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#298965 - 06/24/06 06:25 AM Re: RAF Bases *** [Re: Bell_84]
Analogman Offline
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Registered: 06/23/06
Posts: 165
Loc: Northamptonshire, UK
I don't know how to add a bookmark to your dataset but I know of four RAF bases you missed.

1) RAF Alconbury - 55 22 31N, 000 13 20W. The runway is still there, but inactive. The rest of the base is used by the Americans and is open for business.

2) RAF Molesworth - 52 22 60N, 000 24 59W. Home to the 303rd BG in WWII, runways long gone, empty GLCM facility still there. It is now the home to the U.S. Joint Analysis Center.

3) RAF Upwood - 52 26 11N, 000 07 47W. A former RAF Lancaster base now used by the USAF to host a medical clinic and storage. The runways are, obviously, inactive.

4) RAF Feltwell - 52 28 52N, 000 31 18E. No runways any more, just three really big "golf ball" antenna domes, baseball diamonds, and wharehouses storing furniture.

In each of the above cases the RAF still owns the bases and the base commander is an RAF officer. The U.S. forces are merely tennants of Her Majesty.
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#298966 - 07/01/06 11:30 AM Re: RAF Bases [Re: Bell_84]
nicked999 Offline
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Registered: 07/01/06
Posts: 3
There are still a couple outstanding :
RAF St Eval - still used as a listening post and is a sub unit of RAF St Mawgan (my last unit)
RAF Brawdy - was a UK air defence taring unit with Hawk ADV and search and rescue, also house US Navy post as part of SOSUS Line so i was told.NW of Haverford West.
RAF Lanbedr - still used as a drone launch base for fighter training.Just north of Barmouth on coast.
RAF Chilmark - used to be the Balloon unit for the parachute training and now used as a large storage unit. It's somewhere off the A303 near Salisbury.

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#298967 - 07/09/06 05:01 AM Re: RAF Bases [Re: Bell_84]
marbiol Offline
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Registered: 07/09/06
Posts: 1
RAF Bampton Castle / RAF Abingdon is now an army base called Dalton Barracks...

I used to live overlooking the base when it was still RAF and the Red Arrows used to train there so we'd get free airshows...

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#298968 - 07/14/06 11:59 AM Re: RAF Bases [Re: ronburns]
Dark113 Offline
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Registered: 03/23/06
Posts: 7
Moast airfealds are desanated as emergensey airfealds bouth civilion and mill
a point in fact filton in Bristol was desanated as a secondery airfeald (in desert sheald and the present conflict) for the B 52's becouse of its longer runway of 8038 feet ( it was extended for the brabazon in the 1940's) and its promixcimity to fairford just a lil way up the Moterway

i do beleve please some one corect me if i am rong but it also is a emergensey runway for the shuttel program as is heathrow and gatwick

there has been severial instences in the past where small light planes have got in trubble and had to land at a RAF base

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#298969 - 01/28/07 11:57 AM Correction [Re: Bell_84]
Elan_Remford Offline
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Registered: 05/12/05
Posts: 73
The RAF base at Menwith HIll, in your description, is listed as the largest SIGINT facility in the world. This is not correct. It is, however, the largest outside the U.S. and a funamental station of the ECHELON program.

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#298970 - 01/29/07 04:09 AM Re: RAF Bases [Re: Bell_84]
sprout1151 Offline
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Registered: 11/25/06
Posts: 208
Loc: rutland,uk
i've added RAF Bentwaters to the location markers as you can still get on the airfield and look around but permission is req,the airfeild is used mainly for sheep grazing
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