RAF Skeabrae
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| RAF Skeabrae | |||||||||||||
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| Dounby, Mainland, Orkney in Scotland | |||||||||||||
| File:Target Dossier for Skeabrae, Orkney, Scotland - DPLA - db8db99e7978cc2617ecf091dbb1025d (page 1).jpg RAF Skeabrae on a target dossier of the German Luftwaffe, 1941 | |||||||||||||
| Site information | |||||||||||||
| Type | Royal Air Force station | ||||||||||||
| Code | KJ[1] | ||||||||||||
| Owner | Air Ministry | ||||||||||||
| Operator | Royal Air Force Royal Navy | ||||||||||||
| Controlled by | RAF Fighter Command Fleet Air Arm | ||||||||||||
| Location | |||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 489: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). | ||||||||||||
| Site history | |||||||||||||
| Built | 1940 | ||||||||||||
| In use | August 1940 - 1957 | ||||||||||||
| Battles/wars | European theatre of World War II | ||||||||||||
| Airfield information | |||||||||||||
| Elevation | 18 metres (59 ft)[1] AMSL | ||||||||||||
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Royal Air Force Skeabrae, or more simply RAF Skeabrae, is a former Royal Air Force station located on Mainland, Orkney, United Kingdom.
History
[edit | edit source]The following units were here at some point:
- Squadrons
- No. 3 Squadron RAF (1941)[2]
- No. 66 Squadron RAF (1943)[3]
- No. 118 Squadron RAF (1944)[4]
- No. 129 Squadron RAF (1943)[5]
- No. 132 Squadron RAF (1942)[5]
- No. 164 Squadron RAF (1942)[6]
- No. 234 Squadron RAF (1943)[7]
- No. 253 Squadron RAF (1941)[8]
- No. 312 (Czechoslovak) Squadron RAF (1943)[9]
- No. 313 Squadron RAF (1944)[9]
- No. 329 Squadron RAF (1945)[10]
- No. 331 Squadron RAF (1941-42)[10]
- No. 441 Squadron RCAF (1944-45)[11]
- No. 451 Squadron RAAF[11]
- No. 453 Squadron RAAF (1943-44)[12]
- No. 598 Squadron RAF[13]
- No. 602 Squadron RAF (1942-43 & 1944)[13]
- No. 603 Squadron RAF[13]
- No. 611 Squadron RAF (1944)[14]
- Units
- Advanced Ship Recognition Flight RAF (January - February 1943) became No. 1476 (Advanced Ship Recognition) Flight RAF (February - June 1943 & June - January 1944)[15]
- No. 1491 (Fighter Gunnery) Flight RAF (November 1942 - August 1943)[16]
- 1841 Naval Air Squadron[17]
- No. 2714 Squadron RAF Regiment[17]
- No. 2745 Squadron RAF Regiment[17]
- No. 2766 Squadron RAF Regiment[17]
- No. 2824 Squadron RAF Regiment[17]
- Royal Navy
Current use
[edit | edit source]The site is currently private agricultural land.[17]
See also
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]Citations
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b Falconer 2012, p. 177.
- ^ Jefford 1988, p. 24.
- ^ Jefford 1988, p. 45.
- ^ Jefford 1988, p. 57.
- ^ a b Jefford 1988, p. 59.
- ^ Jefford 1988, p. 64.
- ^ Jefford 1988, p. 75.
- ^ Jefford 1988, p. 78.
- ^ a b Jefford 1988, p. 86.
- ^ a b Jefford 1988, p. 87.
- ^ a b Jefford 1988, p. 92.
- ^ Jefford 1988, p. 93.
- ^ a b c Jefford 1988, p. 98.
- ^ Jefford 1988, p. 100.
- ^ Sturtivant, Hamlin & Halley 1997, p. 134.
- ^ Sturtivant, Hamlin & Halley 1997, p. 136.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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