Royal Air Force Bodorgan or more simply RAF Bodorgan is a former

Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's air and space force. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the first independent air force in the world, by regrouping the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and ...

satellite airfield located near to

Bodorgan Hall Bodorgan Hall is a country house and estate located in the hamlet of Bodorgan, Anglesey, Wales, situated near the Irish Sea in the southwestern part of the island. The hall is the seat of the Meyricks, and is the largest estate on Anglesey. The ha ...

on the

Isle of Anglesey Anglesey (; cy, (Ynys) Môn ) is an island off the north-west coast of Wales. It forms a principal area known as the Isle of Anglesey, that includes Holy Island across the narrow Cymyran Strait and some islets and skerries. Anglesey island, ...

, Wales. The airfield was opened as RAF Aberffraw on 1 September 1940. Its named was changed to Bodrogan on 15 May 1941 and it was closed on 30 September 1945. Bodorgan initially had one

Blister hangar A blister hangar is a novel arched, portable aircraft hangar designed by notable British airport architect Graham R Dawbarn patented by Miskins and Sons in 1939. Originally made of wooden ribs clad with profiled steel sheets, steel lattice ribs a ...

, with two Bellman hangars added later. Accommodation for personnel was initially in tents, which were replaced by Nissen and Maycrete huts for accommodation, workshops and technical functions. The hangars were dismantled soon after the airfield closed, but some of the huts remain at the site. In 1942 the fields to the east of the airfield were used for the camouflaged storage of up to thirty

Wellington bomber The Vickers Wellington was a British twin-engined, long-range medium bomber. It was designed during the mid-1930s at Brooklands in Weybridge, Surrey. Led by Vickers-Armstrongs' chief designer Rex Pierson; a key feature of the aircraft is its ...

s. The following units were here at some point: * ‘J’ Flight of

No. 1 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit RAF This is a List of Anti-aircraft co-operation units of the Royal Air Force. Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Units * Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Flight RAF (1931–36) became Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit RAF * Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Flight, ...

(1 AACU) became No. 1606 (Anti-Aircraft Co-operation) Flight RAF * ‘Z’ Flight 1 AACU became No. 1620 (Anti-Aircraft Co-operation) Flight RAF * No. 6 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit RAF *

No. 8 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit RAF This is a List of Anti-aircraft co-operation units of the Royal Air Force. Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Units * Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Flight RAF (1931–36) became Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit RAF * Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Flight, ...

* No. 48 Maintenance Unit RAF * No. 577 Squadron RAF *

No. 650 Squadron RAF No. 650 Squadron RAF was an anti aircraft co-operation squadron of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. History No. 650 squadron was formed on 1 December 1943 at RAF Cark, Cumbria, from 'D' Flight of 289 Squadron and 1614 (Anti-A ...

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Bodorgan Bodorgan is a village and community (Wales), community on the Isle of Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom. According to the United Kingdom Census 2001, 2001 Census, there were 1,503 residents in the now former Wards of the United Kingdom, electoral ...

Royal Air Force satellite landing grounds

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