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.
The stations are listed under any former county or country name which was appropriate for the duration of operation. Stations initially took their name from the nearest railway station or halt to the airfield, e.g., RAF Abingdon from Abingdon railway station. It has also been stated that RAF stations took their name from the parish in which the station headquarters was located.

British Isles

StationPundit Code/USAAF Station CodeCountryCountyYear 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 AbingdonABEnglandOxfordshire19321992Transferred to the British Army and became Dalton Barracks. Airfield continued to be used for RAF helicopter training and gliding.
RAF Acaster MalbisAMEnglandWest Riding of Yorkshire19421957
RAF AcklingtonAIEnglandNorthumberland19161975Formerly a World War I landing ground known as Southfields. Now Her Majesty's Prison Northumberland
RAF Akeman StreetEnglandOxfordshire19401947
RAF AldergroveJVNorthern IrelandCounty Antrim19182009Became Joint Helicopter Command Flying Station Aldergrove – now without any permanent RAF lodger units. Incorporates Belfast International Airport.
RAF AldermastonAMEnglandBerkshire19421950Became part of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, now Atomic Weapons Establishment
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 CreekEnglandLincolnshire19391945Second 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 Man19411947
RAF AngleAEWalesPembrokeshire19411950
RAF AnnanAGScotlandDumfriesshire19421945Since 1955 the site of Chapelcross nuclear power station, which is being decommissioned
RAF AnstyEnglandWarwickshire19361953
RAF AnwickEnglandLincolnshire19161918
RAF AppledramAO EnglandSussex19431944
RAF AscotEnglandBerkshire19161919
RAF AshbourneASEnglandDerbyshire19421954
RAF AshfordEnglandKent19431944ALG, near Egerton
RAF Aston DownADEnglandGloucestershire19381976
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 Air Crew Receiving Centre, originally and now Babbacombe Theatre.
RAF Babdown FarmBFEnglandGloucestershire19401948
RAF BactonEnglandNorfolk10151919First 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 BaldonnelDublin19171965now 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 BawdseyEnglandSuffolk19361990Once home to the Telecommunications Research Establishmentradar research. Now still home to the RAF Sailing Association. Some preservation of the remaining WW2 radar site and museum can be found on site.
RAF BawtryEnglandSouth Yorkshire19411986No. 1 Group Bomber Command H.Q., RAF Strike Command H.Q. & eventually RAF Meteorological Service H.Q.
RAF BeaulieuBLEnglandHampshire19151947
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 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. Former Officers' Mess now the Bentley Priory Museum.
RAF BentwatersBYEnglandSuffolk19441993Site 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.
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 HillEnglandKent19171992now Biggin Hill Airport
RAF BinbrookBKEnglandLincolnshire19401988
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 BlaenanerchWalesCeredigion19391941Renamed RAF Aberporth, now West Wales Airport
RAF Black IsleScotlandRoss and Cromarty19411945No. 42 Satellite Landing Ground
RAF BlackbusheEnglandHampshire19441960
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 HallEnglandLincolnshire1940Dats1946RAF 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 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, 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.
RAF BottesfordAQEnglandLeicestershire19411945
RAF BottishamIMEnglandCambridgeshire19401946
RAF BoulmerEnglandNorthumberland1940RAF Boulmer remains open, but the present radar control station is at a different location from the wartime airfield. During the 1970s the former airfield communal site was redeveloped as an air-sea rescue helicopter base, which closed in 2015.
RAF BournAUEnglandCambridgeshire19411948
RAF BovingdonBVEnglandHertfordshire19421972
RAF BowmoreScotlandArgyllshire19401945Flying boat base, satellite to RAF Oban
RAF BoxtedBXEnglandEssex19431947A small museum is located on side of airfield.
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 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
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 BridgnorthEnglandShropshire1940
RAF BridlingtonEnglandEast Riding of Yorkshire19291980Air gunnery and wireless operator courses held during the Second World War; No. 1104 MCU operated between 1929 and 1980
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.
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
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 Group H.Q. & Second World War Landing Ground
RAF CaerauWalesCardiff19391944HQ No. 14 Balloon Unit. 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. 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
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 Fermanagh19411946Flying 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. Re-opened in 1928 at 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
RAF Charmy DownCHEnglandSomerset19401946
RAF CharterhallKHScotlandBerwickshire19421946
RAF Chattis HillEnglandHampshire19171919
RAF CheadleEnglandStaffordshire19391964Operations transferred to Government Communications Headquarters 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 and the headquarters of the Intelligence Corps. Now the Joint Intelligence Training Group.
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
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 CollinstownDublin19181922now Dublin Airport.
RAF CollywestonEnglandNorthamptonshire19181941Landing ground, subsumed when absorbed by the westerly runway extension at RAF Wittering
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.
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 CookstownDublin
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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 and used 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, 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
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
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.
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, 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
RAF DoncasterEnglandYorkshire19161954formerly RFC Doncaster Royal Flying Corps
RAF DonibristleScotlandFife19171939Opened by Royal Naval Air Service in 1917 and returned to the Royal Navy in 1939 as RNAS Donibristle
RAF Donna NookZNEnglandLincolnshire19271945Now an offshore 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 was redeveloped as 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 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 in 1942
RAF DunkeswellDWEnglandDevon19431949USN from 1944
RAF DunsfoldEnglandSurrey19421945later BAE Systems Dunsfold, now Dunsfold Aerodrome, and Top Gear studio and race track
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 Imperial War Museum Duxford
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 Standford Hill
RAF EastleighEnglandHampshire19101920
1961
Reopened 1961, now Southampton Airport
RAF EdlesboroughEnglandBuckinghamshire 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.
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
RAF Hospital ElyEnglandCambridgeshire19391992
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
RAF ExeterEXEnglandDevon19371946Previously and now Exeter International Airport
RAF EyeEYEnglandSuffolk19441945USAAF
RAF FairoaksEnglandSurrey19371967Now Fairoaks Airport
RAF FairlopEnglandEssex19411945
RAF Fairwood CommonFCWalesWest Glamorgan19411946Now Swansea Airport
RAF FaldingworthFHEnglandLincolnshire19431972
RAF FarnboroughEnglandHampshire19111996Former Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough, now Farnborough Airport
RAF FauldEnglandStaffordshiresee RAF Fauld Explosion
RAF FazakerleyEnglandLancashire
RAF FearnScotlandRoss and Cromarty19411942Transferred to Royal Navy in 1942 as "HMS Owl".
RAF FelixstoweEnglandSuffolk19131962
RAF FersfieldWFEnglandNorfolk19441945
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 FinningleyFBEnglandYorkshire19151996Now Doncaster Sheffield Airport
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 EnglandLincolnshire19431963
RAF FordEnglandSussex19181920
1940
Became 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.
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 FreistonEnglandLincolnshire
RAF FristonEnglandSussex19361945
RAF Frost Hill FarmEnglandHampshire19401945ALG
RAF FulbeckFK/FB EnglandLincolnshire19411970
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
RAF GormanstonRepublic of IrelandCounty Meath1917Feb 1920Now the Irish Army Gormanston Camp
RAF GosfieldEnglandEssex19431945
RAF GosportEnglandHampshire19151945Became in 1945
RAF GoxhillGXEnglandLincolnshire19411953
RAF Grafton UnderwoodGUEnglandNorthamptonshire19431959
RAF GrainEnglandKent19161924Airship and seaplane base, also known as RAF Port Victoria
RAF GrangemouthScotlandStirlingshire19391955Also known as "Central Scotland Airport"
RAF Gransden LodgeGDEnglandBedfordshire19421955
RAF GranthamEnglandLincolnshire – now a Territorial Army establishment
RAF GraveleyGREnglandHuntingdonshire19421968
RAF GravesendEnglandKent19371956Now Gravesend Airport
RAF Great AshfieldGA ?EnglandSuffolk19431960
RAF Great DunmowGDEnglandEssex19431958
RAF Great MassinghamGMEnglandNorfolk19401958
RAF Great SampfordEnglandEssex19421948
RAF Great WitcombeEnglandGloucestershire
RAF Great YarmouthEnglandNorfolkFirst World War landing ground
RAF GreathamEnglandCounty DurhamAlso known as RAF West Hartlepool
RAF GreatworthEnglandNorthamptonshire19431992Sold for civilian uses and became Greatworth Park Business Park, utilising station buildings.
RAF GreencastleNorthern IrelandCounty Down19421945
RAF Greenham CommonEnglandBerkshire19421991
RAF Greenland TopEnglandLincolnshire
RAF GreenockScotlandRenfrewshire19401945Flying boat maintenance facility
RAF GrimsbyGYEnglandLincolnshire19411946
RAF GrimsetterScotlandOrkney19401943Also known as RAF Kirkwall. Transferred to Royal Navy in 1943 as "HMS Robin". Now Kirkwall Airport.
RAF Grimsthorpe ParkEnglandLincolnshire
RAF GroveEnglandBerkshire19421946
RAF Guston DownEnglandKent19141919
RAF Hack GreenEnglandCheshirenow Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker
RAF HalesworthHAEnglandSuffolk19421946
RAF Halfpenny GreenEnglandStaffordshire19411953Formerly RAF Bobbington
RAF Hall CaineIsle of ManFormerly Hall Caine Airport, now farmland
RAF Hospital HaltonEnglandBuckinghamshire19271995Demolished in 2008, site sold and redeveloped for housing.
RAF HambleEnglandHampshire19311978
RAF HammerwoodEnglandSussex19431944ALG
RAF Hampstead NorrisHNEnglandBerkshire
RAF HamworthyEnglandDorsetshire
RAF HandforthEnglandCheshire
RAF HanworthEnglandSurrey
RAF HardwickHCEnglandNorfolk19421962
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
RAF Harpur HillEnglandDerbyshireMunitions storage depot
RAF Hartford BridgeEnglandHampshire19411953Later renamed RAF Blackbushe, now Blackbushe Airport
RAF HarringtonEnglandNorthamptonshire19431963
RAF HarrogateEnglandYorkshire19401994Sold, buildings demolished and site redeveloped for housing.
RAF HarrowbeerHHEnglandDevon19411950
RAF HarwellHWEnglandOxfordshire19371945
RAF HatfieldEnglandHertfordshire19391956RAF/ATA use of de Havilland's Hatfield Aerodrome
RAF HaverfordwestWalesPembrokeshire19431956
RAF HawardenWalesFlintshire1939195748 MU Aircraft Storage Unit, now Hawarden Airport
RAF HawkingeEnglandKent19141963
RAF HaydockEnglandLancashireAlso known as RAF Blackbrook
RAF HeadcornHCEnglandKent19431945
RAF Headley CourtEnglandSurrey19461985Now the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre operated by Defence Medical Services, part of Joint Forces Command.
RAF HednesfordEnglandStaffordshire19381956
RAF Heigham HolmesEnglandNorfolkfictional airfield location
RAF HelensburghScotlandDunbartonshire19391945Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment
RAF Hell's MouthWalesGwynedd
RAF HemswellHLEnglandLincolnshire19371967
RAF HendonEnglandMiddlesex19101957Airfield redeveloped into Graham Park housing estate and RAF Museum.
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
RAF High HaldenHHEnglandKent19431944
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 HolyheadWalesIsle of Anglesey
RAF HoneybourneHQEnglandWorcestershire19411946
RAF HonileyEnglandWarwickshire19411958
RAF Hooton ParkEnglandCheshire19171957
RAF HoptonEnglandSuffolk
RAF HorhamJHEnglandSuffolk19421963
RAF Hornby HallEnglandWestmorland19411945No. 9 SLG
RAF HornchurchEnglandEssex19281962Formerly 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 BosworthHZEnglandLeicestershire19431956
RAF Hutton CranswickEnglandYorkshire19421946
RAF HytheEnglandHampshire19151919
RAF IbsleyIBEnglandHampshire19411947
RAF ImminghamEnglandLincolnshire
RAF InghamEnglandLincolnshire
RAF InnsworthEnglandGloucestershire19402008Transferred to British Army and became Imjin Barracks
RAF Isle of GrainEnglandKent 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 KidbrookeEnglandLondon19171965
RAF KidlingtonEnglandOxfordshire19381951now Oxford Airport
RAF KidsdaleScotlandWigtownshire19371943Joint RAF/Army gunnery range – also known as Burrow Head. To War Department in 1943.
RAF KilladeasNorthern IrelandCounty Fermanagh19421947
RAF KimboltonKIEnglandHuntingdonshire19411946
RAF Kings CliffeEnglandNorthamptonshire19411959
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 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 for RAF Lossiemouth.
RAF KinnellScotlandAngus19421948
RAF KirkbrideEnglandCumbria
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
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, now Lashenden Airfield
RAF LavenhamLVEnglandSuffolk19431948
RAF LeadenhamEnglandLincolnshire
RAF LeanachScotlandInverness-shire19411945No. 43 Satellite Landing Ground
RAF LeconfieldLCEnglandEast 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 in 1939
RAF Leicester EastEnglandLeicestershireNow Leicester Airport
RAF LeistonEnglandSuffolk19431953Also known as RAF Yoxford
RAF LennoxloveScotlandEast Lothian19411945No. 27 Satellite Landing Ground.
RAF LeucharsScotlandFife19202015Transferred to the British Army and became Leuchars Station. Maintained as a Relief Landing Ground for RAF Lossiemouth.
RAF LichfieldLFEnglandStaffordshire19401958
RAF LimavadyNorthern IrelandCounty Londonderry19401945
RAF LindholmeLBEnglandYorkshire19401985, now HM Prison Lindholme
RAF LissettLTEnglandYorkshire19431945
RAF Little HorwoodLHEnglandBuckinghamshire
RAF Little RissingtonEnglandGloucestershire
RAF Little SnoringLSEnglandNorfolk19431958
RAF Little StaughtonLXEnglandCambridgeshire19421945
RAF Little WaldenLLEnglandEssex19441945
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
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 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/, now private landing strip
RAF Lulsgate BottomEnglandSomerset19401946Now Bristol Airport
RAF LutonEnglandBedfordshire19381946Now London Luton Airport
RAF Lydd 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.
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 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 and Defence Fire Training and Development Centre
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
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.
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 MowbrayEnglandLeicestershire19431964
RAF MemburyMEEnglandBerkshire19421947
RAF MendleshamMDEnglandSuffolk19441954
RAF MepalMPEnglandCambridgeshire19431963now Mepal Airfield
RAF MerstonEnglandSussex19411944USAAF 1942–43. Used by French RAF pilots during D-Day
RAF MerryfieldHI, MFEnglandSomerset19441946USAAF 1944–45, now RNAS Merryfield from 1971. Formerly known as RAF Isle Abbots
RAF MetfieldEnglandSuffolk19431945
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 Durham Tees Valley Airport
RAF MilfieldEnglandNorthumberland19421946Previously used as landing ground known as "Woodbridge" during 1917.
RAF Mill GreenEnglandHertfordshire19431948
RAF MillomEnglandCumbria19411945Now HM Prison Haverigg
RAF MilltownScotlandMorayshire1943To Royal Navy as "HMS Fulmar II" in 1946. Returned to RAF in 1972. Closed to flying in 1977 and became a communications site. Since closed.
RAF MinchinhamptonEnglandGloucestershire19181919
RAF MissonEnglandNottinghamshire
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
RAF Mousehold HeathEnglandNorfolk1914 under RFC, became first Norwich Airport in 1933
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 NetheravonEnglandWiltshire19191957AAC Netheravon 1963–2012
RAF NewchurchEnglandKent19431944ALG
RAF NewhavenEnglandSussex19171919Newhaven Seaplane Base
RAF NewmarketNMEnglandSuffolk19391945
RAF New RomneyEnglandKent19171919 Became Littlestone Airfield post-war, used as an Emergency Landing Ground
RAF New RomneyEnglandKent19421944 Also known as RAF Honeychild
RAF NewtonNAEnglandNottinghamshire19371955
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 NorthleachEnglandGloucestershire19421944
RAF NortonEnglandYorkshire
RAF Norton DisneyEnglandLincolnshireOriginally named RAF Swinderby
RAF NuneatonNUEnglandLeicestershirealso known as RAF Lindley
RAF Nuneham ParkEnglandOxfordshire
RAF NuthampsteadNTEnglandHertfordshire19431954
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 ObanScotlandArgyllshire19391945Flying boat station. Not to be confused with the present Oban Airport.
RAF OkehamptonEnglandDevonAlso known as "Folly Gate"
RAF Old BuckenhamOEEnglandNorfolk19431945
RAF Old SarumEnglandWiltshire19171971now Old Sarum Airfield
RAF OssingtonONEnglandNottinghamshire19421946
RAF OultonOUEnglandNorfolk19401947
RAF OustonEnglandNorthumberland19411974Now Albemarle Barracks near Heddon on the Wall.
RAF PadgateEnglandLancashire
RAF PembreyWalesCarmarthenshire19401957
RAF Pembroke DockWalesPembrokeshire19301957
RAF Pengam MoorsWalesSouth Glamorgan19371953
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 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 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
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. 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 Swanwick.
RAF PucklechurchEnglandGloucestershire19391959Now HM Prison Ashfield
RAF PulboroughEnglandSussex19401945Emergency Landing Ground
RAF PulhamEnglandNorfolkused for the development of British airships between the wars
RAF QuedgeleyEnglandGloucestershire19391995Site sold and redeveloped as Kingsway Village.
RAF RackheathRKEnglandNorfolk19431945
RAF RadlettEnglandHertfordshire19401945Aldenham Lodge Hotel requisitioned as the headquarters of No. 80 Wing, not the Handley Page Airfield
RAF RamsburyRYEnglandWiltshire19421945
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
RAF RaucebyEnglandLincolnshireNo 4 RAF Hospital between 1940 and 1947 – became Rauceby Mental Hospital
RAF RaydonRAEnglandSuffolk19421958
RAF ReadingEnglandBerkshire
RAF RearsbyEnglandLeicestershireA former flying club airfield was the base for Taylorcraft Aeroplanes Ltd changed its name to The Auster Aircraft Company Ltd.
RAF RedhillEnglandSurrey19371954now Redhill Aerodrome
RAF RednalEnglandShropshire1942–19451945now Rednal Airfield
RAF Regents ParkEnglandCity of WestminsterNo. 1 Air Crew Reception Centre
RAF RenfrewScotlandRenfrewshire1925Opened 1915 as manufacturer's airfield, subsequently a civil airfield until closure in 1966. RAuxAF 602 Squadron formed 1925. RAF use ceased after WW2.
RAF RhooseWalesSouth Glamorgan19421952Now Cardiff Airport
RAF RiccallRCEnglandYorkshire19421946
RAF RidgewellRDEnglandEssex19421957
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
RAF RochesterEnglandKent193819531938 location of No 23 Elementary and Reserve Flying Training School.
RAF Rochford
RAF Southend
EnglandEssexMay 19151945Now London Southend Airport
RAF RonaldswayIsle of Man1943
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 SawbridgeworthZHEnglandHertfordshire19161946Originally established in WW1 as a Night Landing Ground for 39 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 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, now Defence Electronics and Components Agency. 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 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
RAF ShobdonEnglandHerefordshire19401946Now Shobdon Aerodrome
RAF Shoreham EnglandSussex19141921
RAF Shoreham EnglandSussex19401946Wartime requisition of Shoreham Airport
RAF ShrewtonEnglandWiltshire19401946Relief landing ground
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
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 Liverpool John Lennon Airport
RAF SpilsbySLEnglandLincolnshire
RAF SpitalgateEnglandLincolnshire19161975, 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. Transferred to British Army and became Beacon Barracks and MOD Stafford.
RAF StanbridgeEnglandBedfordshire19392013Also known as RAF Leighton Buzzard. Site sold for redevelopment, station buildings demolished.
RAF Stanley ParkEnglandLancashireNow Blackpool Zoo
RAF Stanmore ParkEnglandMiddlesex
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, not used in WW2, now a Heritage Centre and private airfield
RAF StracathroScotlandAngus19411948
RAF StradishallNXEnglandSuffolk19381970now HMP Highpoint prison.
RAF StratfordNFEnglandWarwickshire19421945Formerly RAF Atherstone
RAF StravithieScotlandFife19411945Bo. 26 Satellite Landing Ground.
RAF StrubbyNYEnglandLincolnshire19431972
RAF SturgateEnglandLincolnshire19441964now Sturgate Airfield
RAF SudburySUEnglandSuffolk19441945
RAF Sullom VoeScotlandShetland19391952Flying boat station.
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 SwingfieldEnglandKent19161945WWII 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 TainScotlandRoss and Cromarty19411946Disused airfield within boundaries of the current bombing range.
RAF TalbennyWalesPembrokeshire19421946
RAF TangmereEnglandSussex19171979
RAF Tarrant RushtonEnglandDorsetshire19431947
RAF TatenhillVLEnglandStaffordshire19411947 – 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 ThatchamEnglandBerkshire2001
RAF ThameEnglandBuckinghamshireNow Haddenham Airfield
RAF ThealeEnglandBerkshireNow gravel pits
RAF TheddlethorpeEnglandLincolnshire
RAF ThetfordEnglandNorfolk
RAF TholthorpeTHEnglandYorkshire19401948
RAF ThornabyTBEnglandYorkshire19291958
RAF Thorney IslandEnglandHampshire19381976Transferred to the British Army in 1984 and became Baker Barracks.
RAF Thorpe AbbottsTAEnglandNorfolk19431956
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
RAF TilsheadEnglandWiltshire19251941
RAF TilstockOKEnglandShropshire19421946
RAF TipnorEnglandHampshire19171919Balloon station
RAF TireeScotlandInverness-shire19411946Now Tiree Airport, used as civil airport since 1937.
RAF ToomeNorthern IrelandCounty Antrim19431954
RAF TorquayEnglandDevon
RAF TowynWalesMerionethshire19401945
RAF TrebelzueEnglandCornwallSubsumed by RAF St Mawgan during WWII
RAF Truleigh HillEnglandSussex
RAF TuddenhamTDEnglandSuffolk19431963
RAF TurnberryScotlandAyrshire19171945Used 1917-18 and as a landing ground in the 1930s. Full aerodrome reopened in 1942.
RAF TurnhouseScotlandMidlothian19161997Now Edinburgh Airport
RAF TurwestonTUEnglandBuckinghamshire19421945Now Turweston Aerodrome
RAF Twinwood FarmEnglandBedfordshire19411945
RAF Tydd St MaryEnglandLincolnshire
RAF UpavonUAEnglandWiltshire19121993Transferred to the British Army and became 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 IslandEnglandLancashire
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 WatchetEnglandSomerset19371940
RAF WatchfieldEnglandOxfordshire19401950
RAF WaterbeachWJEnglandCambridgeshire19411963From 1966 to 2013 called Waterbeach Barracks – British 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 Airfield.
RAF WattonWNEnglandNorfolk19391976
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 RaynhamWREnglandNorfolk19391944
RAF WestcottWXEnglandBuckinghamshire19421945Became the Rocket Propulsion Establishment
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 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 WeybourneEnglandNorfolk19391942
RAF Wheaton AstonWHEnglandStaffordshire19411947Post war was used as a camp for Polish immigrants. Now used for pig farming.
RAF WhitchurchEnglandSomerset
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 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 WilmslowEnglandCheshireThe 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 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 annexe 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 Barracks
RAF WortleyEnglandYorkshire
RAF Wratting CommonWWEnglandCambridgeshire19431946
RAF WrexhamWalesDenbighshire19411945Also known as RAF Borras
RAF WroughtonEnglandWiltshire19401972Became a Royal Navy Air Yard 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

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.
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 CEW R10 ROTOR Radar Station on the Isle of Lewis.
RAF AnstrutherScotlandFife R3 ROTOR Radar Station near Anstruther, Fife.
RAF AshEnglandKentNear Woodnesborough
RAF BallymartinNorthern IrelandCounty DownChain Home Low
RAF BamburghEnglandNorthumberlandCHL 41A/CEW/CHEL Site K157
RAF Bard HillEnglandNorfolkCoast defence /Chain Home Low radar station near Holt
RAF Barnton QuarryScotlandLothian Rotor SOC and RSG near Edinburgh
RAF BawburghEnglandNorfolk former RAF Eastern Sector Control HQ, ROTOR Station and SOC near Norwich
RAF BawdseyEnglandSuffolkCH, CHEL, R3 GCI ROTOR Radar Station
RAF Beachy HeadEnglandSussexChain Home Low /CD M10, then
RAF Beer HeadEnglandDevonCHL 13A/CHEL K165
RAF BemptonEnglandYorkshirenear Bridlington, formerly RAF Flamborough Head – later developed as ROTOR R1 CEW station
RAF Ben HoughScotlandTireeChain Home Low radar station on summit of Beinn Hough
RAF BinbrookEnglandLincolnshire – NATO ACE High Tropo-scatter LOS microwave terminal
RAF BlackheadNorthern IrelandCounty AntrimChain Home Low
RAF Blackpool TowerEnglandLancashireBlackpool – AMES No. 64
RAF BlackgangEnglandIsle of WightGCI 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 GCI R3 Type 80 ROTOR Radar Station & Control and Reporting Centre in the UK Air Surveillance and Control System
RAF Brandy BayEnglandDorsetshireRadar and GEE site near Tyneham
RAF BranscombeEnglandDevonChain Home Station CH13
RAF BrenishScotlandWestern IslesChain Home Radar Station. AMES No. 97
RAF BrideIsle of Man
RAF Brizlee WoodEnglandNorthumberland – NATO ACE High Tropo-scatter site
RAF Broad BayScotlandWestern IslesChain Home Radar Station
RAF BuchanScotlandAberdeenshire
RAF CalvoEnglandCumbria
RAF CanewdonEnglandEssexChain Home Radar Station CH22
RAF CarsaigScotlandIsle of MullCHL
RAF Cape GrecoCyprusNATO ACE High Tropo-scatter site
RAF Castell MawrWalesAngleseyChain Home Station AMES No. 67
RAF CheniesEnglandBuckinghamshire
RAF CrosslawScotlandBerwickshire
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 HesledonEnglandCo. DurhamROTOR R1 CEW/CHEL Station
RAF Coldblow LaneEnglandKent – NATO Ace High Tropospheric scatter site, near Detling
RAF Collafirth HillScotlandShetlandLOS microwave site for NATO ACE High.
RAF CombertonEnglandWorcestershire
RAF Crannoch HillScotlandBanffshireCD/CHL
RAF CrasterEnglandNorthumberlandCD/CHL
RAF CreignishIsle of ManCHL
RAF CresswellEnglandNorthumberland
RAF CrickladeEnglandGloucestershireGCI Radar Station
RAF CromartyScotlandRoss and CromartyChain Home Low Radar Station – AMES No. 48A
RAF CrustanScotlandOrkney IslandsCHL
RAF DalbyIsle of Man
RAF Danby BeaconEnglandNorth YorkshireCH/ROTOR station near Lealholm
RAF DeernessScotlandOrkney IslandsCHL
RAF Donna NookEnglandLincolnshireChain Home Extra Low radar station, now offshore bombing range.
RAF Doonies HillScotlandAberdeenChain Home Low Station near Gregness
RAF Douglas WoodScotlandAngusChain Home Radar Station near Monikie
RAF DoverEnglandKentChain Home Station CH04
RAF DownderryEnglandCornwallCH15 Radar Station
RAF DownhillNorthern IrelandCounty Londonderry
RAF Drone HillScotlandBordersChain Home radar station near Coldingham
RAF Dry TreeEnglandCornwallCH Station Goonhilly Downs
RAF Dunderhole PointEnglandCornwallCoastal Defence/Chain Home Low station near Tintagel
RAF DunkirkEnglandKentChain Home station near Faversham
RAF Dunnet HeadScotlandCaithnessCoast Defence U-Boat Radar Station near Thurso
RAF DunwichEnglandSuffolkChain Home Low Station CHL28A
RAF EasingtonEnglandYorkshireCHEL near Easington
RAF EorodaleScotlandIsle of LewisChain Home Low Radar Station
RAF Fair IsleScotlandShetlandCDU station
RAF FairlightEnglandSussexChain Home Low Station CHL03A, later 'GWB' R2 CHEL ROTOR Station
RAF Faraid HeadScotlandSutherland
RAF FollyWalesPembrokeshireCFP Combined filter plot near Nolton
RAF Foreness PointEnglandKentChain Home Low Station CHL05A, later 'WJW' ROTOR R2 CHEL
RAF FormbyEnglandLancashire
RAF FullartonScotlandAyrshire. Later RAF Gailes
RAF GlenarmNorthern IrelandCounty Antrim
RAF GoldsboroughEnglandYorkshirenear Whitby – 'JEX' R2 CHEL ROTOR Radar Station
RAF Great BromleyEnglandEssex
RAF Great OrmeWalesConwynear Llandudno
RAF Greian HeadScotlandBarra
RAF GreystoneNorthern IrelandCounty DownAMES No. 61
RAF GrutnessScotlandShetland Islandsnear Sumburgh
RAF Hack GreenEnglandCheshire'HAK' R6 GCI ROTOR Station
RAF HappisburghEnglandNorfolk
RAF Hartland PointEnglandDevon'HAT' R8 GCI ROTOR Station
RAF HawcoatEnglandLancashirenear Barrow in Furness
RAF Hawks TorEnglandDevonnear Plymouth
RAF Hayscastle CrossWalesPembrokeshireCH Type 80
RAF High StreetEnglandSuffolkChain Home Station CH28 in Darsham, near Saxmundham IP17 3QD
RAF Highdown HillEnglandSussexChain Home Low station near Angmering
RAF HillheadScotlandAberdeenshireCH Station near Memsie
RAF HolmptonEnglandYorkshireRadar – Support Command – UK Air CCIS – Now open to visitors
RAF Hope CoveEnglandDevon'HOP' R6 Rotor GCI Control Bunker
RAF HoptonEnglandNorfolk
RAF HumberstoneEnglandLincolnshire
RAF HytheEnglandKent
RAF IngoldmellsEnglandLincolnshire
RAF InverbervieScotlandAberdeenshire'LGZ' CEW R1 ROTOR Radar Station
RAF IslivigScotlandIsle of Lewis
RAF JackaEnglandCornwallChain Home Low station near Portloe
RAF Kelvedon HatchEnglandEssex'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 RNAS Kete near Dale
RAF KilchiaranScotlandIslay CHEL R11 ROTOR Radar Station
RAF KilkeelNorthern IrelandCounty DownAMES No. 78
RAF KilkennethScotlandArgyll and ButeChain 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
RAF LothScotlandSutherlandChain Home radar station near Helmsdale
RAF Mark's CastleEnglandCornwallCHL17A, near Land's End
RAF MineheadEnglandSomerset
RAF Mormond HillScotland – 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 NavidaleScotlandSutherlandCHL and CHEL Radar Station near Helmsdale
RAF NeedlesEnglandIsle of WightCHL/CD
RAF NefynWalesGwyneddAMES No. 66
RAF NetherbuttonScotlandOrkneyChain Home radar station near Holm
RAF NewchurchEnglandKentCHL/CD
RAF North CairnScotlandDumfriesNear Stranraer – AMES No. 60
RAF North ForelandEnglandKentChain Home Low
RAF NorthamEnglandDevonChain Home Low radar station
RAF Noss HilScotlandShetland IslandsChain Home, AMES No. 54
RAF OrbyEnglandLincolnshireGCI station
RAF Ottercops MossEnglandNorthumberlandnear Otterburn, Northumberland
RAF Oxenhope MoorEnglandYorkshireRadar and GEE site near Halifax
RAF OxwichWalesSouth Glamorgan 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 PevenseyEnglandSussexChain Home radar station
RAF Point of StoerScotlandSutherlandChain Home Low Radar Station
RAF PolingEnglandSussexChain Home Station CH08, CHEL. First Radar Station to have WAAF operators.
RAF Port MorScotlandArgyll and ButeAdvanced Chain Home radar station on Tiree
RAF PortlandEnglandDorsetshire
RAF PrestatynWalesDenbighshire
RAF Rame HeadEnglandCornwallChain Home Low station CHL15A
RAF RavenscarEnglandNorth YorkshireChain Home Low Radar Station, later CEW
RAF RhuddlanWalesDenbighshireAMES No. 65
RAF RingsteadEnglandDorsetshireNATO 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 RyeEnglandKentChain Home radar station – misleadingly located in Brookland, Kent
RAF Saligo BayScotlandArgyll and ButeIslay
RAF SandwichEnglandKent R3 GCI ROTOR near Ash
RAF SangoScotlandSutherlandnear Durness
RAF Saxa VordScotlandShetland Islandsnear Unst
RAF ScarinishScotlandTiree GCI R8 ROTOR Radar Station
RAF ScarlettIsle of Man
RAF SchoolhillScotlandAberdeenshireChain Home station near Portlethen
RAF Seaton SnookEnglandCo. Durham GCI R3 ROTOR Radar Station
RAF SennenEnglandCornwallChain Home Low and GEE Station
RAF SkawScotlandShetland IslandsChain Home and LORAN station near Unst
RAF SouthbourneEnglandDorsetshireChain Home station
RAF ShiptonEnglandYorkshire
RAF ShottonEnglandCounty DurhamChain Home Low station
RAF SkendlebyEnglandLincolnshireChain Home Overseas Low, later Chain Home Extra Low Station CHL34A, then 'UPI' ROTOR R3 GCI
RAF SnaefellIsle of Man CHEL R11 ROTOR Radar Station
RAF SopleyEnglandHampshire
RAF South RonaldsayScotlandOrkneyCHL / CHEL Radar Station ) AMES No. 50A
RAF South StackWalesAnglesey
RAF St Anne'sEnglandLancashireROTOR site near Blackpool
RAF St Bees HeadEnglandCumbriaChain Home Low No. 87A
RAF St CyrusScotlandAberdeenshireCHL/CD Radar Station -AMES No. 45A
RAF St LawrenceEnglandIsle of WightChain Home station
RAF St Margaret's BayEnglandKentROTOR site
RAF St TwynnellsWalesPembrokeshire GCI R6 ROTOR Radar Station
RAF Staxton WoldEnglandYorkshireChain Home station
RAF StenigotEnglandLincolnshirenear Louth, Lincolnshire –, still in use for training aerial erectors.
RAF Stoke Holy CrossEnglandNorfolkChain Home station
RAF Strumble HeadWalesPembrokeshireChain Home Low radar station
RAF Swansea BayWalesGlamorganOperations/plotting Room
RAF Swingate DownEnglandKentCH Low station near Dover. Also called RAF St Margarets
RAF TannachScotlandCaithnessChain Home radar station near Wick
RAF The LawScotlandAngusChain Home Low station near Carnoustie
RAF TrelanveanEnglandCornwallGoonhilly Downs
RAF TreleaverEnglandCornwall
RAF TrerewEnglandCornwallNewquay
RAF Trevose HeadEnglandCornwallChain Home Low
RAF Trewan SandsEnglandCornwall R8 GCI ROTOR Radar Station
RAF TriminghamEnglandNorfolkChain Home Extra Low /CD, then 'QLE' CEW R1 ROTOR Radar Station
RAF Truleigh HillEnglandSussexChain Home Low Station CHL07B later ROTOR R2 bunker near Bramber
RAF UlbsterScotlandCaithnessnear Wick
RAF UxbridgeEnglandGreater LondonNATO ACE High Tropo-scatter site
RAF VentnorEnglandIsle of WightChain Home CH10, CHL M86, ROTOR Station 'OJC'
RAF Walton on NazeEnglandEssexChain Home Low
RAF Warden PointEnglandKentChain Home Low station on the Isle of Sheppey
RAF WartlingEnglandSussex near Bexhill-on-Sea
RAF WatsnessScotlandShetlandChain Home Low station near Walls. AMES No. 55A
RAF WarrenWalesPembrokeshireChain Home station
RAF West BeckhamEnglandNorfolkChain Home Radar station
RAF West PrawleEnglandDevonCH 14/CHL 14A
RAF WestburnScotlandAberdeenshireCD/CHL. AMES No M23
RAF WestcliffEnglandDorsetshirenear Isle of Portland
RAF West MyneEnglandSomerset CHEL R11 ROTOR Radar Station
RAF Whale HeadScotlandOrkney IslandsChain Home AMES No. 51 on Sanday
RAF WhitehawkEnglandSussexChain Home Low and 10 cm Radar Station near Brighton
RAF WhitstableEnglandKentChain Home Low
RAF WickScotlandHighland
RAF Worth MatraversEnglandDorsetshireChain Home and GEE site near Swanage
RAF WylfaWalesIsle of AngleseyAMES No. 76

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Europe

Rest of the World

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

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