Royal Air Force Station Reykjavik or more simply RAF Reykjavik is a former
Royal Air Force station
The Royal Air Force (RAF) operates several stations throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. This includes front-line and training air bases, support, administrative and training stations with no flying activity, unmanned airfields used fo ...
, at
Reykjavík Airport,
Iceland.
Beginnings
The station was built in 1940 by the
British Army and used by the
Royal Air Force from March 1941 and throughout the remainder of the
Second World War.
Squadrons
After the cessation of hostilities of the Second World War the British Government handed the airfield over to the Icelandic Civil Aviation Authority on 6 July 1946. It is now known as
Reykjavik Airport.
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Airports in Iceland