Royal Canadian Air Force
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(RCAF), or stations where RCAF units existed, from 1924 until unification into the
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on February 1, 1968.
Some of the RCAF stations listed in this article link to facility descriptions containing the prefix ''"CFB"'' ( Canadian Forces Base) or ''"CFS"'' (Canadian Forces Station). These facilities were at one time RCAF stations, but changed to ''CFBs'' or ''CFSs'' following unification of the Canadian Armed Forces in 1968. Most former RCAF stations still in use by the Canadian Forces are still operated by the RCAF (renamed from Air Command or AIRCOM in 2011, from the use "air element" 1968–2011). During the 1990s, most RCAF squadrons on Canadian Forces Bases were reorganized into "wings" as the primary lodger unit. Consequently, many Canadian Forces Bases used as air force bases are frequently referred to without the prefix CFB, e.g., ''"
CFB Greenwood
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"'' is also referred to as ''"14 Wing Greenwood"'', with 14 Wing being the primary lodger unit at CFB Greenwood.
Before 1968, all RCAF facilities followed the naming tradition of the
Royal Air Force
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, whereby the prefix RCAF (vs. RAF) was affixed.
Operating locations (1924–1939)
Primary Canadian stations
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High River
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British Columbia
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Vancouver
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Winnipeg
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Camp Borden
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Quinte West
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RCAF Station Claresholm
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History World War II
No. 15 Service Flying Training School (SFTS) ...
RCAF Station Edmonton
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RCAF Detachment Edmonton
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RCAF Station Pearce
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RCAF Station Penhold
RCAF Station Penhold was a Second World War British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) station located near Penhold, Alberta, Canada.
History World War II
In 1939, farmland was purchased and land cleared for the future base. In 1940 the bas ...
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RCAF Station Vulcan
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RCAF Station Alliford Bay
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RCAF Station Bella Bella
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RCAF Station Boundary Bay
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RCAF Station Coal Harbour
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RCAF Station Jericho Beach
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RCAF Station Port Hardy
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RCAF Station Sea Island
RCAF Station Sea Island was a World War II, British Commonwealth Air Training Plan station located near Vancouver, British Columbia.
History World War II
No 8 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) formed here on 22 July 1940.
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RCAF Station Tofino
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RCAF Station Gimli
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World War II (1943–1945)
On September 6, 1943, the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan established No. 18 Service Flying Tr ...
Canadian Joint Air Training Command
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RCAF Station Souris
RCAF Station Souris was a Second World War British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) station located near Souris, Manitoba, Canada. It was operated and administered by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF).
History World War II
Souris hosted N ...
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RCAF Station Virden
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RCAF Station Winnipeg
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RCAF Detachment Winnipeg
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RCAF Station Saint John
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RCAF Station Dartmouth
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RCAF Station Greenwood
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RCAF Station Shelburne
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RCAF Station Sydney
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North Sydney, Nova Scotia
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RCAF Detachment Alliston
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RCAF Station Aylmer
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RCAF Station Hamilton
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History World War II
During the Second World War, it was a base for the British Commonwealth Air Training Pla ...
RCAF Station Rockcliffe
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RCAF Station Trenton
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RCAF Station Uplands
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RCAF Station Mount Pleasant
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RCAF Station Bagotville
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RCAF Station Parent
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RCAF Station Gaspé
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RCAF Station Lachine RCAF Station Lachine was a Royal Canadian Air Force station located near Lachine and Dorval, Quebec, Canada, to the west of Montreal. The location of the station was Dorval Airport, which became the Montréal-Dorval International Airport (now Mont ...
RCAF Station Montreal
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RCAF Station St Hubert
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RCAF Station Victoriaville
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RCAF Detachment Montreal
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RCAF Station Moose Jaw
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RCAF Station Mossbank
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RCAF Station Saskatoon
RCAF Station Saskatoon was a World War II British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) base operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). It was located North of the City of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
World War II (1940-5)
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Fort Glenn Army Airfield
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Marks Air Force Base
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RAF Acklington
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RAF Andover
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RAF Balderton
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RAF Bassingbourn
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RAF Beaulieu
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RAF Biggin Hill
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RAF Bircham Newton
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RAF Bradwell Bay
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RAF Burn
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RAF Castle Camps
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RAF Catterick
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Although initially a flying stati ...
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RAF Charmy Down
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RAF Chivenor
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Originally a civil airfield open ...
RAF Colerne
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The site is now known as Azimghur Barracks and ...
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RAF Croft
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RAF Croydon
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RAF Davidstow Moor
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It was used from late 1942 until 1945 and despite a few ...
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RAF Debden
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RAF Digby
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RAF Dishforth
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RAF Docking
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RAF Driffield
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RAF Dunsfold
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RAF East Moor
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The airfield was initially controlled by the Royal Air For ...
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RAF Eastchurch
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RAF Exeter
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RAF Ford
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RAF Gravesend
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RAF Harrowbeer
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RAF Hawkinge
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RAF Headcorn
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RAF Holmsley South
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RAF Hornchurch
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RAF Hurn
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RAF Kenley
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RAF Lashenden
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RAF Leeming
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RAF Lindholme
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RAF Linton-on-Ouse
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RAF Lympne
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RAF Manston
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RAF Merston
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History
RAF Merston was built In May 1941, as a grass airfield satellite to the neighbouring RAF Tangmere. The si ...
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RAF Middle Wallop
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RAF Mildenhall
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RAF Molesworth
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RAF North Coates
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RAF North Luffenham
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RAF North Weald
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RAF Odiham
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RAF Old Sarum
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RAF Penshurst
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RAF Perranporth
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History
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RAF Pocklington
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RAF Portreath
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RAF Predannack
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RAF Redhill
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RAF Skipton-on-Swale
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RAF St Eval
Royal Air Force St. Eval or RAF St. Eval was a Royal Air Force station for the RAF Coastal Command, southwest of Padstow in Cornwall, England, UK. St Eval's primary role was to provide anti-submarine and anti-shipping patrols off the south wes ...
RAF Syerston
Royal Air Force Station Syerston, commonly known as merely RAF Syerston , is a Royal Air Force station in the parish of Flintham, near Newark, Nottinghamshire. Opened in 1940, it was used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a bomber base during t ...
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RAF Tangmere
RAF Tangmere was a Royal Air Force station located in Tangmere, England, famous for its role in the Battle of Britain, and one of several stations near Chichester, West Sussex. The famous Second World War aces Wing Commander Douglas Bader, a ...
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RAF Topcliffe
Royal Air Force Topcliffe or RAF Topcliffe is a Royal Air Force station in North Yorkshire, England.
It was established as a RAF Bomber Command station in 1940. The British Army took over a large part of the site in 1974 and the airfield beca ...
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RAF Tempsford
RAF Tempsford is a former Royal Air Force station located north east of Sandy, Bedfordshire, England and south of St. Neots, Cambridgeshire, England.
As part of the Royal Air Force Special Duty Service, the airfield was perhaps the most ...
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RAF Ternhill
Royal Air Force Tern Hill or RAF Tern Hill was a Royal Air Force station at Ternhill in Shropshire, England, near the towns of Newport and Market Drayton.
The station closed in 1976, with the technical and administrative site transferring t ...
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RAF Tholthorpe
RAF Tholthorpe was a Royal Air Force air station operated by RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War. The station, which had been opened in the late 1930s as a grass airfield, was located near Easingwold, North Yorkshire, UK. Tholthorpe ...
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RAF Thorney Island
Royal Air Force Thorney Island or more simply RAF Thorney Island is a former Royal Air Force station located on Thorney Island, West Sussex, England, west of Chichester and east of Portsmouth, Hampshire.
Station history
The airfield was bu ...
RAF Waddington
Royal Air Force Waddington otherwise known as RAF Waddington is a Royal Air Force (RAF) station located beside the village of Waddington, south of Lincoln, Lincolnshire in England.
The station is the RAF's Intelligence Surveillance Target ...
RAF Wellingore
Royal Air Force Wellingore or more simply RAF Wellingore is a former Royal Air Force fighter relief landing ground located south of Navenby, Lincolnshire and south of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.
History
The airfield was originally opened ...
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RAF West Malling
Royal Air Force West Malling or RAF West Malling is a former Royal Air Force station located south of West Malling, Kent and west of Maidstone, Kent, England.
Originally used as a landing area during the First World War,RAF Westhampnett
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RAF Weston Zoyland
RAF Westonzoyland is one of the country's oldest airfields being established in the early 1920s. Somerset, England. The airfield is located approximately east-southeast of Bridgwater; about west-southwest of London.
It was opened in 1925 ...
RAF Wittering
Royal Air Force Wittering or more simply RAF Wittering is a Royal Air Force station within the unitary authority area of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire and the unitary authority area of North Northamptonshire. Although Stamford in Lincolnshire i ...
RAF Woodchurch
Royal Air Force Woodchurch or more simply RAF Woodchurch is a former Royal Air Force Advanced Landing Ground located in Kent, England. The airfield is located approximately west of Ashford; about southeast of London.
Opened in 1943, Woo ...
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RAF Zeals
Royal Air Force Zeals or more simply RAF Zeals is a former Royal Air Force station in Wiltshire, sited to the north of the village of Zeals, next to the village of Stourton and the Stourhead estate.
History
The station was in operation fro ...
Northern Ireland
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RAF Castle Archdale
Royal Air Force Castle Archdale or more simply RAF Castle Archdale, also known for a while as RAF Lough Erne is a former Royal Air Force station used by the RAF and the Royal Canadian Air Force station in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
His ...
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RAF Limavady
Royal Air Force Limavady or more simply RAF Limavady is a former Royal Air Force station, also known as Aghanloo airfield, near the city of Derry, Northern Ireland.
History
The station was built in 1940 during the Second World War. The airfiel ...
Scotland
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RAF Ayr
RAF Heathfield, sometimes known as RAF Ayr/Heathfield due to its proximity to Glasgow Prestwick Airport, which was also used by military flights, is a former Royal Air Force station.
Like many other wartime airfields, its runways were of the t ...
RAF Castletown
Royal Air Force Castletown or more simply RAF Castletown is a former Royal Air Force station that operated during the Second World War. Built near to Castletown in Caithness, Scotland the station opened in 1940 and closed in 1945. Initially bu ...
RAF Dundonald
Royal Air Force Dundonald or more simply RAF Dundonald is a former Royal Air Force station located in South Ayrshire, Scotland, three miles north-east from the coastal town of Troon.
During its brief existence during the Second World War the ai ...
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RAF Dyce
Aberdeen International Airport ( gd, Port-adhair Eadar-nàiseanta Obar Dheathain) is an international airport, located in the Dyce suburb of Aberdeen, Scotland, approximately northwest of Aberdeen city centre. A total of just under 3.1&nbs ...
RAF Oban
RAF Oban is a former Royal Air Force (RAF) flying boat base located at the northern end of the island of Kerrera, in Ardantrive Bay west of Oban, Argyll and Bute, Scotland during the Second World War.
History
Oban was surveyed by the RAF in th ...
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RAF Peterhead
Royal Air Force Peterhead or more simply RAF Peterhead is a former Royal Air Force sector station located east of Longside, Aberdeenshire and west of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
History
The airfield was built in 1941 and disbanded in ...
RAF Skeabrae
Royal Air Force Skeabrae or more simply RAF Skeabrae is a former Royal Air Force station located in Orkney, Mainland, United Kingdom.
History
The following units were here at some point:
;Squadrons
;Units
* Advanced Ship Recognition Flight R ...
RAF Stranraer
Royal Air Force Wig Bay or more simply RAF Wig Bay is a former Royal Air Force station near Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway
Dumfries and Galloway ( sco, Dumfries an Gallowa; gd, Dùn Phrìs is Gall-Ghaidhealaibh) is one of 32 unitary coun ...
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RAF Sullom Voe
Royal Air Force Sullom Voe or more simply RAF Sullom Voe is a former Royal Air Force station near the village of Brae, in the Shetland Isles of Scotland. It was a Flying boat base and was closely associated with the adjacent airfield of RAF ...
RAF Tain
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RAF Wick
Wick most often refers to:
* Capillary action ("wicking")
** Candle wick, the cord used in a candle or oil lamp
** Solder wick, a copper-braided wire used to desolder electronic contacts
Wick or WICK may also refer to:
Places and placenames ...
Wales
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RAF Angle
Royal Air Force Angle, or more simply RAF Angle, is a former Royal Air Force station located on the Angle Peninsula Coast, west of Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales. It was operational from 1 June 1941 to 11 July 1946, having been used by both th ...
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RAF Fairwood Common
Royal Air Force Fairwood Common or more simply RAF Fairwood Common is a former Royal Air Force Sector station located at Fairwood Common on the Gower Peninsula to the west of Swansea. It is now the location of Swansea Airport.
History
RAF Fa ...
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RAF Valley
Royal Air Force Valley or more simply RAF Valley ( cy, Llu Awyr Brenhinol Y Fali) is a Royal Air Force station on the island of Anglesey, Wales, and which is also used as Anglesey Airport. It provides both basic and advanced fast-jet training ...
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RAF Pembroke Dock
Royal Air Force Pembroke Dock or more simply RAF Pembroke Dock was a Royal Air Force Seaplane and Flying Boat station located at Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales. The Royal Navy contingent left in 1926 with the Royal Air Force occupying the ...
Base Y-75 Frankfurt
Y-75 Frankfurt airfield was a German military airport. It was where No. 665 Squadron RCAF maintained one aircraft section from May to July, 1945.
History
Initially assigned to A-620 Reims, France, 'Irwin' section, 'B' Flight, No. 665 Squadron ...
Iceland
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Reykjavík
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ALG Breda
ALG may refer to:
Airfields
* Advanced Landing Ground, temporary airfields created by the Allies in World War II
** ALG Wormhout, the Advanced Landing Ground home base of 'B' Flight, 665 (AOP) Squadron RCAF, near Dunkirk, France
* Houari Boumedie ...
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ALG Nijmegen
ALG may refer to:
Airfields
* Advanced Landing Ground, temporary airfields created by the Allies in World War II
** ALG Wormhout, the Advanced Landing Ground home base of 'B' Flight, 665 (AOP) Squadron RCAF, near Dunkirk, France
* Houari Boumedi ...
Oslo, Norway
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Southern Europe and Mediterranean Sea operating locations
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Gibraltar
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Malta
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Fano
Fano is a town and ''comune'' of the province of Pesaro and Urbino in the Marche region of Italy. It is a beach resort southeast of Pesaro, located where the '' Via Flaminia'' reaches the Adriatic Sea. It is the third city in the region by po ...
Grottaglie
Grottaglie (; scn, label=Salentino, li Vurtàgghie; la, Criptalium) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Taranto, Apulia, in southern Italy.
Geography
Grottaglie is located in the Salento peninsula, dividing the Adriatic sea from Ionian ...
Perugia
Perugia (, , ; lat, Perusia) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber, and of the province of Perugia.
The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and pa ...
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Treviso
Treviso ( , ; vec, Trevixo) is a city and '' comune'' in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 84,669 inhabitants (as of September 2017). Some 3,000 live within the Ven ...
Venafro
Venafro (Latin: ''Venafrum''; Greek: ) is a ''comune'' in the province of Isernia, region of Molise, Italy. It has a population of 11,079, having expanded quickly in the post-war period.
Geography
Situated at the foot of Mount Santa Croce, elevat ...
Bahrain
Bahrain ( ; ; ar, البحرين, al-Bahrayn, locally ), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, ' is an island country in Western Asia. It is situated on the Persian Gulf, and comprises a small archipelago made up of 50 natural islands and an ...
Mombasa, Kenya
Mombasa ( ; ) is a coastal city in southeastern Kenya along the Indian Ocean. It was the first capital of the British East Africa, before Nairobi was elevated to capital city status. It now serves as the capital of Mombasa County. The town is ...
Operating locations (1946–1968)
Primary Canadian stations
Alberta
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RCAF Station Cold Lake
Canadian Forces Base Cold Lake , abbreviated as CFB Cold Lake, is a Canadian Forces Base in the City of Cold Lake, Alberta.
The facility is operated as an air force base by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and is approximately south of the ...
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RCAF Station Penhold
RCAF Station Penhold was a Second World War British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) station located near Penhold, Alberta, Canada.
History World War II
In 1939, farmland was purchased and land cleared for the future base. In 1940 the bas ...
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RCAF Station Edmonton
Edmonton City Centre Airport (ECCA), also called Blatchford Field as well as Edmonton Municipal Airport, was an airport within the city of Edmonton, in Alberta, Canada.
It was bordered by Yellowhead Trail to the north, Kingsway to the south, ...
RCAF Station Winnipeg
Canadian Forces Base Winnipeg , (CFB Winnipeg) is a Royal Canadian Air Force base located within the City of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Co-located at the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport, CFB Winnipeg is home to many flight opera ...
RCAF Station Greenwood
Canadian Forces Base Greenwood , or CFB Greenwood, is a Canadian Forces Base located east of Greenwood, Nova Scotia. It is primarily operated as an air force base by the Royal Canadian Air Force and is one of two bases in the country using the ...
RCAF Station Trenton
Canadian Forces Base Trenton (also CFB Trenton), formerly RCAF Station Trenton, is a Canadian Forces base located within the city of Quinte West, Ontario. It is operated as an air force base by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and is the hu ...
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RCAF Station Uplands
The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF; french: Aviation royale canadienne, ARC) is the air and space force of Canada. Its role is to "provide the Canadian Forces with relevant, responsive and effective airpower". The RCAF is one of three environme ...
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RCAF Station Rockcliffe
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RCAF Station Bagotville
Canadian Forces Base Bagotville , commonly referred to as CFB Bagotville, and also known as Bagotville Airport or Saguenay-Bagotville Airport, is a Canadian Forces base located west of Bagotville in the city of Saguenay. Located in the centre ...
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RCAF Station St Hubert
Canadian Forces Base St. Hubert was a Canadian Forces Base in the city of Saint-Hubert, Quebec. The base began as a civilian airfield in the 1920s and was later also used by RCAF auxiliary (reserve) squadrons, beginning in the mid-1930s. It becam ...
RCAF Station Moose Jaw
Canadian Forces Base Moose Jaw , also known as 15 Wing Moose Jaw, is a Canadian Forces base located south of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. It is operated as an air force base by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and is home to RCAF Pilot traini ...
Auxiliary Canadian stations
Alberta
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RCAF Station Namao
CFB Edmonton (also called 3rd Canadian Division Support Base Edmonton) is a Canadian Forces base located in Sturgeon County adjacent to the City of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada. It is also known as Edmonton Garrison or "Steele Barracks".
Hist ...
Canadian Joint Air Training Command
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(CJATC) New Sarum
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RCAF Station Gimli
RCAF Station Gimli was an air station of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) located near Gimli, Manitoba, Canada.
World War II (1943–1945)
On September 6, 1943, the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan established No. 18 Service Flying Tr ...
RCAF Station Dorval RCAF Station Lachine was a Royal Canadian Air Force station located near Lachine and Dorval, Quebec, Canada, to the west of Montreal. The location of the station was Dorval Airport, which became the Montréal-Dorval International Airport (now Mont ...
Port Hardy
Port Hardy is a district municipality in British Columbia, Canada located on the north-east end of Vancouver Island. Port Hardy has a population of 4,132 as of the last census (2016).
It is the gateway to Cape Scott Provincial Park, the North ...
Tofino
Tofino ( ) is a town of approximately 2,516 residents on the west coast of Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The District of Tofino is located at the western terminus of Highway 4 on the tip of the Esowista Peninsu ...
Timmins
Timmins ( ) is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada, located on the Mattagami River. The city is the fourth-largest city in the Northeastern Ontario region with a population of 41,145 (2021). The city's economy is based on natural resource ext ...
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Wiarton
Wiarton () is a community in the town of South Bruce Peninsula, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada. It is located at the western end of Colpoys Bay, an inlet off Georgian Bay, on the Bruce Peninsula.
Wiarton is notable for the Wiarton Willie Festiva ...
L'Ancienne-Lorette
L'Ancienne-Lorette is a city in central Quebec, Canada. It is a suburb of and an enclave within Quebec City. It was merged with Quebec City on January 1, 2002 as part of a 2000–2006 municipal reorganization in Quebec, but, after a 2004 refere ...
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La Tuque
La Tuque (; ) is a city located in north-central Quebec, Canada, on the Saint-Maurice River, between Trois-Rivières and Chambord. The population was 11,227 at the Canada 2011 Census, most of which live within the urban area. At over 28,000 ...
Val-d'Or
Val-d'Or (, , ; "Golden Valley" or "Valley of Gold") is a city in Quebec, Canada with a population of 32,752 inhabitants according to the Canada 2021 Census. The city is located in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region near La Vérendrye Wildlife ...
Shingle Point
Shingle may refer to:
Construction
*Roof shingles or wall shingles, including:
**Wood shingle
***Shake (shingle), a wooden shingle that is split from a bolt, with a more rustic appearance than a sawed shingle
***Quercus imbricaria, or shingle oak ...
Tuktoyaktuk
Tuktoyaktuk , or ''Tuktuyaaqtuuq'' (Inuvialuktun: ''it looks like a caribou''), is an Inuvialuit hamlet located in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada, at the northern terminus of the Inuvik–Tuktoyaktuk Highway.Montgomer ...
Byron Bay
Byron Bay (Minjungbal: ''Cavvanbah)'' is a beachside town located in the far-northeastern corner of the state of New South Wales, Australia on Bundjalung Country. It is located north of Sydney and south of Brisbane. Cape Byron, a headla ...
Pelly Bay
Pelly Bay is an Arctic waterway in Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in the Gulf of Boothia. To the east, it is bounded by the Simpson Peninsula. Helen Island lies in the bay. Pelly Bay is named after Sir John Pelly, governor of th ...
Bray Island
Bray Island is one of the Canadian Arctic islands located in Nunavut, Canada along the southern coast of Baffin Island. It is located in Foxe Basin
Foxe Basin is a shallow oceanic basin north of Hudson Bay, in Nunavut, Canada, located be ...
Durban Island
Aggijjat (Inuktitut syllabics: ''ᐊᒡᒋᔾᔭᑦ'') formerly Durban Island is a Arctic Archipelago, Canadian Arctic island located in Nunavut, Canada. It is one of Baffin Island's northeast offshore islands within Davis Strait's Merchants Bay. ...
RCAF Station Cold Lake
Canadian Forces Base Cold Lake , abbreviated as CFB Cold Lake, is a Canadian Forces Base in the City of Cold Lake, Alberta.
The facility is operated as an air force base by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and is approximately south of the ...
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RCAF Station Penhold
RCAF Station Penhold was a Second World War British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) station located near Penhold, Alberta, Canada.
History World War II
In 1939, farmland was purchased and land cleared for the future base. In 1940 the bas ...
RCAF Station Tofino
RCAF Station Tofino (ADC ID: C-36) was a World War II, Second World War and Cold War, Royal Canadian Air Force, Radar station located in British Columbia. It was located southeast of Tofino, British Columbia, Tofino, British Columbia, Canada.
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RCAF Station Gypsumville
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Cape Makkovik Air Station
Cape Makkovik Air Station (ADC ID: N-28A) was a General Surveillance Gap Filler Radar station in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, It was located north-northeast of CFB Goose Bay. It was closed in 1961.
History
The site w ...
Fox Harbour Air Station
Fox Harbour Air Station (ADC ID: N-27C) was a General Surveillance Gap Filler Radar station in St. Lewis in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, It was located southeast of CFB Goose Bay. It was closed in 1961.
History
The s ...
La Scie Air Station
La Scie Air Station (ADC ID: N-26B) was a General Surveillance Gap Filler Radar station in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, It was located east-northeast of St.John's, Near La Scie. It was closed in 1961.
History
The ...
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Melville Air Station
Melville Air Station (ADC ID: N-24) was a United States general surveillance radar stations, General Surveillance Radar station. It was located on the summit of Dome Mountain, west of CFB Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador. It was closed i ...
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Red Cliff Air Station
Red Cliff Air Station (Also known as St. Johns) (ID: N-22, C-22) was a General Surveillance Radar station. The remains of which are located north-northeast of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It was closed in 1961.
History ...
Spotted Island Air Station
Spotted Island Air Station (ADC ID: N-27B) was a General Surveillance Gap Filler Radar station in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, It was located east of CFB Goose Bay. It was closed in 1961.
History
The site was establish ...
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Stephenville Air Station
Stephenville Air Station (ADC ID: N-23) is a closed General Surveillance Radar station. It is located north-northwest of Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It was closed in 1971.
History
The site was established in 1951 as a Ge ...
Nova Scotia
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RCAF Station Beaverbank
RCAF Station Beaver Bank was a long-range Pinetree Line early warning radar station operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force, located in central Nova Scotia near the community of Beaver Bank. The site is now known as Beaver Bank Villa.
Base hist ...
RCAF Station Sydney
Canadian Forces Station Sydney, also known as CFS Sydney, is a former Canadian Forces Station located in the community of Lingan Road, Nova Scotia, Lingan Road, Nova Scotia.
It was operational as a Pinetree Line radar station from April 1954 to J ...
RCAF Station Pagwa
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RCAF Station Mont Apica
Canadian Forces Station Mont Apica (CFS Mont Apica) was a radar station of the Pinetree Line, located in Mont-Apica, Quebec, Canada, during the Cold War. The station opened as RCAF Station Mont Apica in 1952 and had a staff of some 500 persons at ...
RCAF Station Parent
RCAF Station Parent was a Canadian early warning radar station and formed part of the Pinetree Line air defence network. Ground was broken in 1951, and by 1954 the station was operational. 14 Aircraft Control & Warning (AC&W) Squadron was the lod ...
RAF Odiham
RAF Odiham is a Royal Air Force station situated a little to the south of the village of Odiham in Hampshire, England. It is the home of the Royal Air Force's heavy lift helicopter, the Chinook, and of the King’s Helicopter Flight (TKHF) . ...
France
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RCAF Station Marville RCAF Station Marville (also known as 1(F) Wing or 1 Wing) was a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) station located near Marville in the Meuse department, Lorraine, northeastern France. It was one of four RCAF wings consisting of three fighter squadr ...
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RCAF Station Grostenquin
RCAF Station Grostenquin, also known as 2 (Fighter) Wing or 2 Wing, was a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) station located five km north of the town of Grostenquin in the Moselle department, Lorraine, northeastern France. It was one of four RCAF wi ...
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RCAF Metz, France
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RCAF Station Zweibrücken
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Canada
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