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This list of Royal Air Force stations is an overview of all current stations of the Royal Air Force (RAF) throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. This includes front-line and training airbases, support, administrative and training stations with no flying activity, unmanned airfields used for training, intelligence gathering stations and an ...
2,743 metres (8,999 ft) Concrete/ Asphalt. Royal Air Force Lakenheath or RAF Lakenheath ( IATA: LKZ, ICAO: EGUL) is a Royal Air Force station near the village of Lakenheath in Suffolk, England, UK, 4.7 miles (7.6 km) north-east of Mildenhall and 8.3 miles (13.4 km) west of Thetford. The installation's perimeter borders Brandon .
Royal Air Force Chicksandsor more simply RAF Chicksands,was a Royal Air Force station located 7.7 miles (12.4 km) south east of Bedford, Bedfordshireand 11.6 miles (18.7 km) north east of Luton, Bedfordshire. It closed in 1997 when responsibility for the camp was taken over by the British ArmyIntelligence Corps.[2]
Length and surface. 10/28. 2,808 metres (9,213 ft) Concrete / Asphalt. Source: UK MIL AIP Mildenhall [ 2] Royal Air Force Mildenhall, or more simply RAF Mildenhall ( IATA: MHZ, ICAO: EGUN ), is a Royal Air Force station located near Mildenhall in Suffolk, England. Despite its status as a Royal Air Force station, it primarily supports United ...
RAF Menwith Hill. / 54.00806°N 1.69000°W / 54.00806; -1.69000. Royal Air Force Menwith Hill ( RAF Menwith Hill) is a Royal Air Force station near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, which provides communications and intelligence support services to the United Kingdom and the United States. The site contains an extensive satellite ...
The origins of the United States Air Force in the UK can be traced to a series of agreements made between 27 January and 27 March 1941 which provided for American naval, ground and air support for campaigns against Nazi Germany. As a result, a special U.S. Army Observer Group was activated in London on 19 May 1941.
137 metres (449 ft) AMSL. Royal Air Force Croughton or more simply RAF Croughton is a Royal Air Force station which is currently a United States Air Force communications station in Northamptonshire, England. It is southeast of the village of Croughton. The station is home to the 422nd Air Base Group and operates one of Europe's largest military ...
02/20. 998 metres (3,274 ft) Asphalt (WW2) Royal Air Force Greenham Common or more simply RAF Greenham Common is a former Royal Air Force station in the civil parishes of Greenham and Thatcham in the English county of Berkshire. [ 1] The airfield was southeast of Newbury, about 55 miles (89 km) west of London.