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Chapter Two
Empire & Commonwealth
Air Force Stations
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Part One Royal Air Force
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Abingdon Acklington Akrotiri Alconbury
1932 - 1992 1938 - 1972 1955 - 1938 - 1994
KEY Top Flag: Location Bottom Flag: Current jurisdiction
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Aldergrove Amman Andover Ascension
1918 - 1922 - 1959 1916 - 1977 1944 -
Emirate of Transjordan
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Bahrain Ballykelly Bassingbourn Bawdsey Bempton
1941 - 1971 1938 - 1969 1946 - 1990
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Benbecula Benson Bentley Priory Bentwaters (Butley under USA)
1941 - 1939 - 1926 - 1944 - 1993
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Bicester Biggin Hill Binbrook Bishops Court
1917 - 1917 - 1940 - 1992 1943 - 1990
Is now an Army base
Now a civilian airfield
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Boscombe Down Boulmer Brampton Brawdy
1917 – 1940 – 1945
1953 - 1942 - 1944 - 1992
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Allied Occupation
Bridgnorth Brize Norton Bruggen Buchan
1940 - 1997 1937 - 1957 - 2001 1953 -
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Burtonwood Butterworth Calshot
1940 - 1984 1950 - 1966 1913 - 1961
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Castle Bromwich Catterick Changi Colerne
1914 - 1946 - 1971 1940 -
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Chivenor Church Fenton Coltishall Coningsby
1940 - 1937 - 1940 - 2006 1940 -
Is now a Royal Marines base
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Cosford Cottesmore Cowden Cranwell
1938 - 1938 - 1939 – 1990s 1916 -
Is now the
Defence College of Aeronautical Engineering
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WWII
Decimomannu Detling Digby Dishforth
1939 – 1990s 1938 - 1959 1918 - 1936 - 1966
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Donna Nook Drem Driffield Duxford
1926 - 1917 - 1946 1936 - 1977 1919 - 1961
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East Fortune Eindhoven El Adem El Hamra – Libya?
1916 - 1961 1944 - 1945 1942 - 1970 1951 – 1955 approx
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RAF Hospital ELY Episkopi Exeter
1939 - 1992 1956 – 1969 ? 1937 – 1995?
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Fairford Feltwell Finningley Fylingdales
1944 - 1937 - 1965 1936 - 1963 -
American Airbase within U.K.
Is now
Robin Hood International Airport
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Allied Occupation
Allied Occupation
Gan Gatow Gaydon Geilenkirchen
1942 – 1976 1945 - 1994 1942 - 1974 1953 - 1968
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Gibraltar Goose Bay Gosport Greenham Common
1915 - 1944 - 1946 1914 - 1956 1942 – 1990?
American Airbase within U.K.
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Allied Occupation
Gutersloh Habbaniya Halton
1948 - 1992 1942 - 1957 1917 -
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Canadian airbase during WWII in the UK
Hartland Point Headley Court Horsham St. Faith
1939 - 1939 - 1940 - 1963
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Hemswell Hendon Henlow Hereford
1937 - 1967 1910 - 1957 1918 - 1940 -
HQ of the SAS
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High Wycombe Holbeach Honington Hooton Park
1948 - 1937 - 1917 - 1957
European Union Strike Command
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Hornchurch (Sutton
Farm) Hullavington Jurby Jurby Head Kai Tak
1928 - 1962 1937 - 1976 1945 – 1993
Now Buckley Barracks
Returned to HK Govt
(When Colony of Hong Kong was still under
British rule)
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Kenley Khormaksar Kinloss Kirton in Lindsey
1917 - 1966 1917 - 1967 1939 - 1940 - 1965
Now used by the Army
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Allied Occupation
Laarbruch Lakenheath Leconfield Leeming Leuchars
1945 - 1999 1941 - 1936 - 1977 1940 - 1918 -
American Airbase within U.K.
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Lichfield Lindholme Linton on Ouse Little Rissington
1940 - 1958 1940 - 1982 1937 - 1938 -
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Allied Occupation
Locking Lossiemouth Lubeck Luqa Lyneham
1939 – 1995? 1939 - 1945 - 1949 1940 - 1979 1940 -
Still under Allied Control
when station closed
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Machrihanish Masirah Medmenham Moreton in Marsh
1942 – 1972? 1941 - 1955
Further details unknown
Further details unknown
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Manston Marham Martlesham Heath Mauripur
1942 - 1989 1915 – 1919
1937 - 1917 - 1963 1943 - 1956
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Middle Wallop Middleton St. George Mildenhall Montrose
1940 - 1957 1941 - 1965 1934 - 1912 - 1950
American Airbase within U.K.
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Moved from Kenya to UK
Mount Batten Muharraq Nairobi (Eastleigh) Neatishead
1917 - 1986 1943 - 1971 1942 - 1964 1941 – 2005 (downgraded)
Original station returned to an
independent Kenya
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Newton Nicosia North Coates North Luffenham
1937 - 1995 1949 - 1982 1935 - 1990 1940 - 1997
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Northolt Oakhanger Odiham
1915 - ? - 2003 1937 -
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Patrington Penang Portreath
1942 - 1953
Further details unknown
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Pembroke Dock Prestwick Pucklechurch Rudloe Manor (Box)
1930 - 1957 1936 - 1966 1939 - 1959 1940 - 1998
American Airbase within U.K.
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Allied Occupation
Rheindahlen Sopley Stafford
1954 – 1996?
Further details unknown
Further details unknown
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Salalah Saxa Vord Scampton Sek Kong
Under Kai Tak authority
1927 - 1943 1957 - 2006 1942 - 1938 - 1997
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Seletar Sharjah Shawbury South Cerney
1942 - 1971 1939 - 1971 1917 – 1920 1938 -
1937 - 1993
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Spadeadam St. Athan St. Eval St. Mawgan
1976 - 1939 - 1939 - 1959 1943 -
Now
Defence Engineering and Repair Agency (DERA)
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Staxton Wold Steamer Point Stradishall Swanton Morley
1939 - 1941 - 1967 1938 - 1970 1940 - 1995
Now a
Radar Reporting Post
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Allied Occupation
Swinderby Syerston Sylt
1940 - 1993 1940 - 1945 - 1961
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Tangmere Turnhouse
1918 - 1970 1916 -
Now Edinburgh Airport
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Tengah Thatcham Thorney Island Topcliffe
1939 - 1971 Closed 2001 1938 - 1975 1940 - 1972
Now Alanbrooke Barracks
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Upavon Upper Heyford Upwood Uxbridge Valley (Wales Valley)
1912 - 1993 1917 – 1920 1927 – 1965
1965 -
1937 - 1959 1918 - 1941 -
American Airbase
within U.K.
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Waddington Wattisham Watton West Drayton
1916 - 1939 - 1993 1939 - 1978 1924 -
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Allied Occupation
West Malling West Raynham Wildenrath Wittering
1940 - 1964 1942 - 1991 1952 - 1992 1916 – 1920
1924 -
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Woodbridge Woodvale Wyton Yatesbury
1943 – 1952 1952 - 1992
1941 - 1916 – 1919 1936 - 1995
1917 - 1969
American Airbase within U.K.
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Wainfleet Wartling West Kirby Wythall
1939 - 1978
Further information unknown
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Further information unknown
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Part Two
Royal Australian Air Force
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Royal Australian Air Force
AMBERLEY DARWIN EAST SALE EDINBURGH LAVERTON PEARCE
RICHMOND TINDAL TOWNSVILLE WAGGA WILLIAMS WILLIAMTOWN
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Part Three
Royal New Zealand Air Force
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Royal New Zealand Air Force
Auckland Ohakea Woodbourne
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Part Four
Indian Air Force
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Indian Air Force
Begumpet Hakimpet Yelahanka
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Part Five Canadian Air Force
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Canadian Air Force
Bagotville Borden Cold Lake Comox
Gander Goose Bay Greenwood Kingston
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Canadian Air Force
Moose Jaw North Bay Shearwater
Trenton Winnipeg