19401957Now Pembrey Race Track
RAF Pembroke DockWalesPembrokeshire19301957
RAF Pengam MoorsWalesSouth Glamorgan19371953(aka RAF Cardiff)
RAF PenshurstEnglandKent19161919

1946

Became Penshurst Airfield, in operation 1919–36, reopened during WWII
RAF PenrhosWalesCaernarvonshire19371947Established as the Polish Resettlement Centre post-WW2
RAF PeplowCEEnglandShropshire19401947Also known for a short period as RAF Childs Ercall. Later renamed HMS Godwit as a Fleet Air Arm instrument landing school
RAF PerranporthEnglandCornwall19411945
RAF PershorePREnglandWorcestershire19411978also known as RAF Throckmorton, became Royal Radar Establishment RRE Pershore
RAF PerthScotlandPerthshire19361954Now Perth (Scone) Airport
RAF PertonEnglandStaffordshire19411945
RAF PeterheadScotlandAberdeenshire19411945
RAF PeterboroughEnglandNorthamptonshire19321964
RAF PevenseyEnglandSussex
RAF Pitreavie CastleScotlandFife19381996Main building converted to residential use, others demolished.
RAF PocklingtonOCEnglandYorkshire19411946
RAF PodingtonEnglandBedfordshire19421946Now Santa Pod Raceway drag strip
RAF PolebrookPKEnglandNorthamptonshire19411963(USAAF)
RAF PolegateEnglandSussex19151919Airship base
RAF Port EllenScotlandArgyllshire19401947Also known as RAF Glenegedale and RAF Islay, now Islay Airport
RAF PortreathEnglandCornwallAfter the War part of the airfield became Chemical Defence Establishment Nancekuke (CDE Nancekuke, a Chemical weapons manufacturing facility for VX gas and Sarin gas, (closed in the 1950s). Now RRH Portreath, a remote Radar Head
RAF PortsmouthEnglandHampshire19391949
RAF PoultonEnglandCheshire19431945Used as a satellite of RAF Hawarden.
RAF Prawle PointEnglandDevon19171919Formerly RNAS Prawle Point
RAF PrestatynWalesDenbighshire
RAF PrestwickScotlandAyrshire19362013Operations transferred to RAF (U) Swanwick.
RAF PucklechurchEnglandGloucestershire19391959Now HM Prison Ashfield
RAF PulboroughEnglandSussex19401945Emergency Landing Ground
RAF PulhamEnglandNorfolk19181958used for the development of British airships between the wars
RAF QuedgeleyEnglandGloucestershire19391995Site sold and redeveloped as Kingsway Village.
RAF RackheathRKEnglandNorfolk19431945(USAAF) Now Rackheath Industrial Estate.
RAF RadlettEnglandHertfordshire19401945Aldenham Lodge Hotel requisitioned as the headquarters of No. 80 (Signals) Wing, not the Handley Page Airfield
RAF RamsburyRYEnglandWiltshire19421945(USAAF)
RAF RamsgateEnglandKent19401940Also Ramsgate Airport, temporary requisition during the Battle of Britain as dispersals for RAF Manston, re-opened as civil airfield in 1953 and closed in 1968
RAF RatcliffeEnglandLeicestershireATA use of Ratcliffe Aerodrome
RAF RattlesdenRSEnglandSuffolk19421945(USAAF)
RAF RaucebyEnglandLincolnshireNo 4 RAF Hospital between 1940 and 1947 – became Rauceby Mental Hospital
RAF RaydonRAEnglandSuffolk19421958(USAAF)
RAF ReadingEnglandBerkshire
RAF RearsbyEnglandLeicestershireA former flying club airfield was the base for Taylorcraft Aeroplanes (England) Ltd changed its name to The Auster Aircraft Company Ltd. Subsequently used as a component manufacturer for the automotive industry.
RAF RedhillEnglandSurrey19371954now Redhill Aerodrome
RAF RednalEnglandShropshire1942–19451945now Rednal Airfield
RAF Regents ParkEnglandCity of WestminsterNo. 1 Aircrew Reception Centre
RAF RenfrewScotlandRenfrewshire1925Opened 1915 as manufacturer's airfield, subsequently a civil airfield (Renfrew Airport) until closure in 1966. RAuxAF 602 Squadron formed 1925. RAF use ceased after WW2.
RAF RhooseWalesSouth Glamorgan19421952Now Cardiff Airport
RAF RiccallRCEnglandYorkshire19421946
RAF RidgewellRDEnglandEssex19421957(USAAF)
RAF RingwayEnglandCheshireFormerly and now Manchester Airport
RAF RiponEnglandNorth Yorkshire19161919After 1919, reverted to Ripon Racecourse, but was used sporadically throughout the 1920s for civilian flights
RAF RivenhallRLEnglandEssex19431945
RAF RoboroughEnglandDevon19381945Formerly Plymouth Municipal Aerodrome, now Plymouth City Airport, closed 2020
RAF RochesterEnglandKent193819531938 location of No 23 Elementary and Reserve Flying Training School.[15]
RAF Rochford
RAF Southend
EnglandEssexMay 19151945Now London Southend Airport
RAF RonaldswayIsle of Man1943(HMS Urley, RNAS Ronaldsway), now main Isle of Man airport
RAF Rudloe ManorEnglandSomerset19402000Formerly RAF Box, also known as RAF Corsham, now MoD Corsham
RAF RufforthRUEnglandYorkshire19421954
RAF RustingtonEnglandSussex19171919
RAF SaltbySYEnglandLeicestershire
RAF SamlesburyEnglandLancashirenow Samlesbury Aerodrome
RAF SandtoftEnglandLincolnshire19431955
RAF Sandy BayNorthern IrelandCounty Antrimflying boat base on Lough Neagh near Ram's Island
RAF SawbridgeworthZH (day use only)EnglandHertfordshire19161946Originally established in WW1 as a Night Landing Ground for 39 (Home Defence) Sqn of the RFC it was operational from April 1916 to November 1918. The location was reused in an enlarged state as an airfield in October 1940 and operational until mid-1946, whence it returned to agriculture.
RAF ScamptonEnglandLincolnshire19162023Station closed with no alternative military use proposed. Site expected to be disposed of by the Ministry of Defence.
RAF ScarnishScotlandArgyllshireGround Control Intercept radar station
RAF ScatstaScotlandShetland19401946Now Scatsta Airport
RAF ScortonEnglandYorkshire19391945
RAF SculthorpeSPEnglandNorfolk19431992Airfield retained in military use by the MOD and known as the Sculthorpe Training Area. Technical and administrative buildings sold for civilian use and now form Tattersett Business Park. Former military housing refurbished to create Wicken Green Village.
RAF SealandWalesFlintshire19162006Transferred to the Defence Aviation Repair Agency (DARA), now Defence Electronics and Components Agency (DECA). Part of site sold for redevelopment.
RAF SedgefordEnglandNorfolkWW1 night landing ground, site used as airfield decoy during WW2
RAF SeethingEnglandNorfolk19431945
RAF SeighfordYDEnglandStaffordshire
RAF SelseyEnglandSussex19431945ALG, previously Selsey Airfield
RAF SharnbrookEnglandBedfordshireMunitions Storage Depot
RAF Sheerness (Aerodrome)EnglandKent19181918Emergency Landing Ground
RAF SheernessEnglandKent19191919Balloon station
RAF ShellbeachEnglandKent19181981WWI Emergency Landing Ground
RAF ShellingfordEnglandOxfordshire
RAF Shepherds GroveEnglandSuffolk
RAF Sherburn-in-ElmetEnglandYorkshire19171945Now Sherburn-in-Elmet Airfield
RAF ShipdhamSJEnglandNorfolk19421945(USAAF)
RAF ShobdonEnglandHerefordshire19401946Now Shobdon Aerodrome
RAF Shoreham (WWI)EnglandSussex19141921
RAF Shoreham (WWII)EnglandSussex19401946Wartime requisition of Shoreham Airport
RAF ShrewtonEnglandWiltshire19401946Relief landing ground[16]
RAF SidmouthEnglandDevon19431945Various hotels requisitioned as The Air Crew Officers School, a convalescent home and a Medical Training Establishment and Depot
RAF SillothEnglandCumbria19391960
RAF SilverstoneSVEnglandNorthamptonshire19431947Straddles Buckinghamshire border. Now Silverstone International Motor Racing Circuit.
RAF SkaebraeScotlandOrkney19401957
RAF SkellingthorpeFGEnglandLincolnshire1941–19521952
RAF Skipton-on-SwaleSKEnglandYorkshire19421945
RAF SkittenScotlandCaithness19401945
RAF SleapEnglandShropshire19431964now Sleap Airfield
RAF SnailwellEnglandCambridgeshire19411946
RAF SnaithSXEnglandYorkshire19411946
RAF Snetterton HeathSNEnglandNorfolk19431948airfield now Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit and Snetterton outdoor market
RAF SnettishamEnglandNorfolkUSAAF Gunnery School/Range
RAF SnitterfieldEnglandWarwickshire19431946
RAF SobertonEnglandHampshire1940Emergency Landing Ground
RAF SomertonEnglandIsle of Wight19161919Became civil airfield for Saunders-Roe post-war, closed 1951
RAF South CerneyEnglandGloucestershire19371971Transferred to British Army and became Duke of Gloucester Barracks.
RAF South WithamEnglandLincolnshire
RAF SouthamEnglandWarwickshire19401944
RAF SouthropEnglandGloucestershire19401947
RAF SpanhoeUVEnglandNorthamptonshire19441946Also known as Wakerley or Harringworth
RAF SpekeEnglandLancashireNow hotel complex with aircraft museum, airfield rebuilt on site to south-east and now called Liverpool John Lennon Airport
RAF SpilsbySLEnglandLincolnshire
RAF SpitalgateEnglandLincolnshire19161975(sometimes incorrectly spelled RAF Spittlegate) (formerly RAF Grantham), now Prince William of Gloucester Barracks
RAF Squires GateEnglandLancashireNow Blackpool Airport
RAF St AngeloNorthern IrelandCounty Fermanagh19411947Originally no. 18 Satellite Landing Ground, but subsequently a full aerodrome. Now Enniskillen/St Angelo Airport.
RAF St AthanWalesVale of Glamorgan19382006Renamed MOD St Athan, home to the RAF's No. 4 School of Technical Training, units flying the Grob Tutor and the Special Forces Support Group.
RAF St DavidsWalesPembrokeshire19431958
RAF St EvalEnglandCornwall19391959
RAF StaffordEnglandStaffordshire19382006Was No. 16 Maintenance Unit (16 MU). Transferred to British Army and became MOD Stafford (Beacon Barracks).
RAF StanbridgeEnglandBedfordshire19392013Also known as RAF Leighton Buzzard. Site sold for redevelopment, station buildings demolished.
RAF Stanley ParkEnglandLancashireNow Blackpool Zoo
RAF Stanmore ParkEnglandMiddlesexTotally demolished and redeveloped into a civilian housing estate
RAF StanningtonEnglandNorthumberland
RAF Stansted MountfitchetKTEnglandEssex19431958Now London Stansted Airport
RAF Stanton HarcourtSTEnglandOxfordshire
RAF Stapleford TawneyEnglandEssex19391945now Stapleford Aerodrome
RAF StaplehurstSHEnglandKent19431944Prototype ALG/USAAF
RAF StavertonEnglandGloucestershire19361951
RAF Steeple MordenKREnglandCambridgeshire19401946
RAF Stoke HammondEnglandBuckinghamshire1974
RAF Stoke OrchardEnglandGloucestershire19411945
RAF Stoney CrossEnglandHampshire19421948
RAF Stormy DownWalesGlamorganshire19401945
RAF StornowayScotlandRoss and Cromarty19411998Opened as civil airport in 1934. Returned to civilian use and became Stornoway Airport.
Stow Maries AerodromeEnglandEssex19171940Originally opened as an RFC station in 1914 (all titles changed to 'RAF' after 1 April 1918), not used in WW2, now a Heritage Centre and private airfield
RAF StracathroScotlandAngus19411948
RAF StradishallNXEnglandSuffolk19381970now HMP Highpoint prison.
RAF StratfordNFEnglandWarwickshire19421945Formerly RAF Atherstone
RAF StravithieScotlandFife19411945No. 26 Satellite Landing Ground
RAF StrubbyNYEnglandLincolnshire19431972
RAF SturgateEnglandLincolnshire19441964now Sturgate Airfield
RAF SudburySUEnglandSuffolk19441945
RAF Sullom VoeScotlandShetland19391952Flying boat station. Now subsumed by the Sullom Voe oil terminal.
RAF SumburghScotlandShetland19401946Opened as civil airport in 1936, now Sumburgh Airport
RAF Sutton BridgeEnglandLincolnshire19261958Formerly an Armament Practice Camp established 1 September 1926, from 1932 renamed RAF Sutton Bridge, closed 1958, airfield landsite transferred to the Ministry of Agriculture and continues to be used by the Potato Council as an agricultural experiment station.
RAF Sutton on HullEnglandYorkshire19381961
RAF SwanningtonNGEnglandNorfolk19441947
RAF Swanton MorleySMEnglandNorfolk19401995Transferred to the British Army and became Robertson Barracks.
RAF SwinderbySNEnglandLincolnshire19401993Sold in 1995, the technical site is now an industrial estate and domestic site became the village of Witham St Hughs. The airfield remains and is disused.
RAF SwingfieldEnglandKent1916-19191940-1946WW1 ELG, reopened as WWII ALG
RAF SydenhamNorthern IrelandCounty Down19391978Opened as civil airfield in 1933. Also known at various times as RAF Belfast, HMS Gadwall, HMS Gannet III, Belfast Harbour Airport, Belfast City Airport, now George Best Belfast City Airport
RAF SywellEnglandNorthamptonshireNow Sywell Aerodrome
RAF TadcasterEnglandNorth Yorkshirelate 1915April 1920
RAF TainScotlandRoss and Cromarty19411946Disused airfield within boundaries of the current bombing range.
RAF TalbennyWalesPembrokeshire19421946
RAF TangmereEnglandSussex19171979Now Tangmere Aviation Museum
RAF Tarrant RushtonEnglandDorsetshire19431947Site returned to agricultural use
RAF TatenhillVLEnglandStaffordshire19411947(initially called RAF Crossplains) – see also Tatenhill Airfield
RAF TealingScotlandAngus19421945
RAF TeddingtonEnglandGreater London19421963See Camp Griffiss
RAF Telscombe CliffsEnglandSussex19161919
RAF TempletonWalesPembrokeshire19421945
RAF TempsfordEnglandBedfordshire19411947
RAF TernhillEnglandShropshire19161976Technical and administrative site transferred to the British Army and became Borneo Barracks, later renamed Clive Barracks. Airfield retained by the RAF for use as a relief landing ground, now used by the Defence Helicopter Flying School.
RAF ThatchamEnglandBerkshire2001Now automotive industry research, test and development facility
RAF ThameEnglandBuckinghamshireNow Haddenham Airfield
RAF ThealeEnglandBerkshireNow gravel pits
RAF TheddlethorpeEnglandLincolnshire(former bombing range)
RAF ThetfordEnglandNorfolk
RAF TholthorpeTHEnglandYorkshire19401948
RAF ThornabyTBEnglandYorkshire19291958now extended Thornaby town housing
RAF Thorney IslandEnglandSussex19381976Transferred to the British Army in 1984 and became Baker Barracks.
RAF Thorpe AbbottsTAEnglandNorfolk19431956(USAAF)
RAF ThrowleyEnglandKent19161919Allocated as a WWII Emergency Landing Ground, but not used.
RAF ThruxtonTXEnglandHampshire19421946now Thruxton Motor Racing Circuit
RAF ThurleighEnglandBedfordshire19361946Converted to RAE Bedford and is now Bedford Autodrome
RAF TibenhamEnglandNorfolk19421959(USAAF)
RAF TilsheadEnglandWiltshire19251941
RAF TilstockOKEnglandShropshire19421946
RAF TipnorEnglandHampshire19171919Balloon station
RAF TireeScotlandInverness-shire19411946Now Tiree Airport, used as civil airport since 1937.
RAF ToomeNorthern IrelandCounty Antrim19431954
RAF Hospital TorquayEnglandDevon19391942RAf Officers' Convalescent Hospital
RAF TowynWalesMerionethshire19401945
RAF TrebelzueEnglandCornwallpre-WW2 gliding/flying site as 'Big Field'2 runways laid end-41, declared unsuitable and used as dispersals by RAF St Mawgan during WWII, later a weapons store for the US Navy and still extant
RAF TreliggaEnglandCornwall19391955Was RN bombing range, now agriculture
RAF Truleigh HillEnglandSussex
RAF TuddenhamTDEnglandSuffolk19431963
RAF TurnberryScotlandAyrshire19171945Used 1917-18 and as a landing ground in the 1930s. Full aerodrome reopened in 1942, now golf and hotel complex.
RAF TurnhouseScotlandMidlothian19161997Now Edinburgh Airport
RAF TurwestonTUEnglandBuckinghamshire19421945Now Turweston Aerodrome
RAF Twinwood FarmEnglandBedfordshire19411945(USAAF from 1944)
RAF Tydd St MaryEnglandLincolnshire(former RFC Aerodrome Tydd St Mary – transferred to RAF in 1918)
RAF UpavonUAEnglandWiltshire19121993Transferred to the British Army and became Upavon Station, Trenchard Lines.
RAF UpotteryEnglandDevon19441948Although the runways remain the land and remaining buildings are in private ownership.
RAF Upper HeyfordUHEnglandOxfordshire19181994Site sold, several buildings now in various civilian uses and other areas redeveloped for housing. Several areas and buildings given scheduled or listed status.
RAF UpwoodUDEnglandCambridgeshire19172012Sold for various civilian uses.
RAF UsworthEnglandCounty Durham19161958Sunderland Airport from 1963, redeveloped as Nissan car plant from 1984
RAF UxbridgeEnglandLondon19182010Closed as a result of the MOD's Project MoDEL, site sold for redevelopment and majority of station buildings demolished. Operations room now Battle of Britain Bunker museum.
RAF WainfleetEnglandLincolnshireBombing range.
RAF WalmerEnglandKent19181919
RAF Walney IslandEnglandLancashireBarrow/Walney Island Airport
RAF WanboroughEnglandWiltshire19411945Relief Landing Ground
RAF WarboysWBEnglandCambridgeshire19411963
RAF WarmwellXWEnglandDorsetshire19371945Airfield site now quarried, technical site now Crossways village
RAF WartonEnglandLancashireOriginally Warton Aerodrome but, following the extension of two runways in 1940, the site became a satellite station of the RAF Coastal Command located at RAF Squires Gate. During WW2 the airfield was used by the USAAF as BAD2. Following the war the airfield was designated as RAF Warton. In 1947 the main airfield site was purchased and developed by the English Electric Company. Two outlying parts of the Warton site became RAF Lytham and RAF Freckleton. The main site has evolved over many years and is currently known as BAE Systems Warton.
RAF WarwickEnglandWarwickshire19411945Relief Landing Ground
RAF WatchetEnglandSomerset19371940RAF offshore firing range, Queen Bee launch site
RAF WatchfieldEnglandOxfordshire19401950
RAF WaterbeachWJEnglandCambridgeshire19411963From 1966 to 2013 called Waterbeach BarracksBritish Army, Royal Engineers. Closed in March 2013.
RAF Wath HeadEnglandCumberland19411945
RAF WatnallEnglandNottinghamshire
RAF WattishamWTEnglandSuffolk19391993Transferred to the British Army's Army Air Corps and became Wattisham Flying Station.
RAF WattonWNEnglandNorfolk19391976All but the airfield demolished to create new housing estate. Site used by the Army, whose Stanford Training Area is nearby. The southern taxiway has been removed, and much of the remaining site is in agricultural use.
RAF WeetonEnglandLancashire19401970Now Weeton Barracks
RAF Hospital WeetonEnglandLancashire
RAF WarringtonEnglandLancashire
RAF Wellesbourne MountfordWMEnglandWarwickshire19411963Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield since 1965.
RAF WellingoreEnglandLincolnshire19371946
RAF WendlingEnglandNorfolk19431945USAAF from 1944
RAF West AytonEnglandYorkshire19181919
RAF West DraytonEnglandMiddlesex19241944
RAF West FreughScotlandWigtownshire19372001Became RAE West Freugh when taken over by the Royal Aircraft Establishment in 1956, now MoD West Freugh with bombing and weapon test Ranges, also training area for maritime/landing operations.
RAF West KirbyEnglandMerseyside19401957training camp on the Wirral Peninsula
RAF West MallingVGEnglandKent19171969Became Maidstone Airport in 1930
RAF West RaynhamWREnglandNorfolk19391994
RAF WestcottWXEnglandBuckinghamshire19421945Became the Rocket Propulsion Establishment (RPE Westcott)
RAF WestenhangerEnglandKent1944Folkestone Racecourse
RAF WestgateEnglandKent19181920
RAF WesthampnettWQEnglandSussex19401946Satellite of RAF Tangmere, Emergency Landing Ground, now Chichester/Goodwood Airport
RAF Weston-on-the-GreenEnglandOxfordshire
RAF Weston-super-MareEnglandSomerset19391955Opened as civilian airport, now mostly housing, also a heliport and (since 1978) The Helicopter Museum
RAF Weston ZoylandEnglandSomerset19261969
RAF West RuislipEnglandMiddlesex19171955Later USAF/USN, closed 2006
RAF WethersfieldEnglandEssex19411970USAAF from 1944. Now MDP Wethersfield – MoD Police training base
RAF WeybourneEnglandNorfolk19391942Now the location of the Muckelboro Collection
RAF Wheaton AstonWHEnglandStaffordshire19411947Post war was used as a camp for Polish immigrants. Now used for pig farming.
RAF WhitchurchEnglandSomersetSee Bristol (Whitchurch) Airport
RAF White WalthamEnglandBerkshire19381982Now White Waltham Airfield
RAF WhitefieldScotlandPerthshire19391945Relief Landing Ground for RAF Perth.
RAF Whitley BayEnglandNorthumberland
RAF WickScotlandCaithness19391946Now Wick John O'Groats Airport
RAF WickenbyUIEnglandLincolnshire19421956
RAF Wig BayScotlandWigtownshire19401957Flying boat base (Sunderlands) on West side of Loch Ryan, also known as RAF Stranraer.
RAF WigsleyUGEnglandLincolnshire19421958Site straddled the border between Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire. Satellite of RAF Swinderby.
RAF WigtownScotlandWigtownshire19411948
RAF WillingaleJCEnglandEssex19461959See also RAF Chipping Ongar
RAF WilmslowEnglandCheshire19381962The station was demolished shortly after closing in 1962. During the 1980s the eastern part of the camp was developed with housing by local construction company Jones Homes, forming the 'Summerfields' development. During the early 1990s the A34 bypass of Wilmslow was constructed, which cut the site in two. Between 1996 and 2015 the remaining western part of the site was developed for housing, forming 'The Villas' and 'Regents Park' developments.
RAF WincombeEnglandWiltshire19431977Originally the site of a RAF Home Defence Unit (HDU), prior to becoming an intercept station. The site is now farmland, housing developments, and a commercial creamery where some original buildings are still in use.
RAF WinfieldScotlandBerwickshire19421945
RAF WindrushUREnglandGloucestershire
RAF WingUXEnglandBuckinghamshire19421958
RAF WinktonXTEnglandHampshire19431944ALG
RAF WinkleighEnglandDevon19431958
RAF WinterseughScotlandDumfriesshire19411944No. 37 Satellite Landing Ground.
RAF WinthorpeWEEnglandNottinghamshire19401958Now Newark Air Museum and Newark Showground
RAF WitchfordELEnglandCambridgeshire19431946
RAF WombletonUNEnglandYorkshire19431949
RAF WoodbridgeOZEnglandSuffolk19431993Transferred to the British Army in 2006 and became MOD Woodbridge, incorporating Rock Barracks and Woodbridge Airfield.
RAF WoodchurchXOEnglandKent1943ALG
RAF WoodcoteEnglandOxfordshire19411959
RAF Woodhall SpaWSEnglandLincolnshire19421964
RAF WoodhavenScotlandFife19421945Flying boat annex to RAF Leuchars
RAF WoodleyEnglandBerkshire
RAF Woolfox LodgeWLEnglandRutland19401964
RAF WoolsingtonEnglandNorthumberland19401945Previously RAF Station Newcastle, now Newcastle International Airport
RAF WorcesterEnglandWorcestershire
RAF WorksopWPEnglandNottinghamshire19431960
RAF WormingfordEnglandEssex19431947USAAF from 1944
RAF Worthy DownEnglandHampshire19181938Transferred to Royal Navy in 1939 as HMS Kestrel/HMS Ariel II. Now Worthy Down Camp
RAF WortleyEnglandYorkshire
RAF Wratting CommonWWEnglandCambridgeshire19431946
RAF WrexhamWalesDenbighshire19411945Also known as RAF Borras
RAF WroughtonEnglandWiltshire19401972Became a Royal Navy Air Yard (RNAY) in 1972, now a depository of the Science Museum
RAF Hospital WroughtonEnglandWiltshire19411996Demolished in 2004, site sold for redevelopment.
RAF WyeEnglandKent19161919
RAF WymeswoldWDEnglandLeicestershire19421957
RAF WythallEnglandWorcestershire19391959
RAF YatesburyEnglandWiltshire19171969
RAF YeadonEnglandYorkshire19391947now Leeds Bradford Airport
RAF YorkEnglandYorkshire19391946Also known as RAF Clifton and RAF Rawcliffe
RAF ZealsEnglandWiltshire19421946

Chain Home, Chain Home Low, Chain Home Extra Low, ROTOR and tropo-scatter stations

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Notes: Some of the Chain Home Low sites were co-located with the larger Chain Home radars. Chain Home Extra Low equipment was co-located with "Chain Home" and "Chain Home Low" as well as at separate sites, but were of a less permanent nature, usually with mobile equipment.

ROTOR was the post war Radar interception system created from existing radar installations.[17]

NARS, the North Atlantic Radio System, was an extension of the US Distant Early Warning system tropo-scatter communications network.

ACE High provided long-range communications for NATO

StationCountryCountyOrdnance Survey National GridNotes
RAF Aird UigScotlandOuter Hebrides(NB 047390)('WIU') CEW R10 ROTOR Radar Station[18] on the Isle of Lewis.
RAF Anstruther[19][20]ScotlandFife(NO568808)('FAT') R3 ROTOR Radar Station near Anstruther, Fife.
RAF AshEnglandKent(TR320586)Near Woodnesborough
RAF BallymartinNorthern IrelandCounty DownChain Home Low (CHL)
RAF BamburghEnglandNorthumberlandCHL 41A/CEW/CHEL Site K157[21]
RAF Bard HillEnglandNorfolk(TG075428)Coast defence (CD)/Chain Home Low radar station near Holt
RAF Barnton QuarryScotlandLothian(NT203748('MHA') Rotor SOC and RSG near Edinburgh
RAF BawburghEnglandNorfolk(TG165080)('WRK') former RAF Eastern Sector Control HQ, ROTOR Station and SOC near Norwich
RAF BawdseyEnglandSuffolk(TM 347388)CH, CHEL, ('PKD') R3 GCI (E) ROTOR Radar Station[22]
RAF Beachy HeadEnglandSussex(TV 590959)Chain Home Low (CHL)/CD M10, then (('HEB') CEW R1 ROTOR Radar Station)[23]
RAF Beer HeadEnglandDevon(SY 223882)CHL 13A/CHEL K165[24]
RAF BemptonEnglandYorkshire(TA 192736)near Bridlington, formerly RAF Flamborough Head – later developed as ('RMF') ROTOR R1 CEW station
RAF Ben HoughScotlandTiree(NL94874635)Chain Home Low radar station on summit of Beinn Hough
RAF BinbrookEnglandLincolnshire(UBIZ) – NATO ACE High Tropo-scatter LOS microwave terminal
RAF BlackheadNorthern IrelandCounty AntrimChain Home Low
RAF Blackpool TowerEnglandLancashire(SD306357)Blackpool – AMES No. 64
RAF BlackgangEnglandIsle of Wight(SZ505766)GCI station near Niton
RAF Bolt TailEnglandDevonR6 ROTOR Radar Station adjacent to RAF Bolt Head
RAF Boniface DownEnglandIsle of Wight
RAF Botley Hill FarmEnglandSurreyNATO ACE High Tropo-scatter site
RAF BoulmerEnglandNorthumberland(NU 240125)('EZS') GCI R3 Type 80 ROTOR Radar Station & Control and Reporting Centre in the UK Air Surveillance and Control System
RAF Brandy BayEnglandDorsetshire(SY 8766479827)Radar and GEE site near Tyneham
RAF BranscombeEnglandDevon(SY1988)Chain Home Station CH13[25]
RAF Brenish[26]ScotlandWestern Isles(NA9910024250)Chain Home Radar Station. AMES No. 97[27]
RAF Bride[28]Isle of Man(SC463031)
RAF Brizlee WoodEnglandNorthumberland(UBOZ) – NATO ACE High Tropo-scatter site
RAF Broad BayScotlandWestern Isles(NB5314034470)Chain Home Radar Station
RAF BuchanScotlandAberdeenshire(NK 113408)(former ROTOR R3 GCI Radar Station 'GBU')
RAF CalvoEnglandCumbria(NY 144545)('CAL' ROTOR R8 GCI Radar Station)
RAF CanewdonEnglandEssex(TQ9094)Chain Home Radar Station CH22
RAF CarsaigScotlandIsle of MullCHL
RAF Cape GrecoCyprusNATO ACE High Tropo-scatter site
RAF Castell MawrWalesAnglesey(SN5369)Chain Home Station AMES No. 67
RAF CheniesEnglandBuckinghamshire(TQ 015997)('HAM' R8 GCI ROTOR Station)
RAF Clee HillEnglandShropshire[29]
RAF CleadonEnglandCounty DurhamChain Home Low and OBOE Station
RAF ClettScotlandShetland IslandsGCI Station
RAF CockburnspathScotlandBordersCHL
RAF CocklawScotlandAberdeenshireChain Home Low Radar Station AMES No. 47B, near Peterhead
RAF Cold HesledonEnglandCounty Durham(NZ 417468)ROTOR R1 CEW/CHEL Station
RAF Coldblow LaneEnglandKent(TQ824584)(UMAZ) – NATO Ace High Tropospheric scatter site, near Detling
RAF Collafirth HillScotlandShetlandLOS (line of sight) microwave site for NATO ACE High.
RAF CombertonEnglandWorcestershire(SO 968461)('COB' R8 GCI ROTOR Station)
RAF Crannoch HillScotlandBanffshireCD/CHL
RAF CrasterEnglandNorthumberlandCD/CHL
RAF CreignishIsle of ManCHL[28]
RAF CresswellEnglandNorthumberland(NZ2974892445)[30]
RAF CrickladeEnglandGloucestershire(SU10459505)GCI ("Happidrome") Radar Station[31]
RAF CromartyScotlandRoss and CromartyChain Home Low Radar Station – AMES No. 48A
RAF CrosslawScotlandBerwickshire(CHEL R2 ROTOR Radar Station)[32]
RAF CrustanScotlandOrkney IslandsCHL
RAF Dalby[28]Isle of Man(SC2178)
RAF Danby BeaconEnglandNorth Yorkshire(NZ732097)CH/ROTOR station near Lealholm
RAF DeernessScotlandOrkney IslandsCHL
RAF Donna NookEnglandLincolnshireChain Home Extra Low (CHEL) radar station, now offshore bombing range.
RAF Doonies HillScotlandAberdeen(NJ 9666 0383)Chain Home Low Station near Gregness
RAF Douglas WoodScotlandAngus(NO4862041515)Chain Home Radar Station near Monikie
RAF DoverEnglandKent(TR3368043094)Chain Home Station CH04[33]
RAF DownderryEnglandCornwallCH15 Radar Station
RAF DownhillNorthern IrelandCounty Londonderry
RAF Drone HillScotlandBorders(NT8447066535)Chain Home radar station near Coldingham
RAF Dry TreeEnglandCornwall(SW723218)CH Station Goonhilly Downs
RAF Dunderhole PointEnglandCornwallCoastal Defence/Chain Home Low station near Tintagel
RAF DunkirkEnglandKent(TR076595)Chain Home station[34] near Faversham
RAF Dunnet HeadScotlandCaithnessCoast Defence U-boat (CDU) Radar Station near Thurso
RAF DunwichEnglandSuffolkChain Home Low Station CHL28A[35]
RAF EasingtonEnglandYorkshireCHEL (Chain Home Extra Low) near Easington
RAF EorodaleScotlandIsle of Lewis(NB53196268)Chain Home Low Radar Station
RAF Fair IsleScotlandShetlandCDU station
RAF FairlightEnglandSussex(TQ 862113)Chain Home Low Station CHL03A,[36] later 'GWB' R2 CHEL(A) ROTOR Station
RAF Faraid HeadScotlandSutherland(NC 389714)('RAI' R10 CEW Rotor Radar Station)
RAF FollyWalesPembrokeshire(SM858195)CFP Combined filter plot near Nolton
RAF Foreness Point[37]EnglandKent(TR 385710)Chain Home Low Station CHL05A, later 'WJW' ROTOR R2 CHEL
RAF FormbyEnglandLancashire
RAF FullartonScotlandAyrshire(R8 GCI ('FUL') Rotor Radar Station). Later RAF Gailes
RAF GlenarmNorthern IrelandCounty Antrim
RAF GoldsboroughEnglandYorkshire(NZ 830138)near Whitby – 'JEX' R2 CHEL(A) ROTOR Radar Station
RAF Great BromleyEnglandEssex(TM104265)
RAF Great OrmeWalesConwynear Llandudno
RAF Greian HeadScotlandBarra
RAF GreystoneNorthern IrelandCounty DownAMES No. 61
RAF GrutnessScotlandShetland Islandsnear Sumburgh
RAF Hack GreenEnglandCheshire(SJ 647483)'HAK' R6 GCI ROTOR Station
RAF HappisburghEnglandNorfolk
RAF Hartland PointEnglandDevon(SS 237277)'HAT' R8 GCI ROTOR Station
RAF HawcoatEnglandLancashirenear Barrow in Furness
RAF Hawks TorEnglandDevonnear Plymouth
RAF Hayscastle CrossWalesPembrokeshire(SM920256)CH Type 80
RAF High StreetEnglandSuffolk(TM411720)Chain Home Station CH28[38] in Darsham, near Saxmundham IP17 3QD
RAF Highdown HillEnglandSussexChain Home Low station near Angmering
RAF HillheadScotlandAberdeenshire(NJ9430061700)CH Station near Memsie
RAF HolmptonEnglandYorkshire(TA365227)Radar – Support Command – UK Air CCIS – Now open to visitors
RAF Hope CoveEnglandDevon(SX 716374)'HOP' R6 Rotor GCI Control Bunker
RAF HoptonEnglandNorfolk(TM 540990)('TOH' CHEL(B) R2 ROTOR Radar Station)
RAF HumberstoneEnglandLincolnshire
RAF HytheEnglandKent
RAF IngoldmellsEnglandLincolnshire
RAF InverbervieScotlandAberdeenshire(NO 841734)'LGZ' CEW R1 ROTOR Radar Station
RAF IslivigScotlandIsle of Lewis
RAF JackaEnglandCornwallChain Home Low station near Portloe
RAF Kelvedon HatchEnglandEssex(TQ 561995)'XSL' R4 SOC Metropolitan Sector, later a regional Civil Defence HQ, then a Cold War Government Command Post. Now the Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker
RAF KendromScotlandIsle of SkyeChain Home Low station near Kilmaluag
RAF KeteWalesPembrokeshireAlso HMS Harrier (shore establishment) near Dale
RAF KilchiaranScotlandIslay(NR207616)('ECK') CHEL R11 ROTOR Radar Station[39]
RAF KilkeelNorthern IrelandCounty DownAMES No. 78
RAF Kilkenneth[40]ScotlandArgyll and Bute(NL9408045570)Chain Home radar station near Tiree
RAF Killard PointNorthern IrelandIslayGCI Station, subsite of RAF Bishops Court
RAF KingswearEnglandDevonChain Home Low
RAF Kinley HillEnglandCounty DurhamChain Home Low station near Seaham
RAF Langley LaneEnglandLancashirenear Goosnargh – ROC Group HQ No 21, UKWMO National War HQ & Rotor SOC. Langley Lane Sector Operation Centre & Filter Room
RAF LangtoftEnglandLincolnshire(('LAT'): R6 GCI ROTOR Radar Station)
RAF Loth[41][42]ScotlandSutherland(NC9590009600)Chain Home radar station near Helmsdale
RAF Mark's CastleEnglandCornwallCHL17A, near Land's End
RAF MineheadEnglandSomerset
RAF Mormond HillScotland(UMOZ) – LOS microwave TxRx site for NATO ACE High
RAF Mossy BottomEnglandSussexChain Home Low station near Shoreham
RAF Mossy HillScotlandShetlandNATO Ace High Tropo-scatter site
RAF NavidaleScotlandSutherland(ND 03750 15800)CHL and CHEL Radar Station near Helmsdale
RAF NeedlesEnglandIsle of WightCHL/CD
RAF Nefyn[43][44]WalesGwynedd(SH2704037575)AMES No. 66
RAF Netherbutton[45]ScotlandOrkney(HY4621104396)Chain Home radar station[46] near Holm
RAF NewchurchEnglandKent(TR0531)CHL/CD
RAF North CairnScotlandDumfries(NW97107074)Near Stranraer – AMES No. 60
RAF North ForelandEnglandKentChain Home Low
RAF NorthamEnglandDevon(SS4529)Chain Home Low radar station
RAF Noss HilScotlandShetland Islands(HU3613015575)Chain Home, AMES No. 54
RAF OrbyEnglandLincolnshireGCI station
RAF Ottercops MossEnglandNorthumberland(NY944896)near Otterburn, Northumberland
RAF Oxenhope MoorEnglandYorkshire(SE 0141437082)Radar and GEE site near Halifax
RAF OxwichWalesSouth Glamorgan(CD/CHL) radar station near Swansea
RAF PatringtonEnglandYorkshiresee RAF Holmpton
RAF Pen OliverEnglandCornwallChain Home Low station near The Lizard
RAF Pen y BrynWalesCaernarfonshireChain Home Low station
RAF PevenseyEnglandSussex(TQ644073)Chain Home radar station[47]
RAF Point of StoerScotlandSutherlandChain Home Low Radar Station
RAF PolingEnglandSussex(TQ043052)Chain Home Station CH08,[48] CHEL. First Radar Station to have WAAF operators.[49]
RAF Port Mor[50]ScotlandArgyll and Bute(NL9442)Advanced Chain Home radar station on Tiree
RAF PortlandEnglandDorsetshire(CEW R1 ROTOR Radar Station ('NIB'))
RAF PrestatynWalesDenbighshire(SJ079819)(('SYP') CHEL R11 ROTOR Radar Station)[51]
RAF Rame HeadEnglandCornwallChain Home Low station CHL15A[52]
RAF RavenscarEnglandNorth YorkshireChain Home Low Radar Station, later CEW
RAF RhuddlanWalesDenbighshire(SJ012764)AMES No. 65
RAF RingsteadEnglandDorsetshire(SY751817)NATO Ace High Tropospheric scatter site near Ringstead Bay
RAF Roddans PortNorthern IrelandCounty DownChain Home Low
RAF Rodel ParkScotlandWestern IslesChain Home Low station near Rodel, Harris
RAF RoseheartyScotlandAberdeenshireCHL and 10 cm Radar Station, also Bombing Range
RAF RyeEnglandKent(TQ968232)Chain Home radar station – misleadingly located in Brookland, Kent (place named-for, Rye, just across border in Sussex)
RAF Saligo BayScotlandArgyll and Bute(NR2116066740)Islay
RAF SandwichEnglandKent('YTM') R3 GCI ROTOR[53] near Ash
RAF Sango[54]ScotlandSutherland(NC4170067500)near Durness
RAF Saxa VordScotlandShetland Islandsnear Unst – (R10 CEW Rotor Radar Station)
RAF ScarinishScotlandTiree(NM032456)('FLY') GCI R8 ROTOR Radar Station[55]
RAF Scarlett[28]Isle of Man(SC2566)
RAF SchoolhillScotlandAberdeenshire(NO9086098180)Chain Home station[56] near Portlethen
RAF Seaton SnookEnglandCounty Durham(NZ 519280)('DYR') GCI R3 ROTOR Radar Station[57]
RAF SennenEnglandCornwall(SW376246)Chain Home Low and GEE Station
RAF SkawScotlandShetland Islands(HP6634016805)Chain Home and LORAN station near Unst
RAF SouthbourneEnglandDorsetshire(SZ1591)Chain Home station
RAF ShiptonEnglandYorkshire('KFY') R4 ROTOR Sector Operations Centre & SRHQ 21 / RGHQ 2.1)[58]
RAF ShottonEnglandCounty DurhamChain Home Low station
RAF SkendlebyEnglandLincolnshireChain Home Overseas Low (COL 161), later Chain Home Extra Low Station CHL34A, then 'UPI' ROTOR R3 GCI[59]
RAF SnaefellIsle of Man(SC397869)('MOI') CHEL R11 ROTOR Radar Station[60]
RAF SopleyEnglandHampshire(('AVO') 'R3' GCI ROTOR Station)
RAF South RonaldsayScotlandOrkneyCHL / CHEL Radar Station ) AMES No. 50A
RAF South StackWalesAnglesey
RAF St Anne'sEnglandLancashireROTOR site[61] near Blackpool
RAF St Bees HeadEnglandCumbriaChain Home Low No. 87A[62]
RAF St CyrusScotlandAberdeenshireCHL/CD Radar Station -AMES No. 45A
RAF St LawrenceEnglandIsle of Wight(SZ530760)Chain Home station[63]
RAF St Margaret's BayEnglandKentROTOR site
RAF St TwynnellsWalesPembrokeshire(SR94189741)('TWY') GCI R6 ROTOR Radar Station
RAF Staxton WoldEnglandYorkshire(TA023778)Chain Home station
RAF StenigotEnglandLincolnshire(TF256827)near Louth, Lincolnshire – (Chain Home (CH) and ACE High tropo-scatter), still in use for training aerial erectors.
RAF Stoke Holy CrossEnglandNorfolk(TG257028)Chain Home station
RAF Strumble HeadWalesPembrokeshire(SM 887 394)Chain Home Low radar station
RAF Swansea BayWalesGlamorganOperations/plotting Room
RAF Swingate DownEnglandKent(TR3382343186)CH Low station near Dover. Also called RAF St Margarets
RAF TannachScotlandCaithness(ND3200046900)Chain Home radar station near Wick
RAF The LawScotlandAngusChain Home Low station near Carnoustie
RAF TrelanveanEnglandCornwall(SW762193)Goonhilly Downs
RAF TreleaverEnglandCornwall(SW766174)(ROTOR: GCI Station)[64]
RAF TrerewEnglandCornwall(SW812585)Newquay – (Chain Home CH18 & ROTOR Radar Station)
RAF Trevose HeadEnglandCornwallChain Home Low
RAF Trewan SandsEnglandCornwall(SH322754)('TES') R8 GCI ROTOR Radar Station[65]
RAF TriminghamEnglandNorfolk(TG289382)Chain Home Extra Low (CHEL)/CD, then 'QLE' CEW R1 ROTOR Radar Station[66]
RAF Truleigh HillEnglandSussex(TQ 226 107)Chain Home Low Station CHL07B[67] later ROTOR R2 bunker near Bramber
RAF UlbsterScotlandCaithnessnear Wick
RAF UxbridgeEnglandGreater LondonNATO ACE High Tropo-scatter site
RAF Ventnor[68]EnglandIsle of Wight(SZ568785)Chain Home CH10, CHL M86, ROTOR Station 'OJC'[69]
RAF Walton on NazeEnglandEssexChain Home Low
RAF Warden PointEnglandKentChain Home Low station on the Isle of Sheppey
RAF WartlingEnglandSussex(TQ653074)(('ZUN') R3 GCI ROTOR Radar Station) near Bexhill-on-Sea
RAF WatsnessScotlandShetlandChain Home Low station near Walls. AMES No. 55A
RAF WarrenWalesPembrokeshire(SR92459757)Chain Home station
RAF West BeckhamEnglandNorfolkChain Home Radar station
RAF West PrawleEnglandDevon(SX771374)CH 14/CHL 14A[70]
RAF WestburnScotlandAberdeenshireCD/CHL. AMES No M23
RAF WestcliffEnglandDorsetshirenear Isle of Portland
RAF West MyneEnglandSomerset(SS928486)('ZEM') CHEL R11 ROTOR Radar Station[71]
RAF Whale HeadScotlandOrkney Islands(HY7590546125)Chain Home AMES No. 51 on Sanday
RAF WhitehawkEnglandSussexChain Home Low and 10 cm Radar Station near Brighton
RAF WhitstableEnglandKentChain Home Low
RAF WickScotlandHighland(R8 GCI Rotor Radar Station)
RAF Worth MatraversEnglandDorsetshire(SY967777)Chain Home and GEE site near Swanage
RAF WylfaWalesIsle of Anglesey(SH3522093385)AMES No. 76

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Europe

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StationCountryYear openedYear ClosedNotes
RAF Klagenfurt Austria[72] Now Klagenfurt Airport
RAF Schwechat Austria[73] now Vienna International Airport
RAF Ayios Nikolaos CyprusNow Ayios Nikolaos Station, joint service electronic intelligence gathering site
RAF Cape Greco Cyprus751 Signals Unit 1956–59. ACE High tropo-scatter site
RAF Nicosia Cyprus1930s1966[74] Still owned by the Ministry of Defence but used by the UN
Tymbou Airfield Cyprus1950s
RAF Eide Faroe IslandsRadar station
RAF Nolsoy Faroe IslandsRadar station
RAF Suduroy Faroe IslandsRadar station
RAF Sandoy Faroe IslandsRadar station
RAF Torshavn Faroe IslandsJoint RAF/RN radar Control Centre [75]
RAF Vaagar Faroe Islands? now Vágar Airport
France19141919During the Great War (1914–1918), and for a short period afterwards, there were at least 250 recognised airfields in France that
the Royal Flying Corps, Royal Naval Air Service, and Royal Air Force used at various times.
[76]
RAF Ajaccio France19431946Now Ajaccio Napoleon Bonaparte Airport, Corsica. Formerly Campo dell’Oro airbase used by Vichy, then Free French Air Forces.
RAF Saint Inglevert FranceFirst World War airfield at Saint-Inglevert, Pas-de-Calais. A later civil airfield on a different site was used during the early part of the Second World War.
RAF Ahlhorn Germany19451958Initially designated "B.111 Ahlhorn". Became Ahlhorner Heide Air Base. Now Südsiedlung Ahlhorn.
RAF Altona GermanyNo. 653 Squadron RAF[77]
RAF Anstedt GermanyNo. 662 Squadron RAF[78]
RAF Bad Eilsen Germany19451954Headquarters of the British Air Force of Occupation
RAF Bassen GermanyNo. 662 Squadron RAF[79]
RAF Bissendorf GermanyNo. 659 Squadron RAF[80]
RAF Bremerhaven GermanyNo. 662 Squadron RAF
RAF Bruggen Germany2015[80] Now a British Army Garrison, called "Elmpt Station, Javelin Barracks"
RAF Bückeburg Germany[80] now Bückeburg Air Base
RAF Butzweilerhof GermanyNo. 16 Squadron RAF, No. 94 Squadron RAF & No. 145 Squadron RAF.[81]
RAF Celle Germany19451957[82] now Celle Air Base
RAF Deilingenhofen GermanyNo. 652 Squadron RAF, No. 658 Squadron RAF & No. 662 Squadron RAF[83]
RAF Detmold GermanyNo. 652 Squadron RAF[84]
RAF Dorfmark GermanyNo. 658 Squadron RAF[84]
RAF Elm GermanyNo. 662 Squadron RAF[85]
RAF Fassberg Germany19451957[85] now Faßberg Air Base initially designated "B.152 Fassberg"
RAF Finkenwerder GermanyNo. 210 Squadron RAF & No. 230 Squadron RAF[85]
RAF Freren GermanyNo. 662 Squadron RAF[86]
RAF Fuhlsbüttel Germany? now Hamburg Airport
RAF Gatow Germany19451994[86]
RAF Geilenkirchen Germany19531968[86] Now NATO Air Base Geilenkirchen
RAF Goslar GermanyNo. 657 Squadron RAF & No. 662 Squadron RAF[87]
RAF Greven GermanyNo. 659 Squadron RAF[87]
RAF Gütersloh Germany[87] Originally Y.99, now a British Army Garrison, called "Princess Royal Barracks, Gutersloh"
RAF Habighorst GermanyNo. 659 Squadron RAF[87]
RAF Hambühren Germany19531957A Signals Wing and 2 Signal Units.
RAF Harburg GermanyNo. 653 Squadron RAF[87]
RAF Hehn GermanyACE High site (abb – Moenchengladbach Tail (1) – Hehn) AHEZ – Hehn
RAF Hille GermanyNo. 659 Squadron RAF[88]
RAF Hosseringen GermanyNo. 659 Squadron RAF[88]
RAF Hoya GermanyNo. 652 Squadron RAF, No. 653 Squadron RAF & No. 662 Squadron RAF[88]
RAF Hustedt Germany[88] subsite of RAF Celle
RAF Husum Germany[88] A remote radar station on the coast near Husum, Schleswig-Holstein – initially designated "B.172 Husum"
RAF Jever Germany19521961[88] Now Jever Air Base
RAF Kiel/Holtenau GermanyNo. 659 Squadron RAF & No. 660 Squadron RAF[72]
RAF Kirchdorf GermanyNo. 653 Squadron RAF[72]
RAF Laarbruch Germany[72] Initially designated "B.100 Goch". now in civilian use, under the name Weeze (or Niederrhein) Airport (NRN/EDLV)
RAF Lübeck also known as RAF Blankensee Germany19451949[89] Initially designated "B.158 Lübeck". Now Lübeck Airport
RAF Meppen GermanyNo. 660 Squadron RAF & No. 664 Squadron RAF[90]
RAF Negenborn GermanyNo. 659 Squadron RAF[74]
RAF Neheim GermanyNo. 662 Squadron RAF[74]
RAF Nordhorn GermanyBombing Range
RAF Oldenburg GermanyNo. 14 Squadron RAF, No. 20 Squadron RAF, No. 26 Squadron RAF & No. 234 Squadron RAF[74]
RAF Osnabruck GermanyNo. 658 Squadron RAF[74]
RAF Putlos Germany?
RAF Rheindahlen Germanynow occupied by the British Army, as HQ United Kingdom Support Command (Germany) (HQ UKSC(G))
RAF Hospital Rinteln GermanyUnder RAF command till opening of the new RAF Hospital Wegberg in 1953.[91]
RAF Hospital Rostop GermanyOriginally known as No. 1 Mobile Field Hospital deployed following closure of BMH Oldenburg.[91]
RAF Rostrup GermanyNo. 661 Squadron RAF & No. 664 Squadron RAF[92]
RAF Scharfoldendorf GermanySignals base. Used by No. 5 (Signals) Wing RAF
RAF Schleswigland Germany19451958Initially designated "B.164 Schleswig".[73]
RAF Sundern GermanyHanded over to British Army Westfalen Garrison, called "Mansergh Barracks"
RAF Sylt Germany1945
1949
1948
1961
(1945-8,1949–61) now Sylt Airport. Initially designated "B.170 Westerland"
RAF Tecklenburg GermanyNo. 659 Squadron RAF[93]
RAF Uetersen Germany19451955now Uetersen Airfield and German Airforce NCO Training School
RAF Wahn Germany[94] now Cologne Bonn Airport
RAF Wangelau GermanyNo. 659 Squadron RAF[94]
RAF Hospital Wegberg Germanynow occupied by the British Army, as HQ British Forces Germany Health Service (BFGHS)
RAF Westerkappelen GermanyNo. 653 Squadron RAF[95]
RAF Hospital Westerland (Sylt)[91] Germany
RAF Wester-Wisch GermanyNo. 662 Squadron RAF[95]
RAF Wildenrath Germany19521993[95]
RAF Winterberg GermanyGEE site – Master Winterberg AMES 7932
RAF Wunstorf Germany[95] now Wunstorf Air Base
RAF Zeven GermanyNo. 662 Squadron RAF[96]
RAF New Camp GibraltarNow Devil's Tower Camp
RAF North Front Gibraltar19421966[86] Former name of RAF Gibraltar
RAF Augusta Italy19451945[78] Sicily
RAF Bari Italy19431946[79] Now Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport
RAF Brindisi Italy19431946[80] now Brindisi – Salento Airport
RAF Catania Italy[82] now Catania-Fontanarossa Airport (Sardinia)
RAFSU Decimomannu Italy26 September 1997.[97]RAF Servicing Unit. Sardinia. Armament Practice and Air Combat Manoeuvring Camp. Controlled by Royal Air Force Germany. [98] Two different Light Warning Sets.
RAF Elmas Italy19431946.[85] Cagliari. Now Cagliari Elmas Airport, Sardinia
RAF Pomigliano Italy[99]
RAF Trigno Italy1943194542°03′52″N 14°47′17″E / 42.06444°N 14.78806°E / 42.06444; 14.78806.
  • No. 80 Sq 13 March ~ 10 April 1944
  • No. 208 Sq 17 March ~ 1 May 1944
  • No. 241 Sq 7 April ~ 1 June 1944
  • No. 318 Sq 1 May 1944 ~ 17 June 1944
  • USAAF Emergency Field 1944 ~ May 1945

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StationCountryNotes
RAF Hiswa Aden Protectorateaka RNAS Hiswa / HMS Rapax
RAF Khormaksar Aden ProtectorateThe largest RAF station in Arabia and a major staging post for aircraft travelling between the UK and India or the Far East. Closed upon the withdrawal from Aden in 1967 and now Aden International Airport.
RAF Riyan Aden ProtectorateSituated 3 miles south-west of current Riyan Airport, this was a small route station for the refuelling of aircraft in transit which opened in 1945 and closed in the 1960s due to the withdrawal from Aden.
RAF Sheikh Othman Aden Protectorate
RAF Steamer Point Aden Protectorateheadquarters / administrative facility
RAF Hospital Steamer Point Aden Protectorate
RAF Hospital Khormaksar Beach Aden Protectorate
RAF Kandahar AfghanistanMain operating airfield in Afghanistan for the RAF
RAF Blida Algeria1942–46
RAF Bone Algeria(1942–45) now Rabah Bitat Airport
RAF Jemappes Algeria
RAF Maison Blanche Algeria(1942–43) now Houari Boumediene Airport
RAF Setif Algeriapossibly Ain Arnat Airport
RAF Tingley Algeria
RAF Lagens Azores
RAF Muharraq
RAF Bahrain
Bahrain(1943–71) now Bahrain International Airport
RAF Ursel Belgium(?-1957) Initially designated "B.67 Ursel"
RAF Belize BelizeHeadquarters at Airport Camp, Ladyville
RAF Darrell's Island BermudaRoyal Air Force, Bermuda, 1939–1945
Kindley Air Force Base BermudaJoint RAF Transport Command/USAAF base
RAF Kuching British North BorneoNow Kuching International Airport
RAF Labuan British North BorneoNow Labuan Airport
RAF Tawau British North BorneoNow Tawau Airport
RAF Akyab Burma(1941–46)
RAF Dabaing Burma
RAF Hmawbi BurmaHmawbi Air Base, Myanmar Air Force
RAF Meiktila BurmaMeiktila Air Base, Myanmar Air Force Central Command
RAF Mergui Burma
RAF Mingaladon BurmaMingaladon Air Base HQ, Myanmar Air Force
RAF Pegu BurmaTaungoo Air Base, Myanmar Air Force
RAF Battambang Cambodia
RAF Mondulkiri Cambodia
RAF Stung Treng Cambodia
RAF Charlottetown CanadaRCAF field commanded by RAF officer; No. 31 General Reconnaissance School and No. 32 Air Navigation School (1941–1944) to RCAF Station Charlottetown
RAF Dorval Canada(1941–1946) to RCAF Station Lachine. Now Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport
RAF(U) Goose Bay Canada(1949–2005) now CFB Goose Bay
RAF China Bay Ceylon(1930–1957) – now SLAF China Bay[100]
Colombo Racecourse Airstrip CeylonRe-converted back to racecourse following World War II
RAF Ekala Ceylon
RAF Gangodawila Ceylon
RAF Kandy Ceylon(1941–1946)
RAF Kankesanturai Ceylon(1941–1945) now SLAF Palaly
RAF Koggala Ceylon(1940–1947) now SLAF Koggala
RAF Mawatagama Ceylon
RAF Minneriya Ceylon(1942–1945) now SLAF Hingurakgoda[101]
RAF Negombo Ceylon(1946–1957) – now the Bandaranaike International Airport & SLAF Katunayake
RAF Ratmalana
RAF Colombo
Ceylon(1941–1946) – now SLAF Ratmalana
RAF Sigiriya Ceylon(1942–1945) – now SLAF Sigiriya
RAF Trincomalee CeylonSee China Bay
RAF Vavuniya Ceylon(1942–1945) – now SLAF Vavuniya
RAF Cocos Islands Cocos (Keeling) Islands(1942–46)
RAF Aboukir Egypt1916–47, home to the Central Depot of RAF Middle East until 1939, also known as LG-34
RAF Abu Sueir Egypt(1917–1956), also known as LG-205, now Abu Suwayr Air Base
RAF Abu Sultan Egypt(1942–1955)
RAF Almaza EgyptAlso known as LG-245, now Almaza Air Base
RAF Cairo West Egypt(1942–46) also known as LG-224 and Kilo 26
RAF Deversoir Egypt(1942–53) also known as LG-209 and Kilo 61
RAF El Amiriya Egypt1919–1947, also recorded as El Rimal (1917–18)
RAF El Ballah Egypt1942–45, also known as LG-203 or RAF Ballah
RAF El Daba Egypt1942–45, also known as LG-105
RAF El Hamra Egypt
RAF Fayid Egypt(1940–53) also known as LG-211
RAF Gianaclis Egyptalso known as LG-226
RAF Heliopolis Egypt(1919–46) also known as LG-218
RAF Helwan Egypt(1918–44) also known as LG-221
RAF Idku Egypt(1941–45) also known as LG-229
RAF Ismailia EgyptAlso known as LG-204, now Al Ismailiyah Air Base
RAF Kabrit Egypt(Canal Zone) 1941–1954, also known as LG-213. Now Kibrit Air Base
RAF Kasfareet EgyptAlso known as LG-212
RAF Matruh West EgyptAlso known as LG-07 and 'Z' LG.
RAF Mersa Matruh EgyptAlso known as LG-87
RAF Shallufa Egypt(1918-9, 1940–8) Also known as LG-215
RAF Shandur Egypt(1941–43) Also known as LG-214
RAF Suez Egypt(1919–21, 1941–3) Also known as LGs-216 & 217
RAF Asmara British Military Administration (Eritrea)(1940–50). Now Asmara International Airport
RAF Stanley Falkland Islands
RAF Kelly's Garden Falkland Islands
RAF Navy Point Falkland Islands
RAF Christmas Island Gilbert and Ellice Islands(1956–57) now Cassidy International Airport, Kiritimati
RAF Bathurst British Gambia1941–45
RAF Half Die British Gambia1941–45
RAF Jeswang British Gambia1941–43
RAF Yundum British GambiaNow Banjul International Airport
RAF Accra Gold Coast(1941–46) Now Kotoka International Airport and Accra Air Force Station
RAF Takoradi Gold CoastNow Takoradi Airport main hub for Ghana Air Force
RAF Ho Man Tin (Ho Mum Tin) Hong KongNo. 393 Equipment Depot on Good Shepherd Street (now butCascades Block) 1946–1947. Family Residence on Ho Man Tin Hill Road present into 1970s but since demolished for Crescent Mansion residential block.
RAF Kai Tak Hong Kong(1927–1978) by RAF; transferred to Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force 1978–1993 and Government Flying Service 1993–1998; now being redeveloped as cruise ship terminal and other uses
RAF Little Sai Wan Hong Kong1947-1980s by RAF and allies for intelligence gathering from China; demolished and now residential development. Also known as Siu Sai Wan
RAF Sek Kong Hong Kong(1950-1980s and 1992–1997 by RAF; now home to People's Liberation Army Air Force helicopter squadron (PLAAF Helicopter Regiment 39968) 1997–present
RAF Shatin Hong Kong1949-1970s by RAF and Army Air Corps (United Kingdom) (1950s–1960s); redeveloped as residential housing
RAF Tai Mo Shan Hong Kong(Project Cabbage Leaf) – ex RAF and current Hong Kong Observatory weather radar station
RAF Kaldadarnes Iceland(1940–43)
RAF Olfus IcelandTRU radar station – later transferred to US becoming 'Camp Hughes'[75]
RAF Reykjavik Iceland
RAF Vik IcelandCOL radar station [75]
RAF Agra British Indian Empire(1919–20, 1944–46) now Agra Air Force Station
RAF Alipore British Indian Empire
RAF Allahabad British Indian Empirenow Bamrauli Air Force Station
RAF Amarda Road British Indian Empire21°48′18″N 087°02′49″E / 21.80500°N 87.04694°E / 21.80500; 87.04694
RAF Ambala British Indian Empire(1916–26 1939–47), now Ambala Air Force Station
RAF Agartala British Indian Empirenow Agartala Air Force Station
RAF Arkonam British Indian Empire(1942–45); Now INS Rajali, a Naval Air Station under Indian Navy.
RAF Asansol British Indian Empire(1941–44); now Burnpur Airport
RAF Baigachi British Indian Empire1942–46
RAF Barrackpore British Indian Empirenow Barrackpore Air Force Station
RAF Bhopal British Indian Empire(1943–46) now Raja Bhoj Airport
RAF Car Nicobar British Indian Empirenow Car Nicobar Air Force Base
RAF Chakeri British Indian Empirenow Chakeri Air Force Station
RAF Chaklala British Indian Empire(1935–47) now Benazir Bhutto International Airport and PAF Base Nur Khan
RAF Chakulia British Indian Empire(1942–46); 22°28′04″N 86°42′05″E / 22.467907°N 86.701441°E / 22.467907; 86.701441
RAF Chittagong British Indian Empirenow Shah Amanat International Airport, Bangladesh
RAF Comilla British Indian Empire(1942–46); now Comilla Airport
RAF Cox's Bazaar British Indian Empirenow Cox's Bazar Airport, Bangladesh
RAF Cholovaram British Indian Empire(1942–45); 13°12′37″N 80°09′08″E / 13.210161°N 80.152304°E / 13.210161; 80.152304
RAF Din Jan British Indian Empire(1941–42); 27°32′17″N 95°16′11″E / 27.537996°N 95.269702°E / 27.537996; 95.269702
RAF Dhubalia British Indian Empire23°29′35″N 88°27′14″E / 23.492985°N 88.454018°E / 23.492985; 88.454018
RAF Digri British Indian Empire22°47′15″N 87°21′42″E / 22.787447°N 87.361721°E / 22.787447; 87.361721
RAF Drigh Road
RAF Karachi
British Indian EmpireNow Pakistan Air Force Base Faisal
RAF Dum Dum British Indian Empire(1940–47) now Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport
RAF Fatehjang British Indian Empire(1944–46); 33°32′54″N 72°37′56″E / 33.548262°N 72.632119°E / 33.548262; 72.632119
RAF Gujrat British Indian Empire32°36′56″N 74°04′15″E / 32.615464°N 74.070798°E / 32.615464; 74.070798
RAF Hakimpet British Indian EmpireNow Hakimpet Air Force Station
RAF Imphal British Indian Empirenow Imphal Airport
RAF Jharsuguda British Indian Empirenow Jharsuguda Airport
RAF Jessore British Indian EmpireNow Jessore Airport
RAF Jiwani British Indian EmpireNow Jiwani Airport
RAF Jodhpur British Indian EmpireNow Jodhpur Air Force Station
RAF Kalyan British Indian EmpireSee Kalyan Airstrip
RAF Kanchrapara British Indian EmpireSee Kanchrapara Airfield
RAF Kohat British Indian EmpireSee Kohat Air Base
RAF Kolar British Indian Empire13°11′15″N 78°09′50″E / 13.187627°N 78.163979°E / 13.187627; 78.163979
RAF Korangi Creek British Indian EmpireNow Pakistan Air Force Base Korangi
RAF Lahore British Indian Empire
RAF Maharajpur British Indian Empirenow Maharajpur Air Force Station
RAF Mauripur British Indian Empire−1956 (used after partition by RAF) – now Pakistan Air Force Base Masroor
RAF Nagpur British Indian EmpireNow Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport and AFS Nagpur
RAF Ondal British Indian Empire23°35′39″N 87°13′28″E / 23.594300°N 87.224377°E / 23.594300; 87.224377
RAF Palam
RAF Delhi
British Indian Empire(1943–47) now Indira Gandhi International Airport
RAF Peshawar British Indian EmpireNow Pakistan Air Force Base Peshawar
RAF Poona British Indian Empirenow Lohegaon Air Force Station
RAF Quetta British Indian EmpireNow Pakistan Air Force Base Samungli
RAF Ranchi British Indian Empirenow Birsa Munda Airport
RAF Redhills Lake British Indian EmpireFlying boat and seaplane base
RAF Risalpur British Indian EmpireNow PAF Base Risalpur/Pakistan Air Force Academy
RAF Salbani British Indian Empire1942–1946;[102] 22°36′43″N 87°17′55″E / 22.61194°N 87.29861°E / 22.61194; 87.29861
RAF Santacruz British Indian Empirenow Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport
RAF Sargodha British Indian EmpireNow Pakistan Air Force Base Mushaf
RAF Secunderabad British Indian Empirenow Hakimpet Air Force Station
RAF Srinagar British Indian Empirenow Srinagar Air Force Station
RAF St Thomas Mount British Indian Empirenow Chennai International Airport
RAF Tambaram British Indian Empirenow Tambaram Air Force Station
RAF Trichinopoly British Indian EmpireAlso known as RAF Golden Rock/Kajamalai, now Tiruchirapalli International Airport
RAF Vizagapatam British Indian Empirenow Visakhapatnam Airport
RAF Willingdon British Indian Empirenow Safdarjung Airport
RAF Yelahanka
RAF Bangalore
British Indian Empirenow Yelahanka Air Force Station, Bangalore, Karnataka
RAF Tehran IranNow Mehrabad International Airport
RAF Basrah Iraq1916–46, 2006–9 now Basra International Airport
RAF Dhibban Iraq1936–1938 renamed to RAF Habbaniya in 1938)
RAF Habbaniya Iraq(1938–1959), renamed from RAF Dhibban in 1938
RAF Hinaidi Iraq
RAF Shaibah Iraq
RAF H1 Iraq(used as a relief landing ground during the 1920s to 1940s by 84 Squadron. Near Jordanian border)
RAF H2 Iraq(used as a relief landing ground during the 1920s to 1940s by 84 Squadron. Near Jordanian border)
RAF H3 Iraq(used as a relief landing ground during the 1920s to 1940s by 84 Squadron. Near Jordanian border)
RAF Iwakuni Allied Occupied Japan(1946–51)
RAF Zerqa Jordanbecame Dawson's Field (Dawson's Field hijackings)
RAF Mafraq Jordan
RAF Eastleigh
RAF Nairobi
Kenya(1929–51) now Moi Air Base
RAF Kisumu Kenya
RAF Nakuru Kenya
RAF Port Reitz
RAF Mombasa
KenyaNow Moi International Airport
RAF Thika Kenya
RAF Beirut Lebanon1941–45
RAF Benina Allied Occupation of Libya(1942–44) now Benina International Airport
RAF Castel Benito Allied Occupation of Libyalater RAF Idris(1952) now Tripoli International Airport
RAF Derna Allied Occupation of Libya
RAF El Adem
RAF Tobruk
Allied Occupation of LibyaAlso LG-144, now Gamal Abdul El Nasser Air Base
RAF Gambut Allied Occupation of Libyaalso known as RAF Kambut and LG-139
RAF Mellaha Allied Occupation of LibyaAlso Wheelus Air Base, now Mitiga International Airport
RAF Butterworth British Malayato 1957, thereafter RAAF Butterworth, now RMAF Butterworth
RAF Kota Bharu British Malaya– now Sultan Ismail Petra Airport
RAF Kuala Lumpur British Malayanow RMAF Kuala Lumpur
RAF Kuantan British Malayanow RMAF Kuantan
RAF Penang British Malaya
RAF Gan Maldivesnow Gan International Airport
RAF Hithadhoo Maldives(domestic site for RAF Gan)
RAF Hal Far Malta(1923–67) now an Armed Forces of Malta base – B Coy, 1st Regt
RAF Kalafrana Maltaalso known as RAF Calafrana
RAF Krendi Maltaalso known as RAF Qrendi
RAF Luqa Malta(1940–79), now the site of Malta International Airport
RAF Madalena MaltaRadar Station (with Type 80 Radar)
RAF Safi MaltaSupport base for RAF Luqa
RAF Siggiewi MaltaHome of No 840 Signals Unit
RAF Ta Kali Malta(Ta' Qali)
RAF Mauritius British Mauritius
RAF Oujda MoroccoNow Angads Airport
RAF Rabat Sale MoroccoNow Rabat–Salé Airport
RAF Eindhoven Netherlands(B.78) now Eindhoven Airport
RAF Woensdrecht Netherlands(B.79) now Woensdrecht Airbase
RAF Schijndel Netherlands(B.85)
RAF Twente Netherlands(B.106) now Enschede Airport Twente
RAF Volkel Netherlands(B.80) now Volkel Air Base
RAF Medan Netherlands East IndiesNow Soewondo Air Force Base
RAF Kemajoran Netherlands East IndiesOld Kemayoran Airport, closed in 1985
RAFU Goose Bay  Newfoundland(1941–1949) now CFB Goose Bay
RAF Apapa British Nigeria(1941–1945). Nigeria gained independence in 1960
RAF Ikeja British Nigerianow Murtala Muhammed International Airport
RAF Kano British Nigerianow Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport
RAF Maiduguri British NigeriaNow Maiduguri International Airport
RAF Masirah Oman1942–72. Largest RAF station in Oman, closed 31 March 1977
RAF Ras Al Hadd Oman
RAF Salalah Oman(1943–77). Route station for refuelling of aircraft in transit, now Salalah International Airport
RAF Aqir Mandatory Palestine(1941–47), now Tel Nof Israeli Air Force Base
RAF Beit Daras Mandatory Palestinealso known as Kiryat Gat (Kiriat-Gat) & El Faluja.
RAF Ein Shemer Mandatory Palestine(1942–48) now Ein Shemer Airfield
RAF Gaza Mandatory Palestine
RAF Haifa Mandatory Palestinenow Haifa Airport
RAF Hadera Mandatory Palestine
RAF Lydda Mandatory Palestinenow Ben Gurion International Airport
RAF Magiddo Mandatory Palestinenow Megiddo Airport
RAF Machanaim Mandatory Palestinenow Rosh Pina Airport
RAF Muqeible Mandatory PalestineSee Muqeible Airfield
RAF Petah Tiqva Mandatory Palestinenow Kfar Sirkin Airfield
RAF Qastina Mandatory PalestineNow Hatzor Israeli Air Force Base
RAF Ramat David Mandatory Palestinenow Ramat David Israeli Air Force Base
RAF Ramleh Mandatory Palestine
RAF St Jean Mandatory Palestine
RAF Al Udeid  QatarCo-located at Qatar Emiri Air Force base Al Udeid Air Base
RAF Seychelles Seychelles
RAF Hastings Sierra Leone
RAF Jui Sierra Leone
RAF Waterloo Sierra Leone
RAF Amoy Quee SingaporeNow Singapore Armed Forces Amoy Quee Camp (Seletar)
RAF Changi Singapore(1946–1971) now Changi Air Base and Singapore Changi Airport
RAF Chia Keng SingaporeA GCHQ radio receiving station and a satellite station (closed down in 1971) affiliated to RAF Changi
RAF Gombak SingaporeAn RAF radar station affiliated to RAF Tengah
RAF Jurong SingaporeA GCHQ radio receiving station and a satellite station (closed down in 1971) affiliated to RAF Tengah
RAF Kallang SingaporeOld Kallang Airport (closed down in 1955)
RAF Seletar Singapore(1930–71), now Seletar Airport
RAF Sembawang SingaporeNow Sembawang Air Base, also known as HMS Simbang in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm service
RAF Tengah Singapore(1939–71) Now Tengah Air Base
RAF Heany Southern Rhodesia
RAF Kumalo Southern Rhodesia
RAF Thornhill Southern RhodesiaNow Gweru-Thornhill Air Base, Zimbabwe
RAF El Gedida SudanAlso known as RAF Wadi Halfa, now Wadi Halfa Airport
RAF Gordon's Tree
RAF Khartoum
Sudannow Khartoum International Airport
RAF Port Sudan Sudan
RAF Summit Sudan
RAF Wadi Saidna Sudan
RAF Dar-es-Salaam Tanganyika1918, 1932–51
RAF Pingtung Taiwan1950–91, now Pingtung Airport
RAF Bangkok Thailand1945–46, now Don Mueang International Airport
RAF Amman TransjordanThe Transjordan was a British mandate territory until 1946 when it became the kingdom of Jordan. Now Amman Civil Airport
RAF Mafraq TransjordanThe Transjordan was a British mandate territory until 1946 when it became the kingdom of Jordan.
Souk-el-Arba Tunisia1942
Souk-el-Khemis Tunisia(1943) Made up of several dispersals, code-named after London railway stations (Paddington, Victoria, Marylebone, Waterloo, Euston and Kings Cross known)
RAF Sharjah United Arab Emirates(1932–71) Now Sharjah International Airport
RAF Saigon VietnamNow Tan Son Nhut Air Base

Overseas Royal Flying Corps (WWI) and British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (WWII) airfields

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Long Branch AerodromeMississauga, Ontario CanadaWorld War I training airfield 1917–1919; industrial land now a vacant brownfield
Leaside AerodromeToronto CanadaWorld War I training airfield 1918–1919; later used by Toronto Flying Club and now industrial area
Armour Heights FieldToronto CanadaWorld War I training airfield 1917–1919; now residential neighbourhood
Camp TaliaferroFort Worth, Texas United StatesWorld War I training airfield 1917–1918
Malton Airport – Mississauga CanadaWorld War II British Commonwealth Air Training Plan facility (No. 1 Elementary Service Flying School) 1940–1942; now Toronto-Pearson International Airport
Mount Hope AirportHamilton, Ontario CanadaWorld War II British Commonwealth Air Training Plan facility (No.10 Elementary Flying Training School and No.33 Air Navigation School) 1940–1945; now Hamilton International Airport
CFB GreenwoodGreenwood, Nova Scotia CanadaBritish Commonwealth Air Training Plan RAF Station Greenwood built 1940–1942 and shared with RCAF 1942–1944; transferred to RCAF July 1944
CFB WinnipegWinnipeg, Manitoba CanadaBritish Commonwealth Air Training Plan as RCAF Winnipeg during WWII
CFB BordenBorden, Ontario CanadaBritish Commonwealth Air Training Plan airfield during WWII and No. 1 Service Flying Training School (SFTS) (until 1946)
CFB Moose JawMoose Jaw, Saskatchewan CanadaBritish Commonwealth Air Training Plan airfield during WWII 1941–1946; home to RAF's No. 32 Service Flying Training School (SFTS) 1942–1946
CFB TrentonTrenton, Ontario CanadaBritish Commonwealth Air Training Plan airfield during WWII – RCAF Central Flying School, No. 1 Air Navigation School (to 1942), No. 1 Flying Instructor School, and No. 1 Composite Training School.
CFB North BayNorth Bay, Ontario CanadaBritish Commonwealth Air Training Plan airfield during WWII

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  1. ^ Berkshire 1932–1974

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