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RAF Balado Bridge (644 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

kilometres) west of Kinross, in central Scotland. It opened in 1942 as a satellite airfield to RAF Grangemouth, and closed in 1957. It has since served as a NATO

RAF Church Fenton (2,157 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

closure, and transfer into the control of RAF Linton on Ouse as a satellite airfield and Enhanced Relief Landing Ground. The gates of the fully independent

Predannack Airfield (1,085 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Kingdom. The runways are operated by the Royal Navy and today it is a satellite airfield and relief landing ground for nearby RNAS Culdrose. The capitulation

RAF Oulton (300 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

operating as a satellite airfield of nearby RAF Horsham St. Faith between July 1940 and September 1942 after which it operated as a satellite airfield of RAF

RAF Hibaldstow (728 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

airfield was built with greater things in mind, but it only became a satellite airfield for RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey in 1941. When the runways were constructed

764 Naval Air Squadron (2,964 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Air Squadron moved to HMS Fulmar, RNAS Lossiemouth, utilising its satellite airfield, HMS Fulmar II, RNAS Milltown, and with it a change to multiple training

RAF Cluntoe (258 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Force Cluntoe or more simply RAF Cluntoe is a former Royal Air Force satellite airfield located 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Ardboe, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland

RAF Westley (243 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

RAF Westley is a former Royal Air Force satellite airfield located to the west of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, between 1938 and 1946. It was established

RAF Castle Combe (210 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Combe or more simply RAF Castle Combe is a former Royal Air Force satellite airfield located 0.5 miles (0.80 km) southeast of Castle Combe, Wiltshire,

Naval Auxiliary Air Station Charlestown (498 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

is located in Charlestown, Rhode Island, United States. It was a satellite airfield to the nearby Quonset Naval Air Station. It is located within the

RAF Great Massingham (327 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

east of King's Lynn, Norfolk, England. The airfield was built as a satellite airfield of RAF West Raynham in 1940 but was upgraded to a parent station on

RAF Shrewton (83 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Shrewton or more simply RAF Shrewton is a former Royal Air Force satellite airfield located in Wiltshire, England. The following units were here at some

Naval Air Station Livermore Outlying Fields (1,377 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

37°46′48″N 121°33′36″W / 37.780°N 121.560°W / 37.780; -121.560. The satellite airfield had a 6,300-foot sod runway. The site closed after the war and is

RAF Maghaberry (170 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Maghaberry, or more simply RAF Maghaberry, is a former Royal Air Force satellite airfield located north of Maghaberry, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The

RAF Elgin (1,252 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

miles) south west of Elgin in Moray, Scotland. It opened in 1940 as a satellite airfield of RAF Lossiemouth and was used throughout the Second World War, predominantly

Minter Army Airfield auxiliary fields (1,705 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

auxiliary fields were: Wasco Auxiliary Field or Wasco Field No. 1 was a satellite airfield of Minter Field, 1.5 miles north the town of Wasco, California, at

Pierce Field (583 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Pierce Field, (Eglin Air Force Base Auxiliary Field #2), is a satellite airfield located northeast of the Main Base, 5.5 miles north-northeast of Valparaiso

List of air stations of the Royal Navy (1,795 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

are centred on two main operating bases (MOBs), each with a nearby satellite airfield: (Bold denotes Royal Navy shore establishment, italics denotes other

RAF Barton Bendish (118 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

World War it was considered important for bomber stations to have a satellite airfield. The only aircraft known to have operated out of Barton Bendish were

Biancur Field (634 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(Eglin Air Force Base Auxiliary Field #6), (FAA LID: FL34), is a satellite airfield located northwest of the Main Base, 5.9 miles north-northeast of Valparaiso

RAF Long Newnton (93 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Newnton or more simply RAF Long Newnton is a former Royal Air Force satellite airfield in north Wiltshire, England, close to the Gloucestershire village

RAF Forres (138 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

by RAF Lossiemouth. The following units were here at some point: Satellite airfield of No. 19 Operational Training Unit RAF (21 January 1941 - 22 October

RAF Bridleway Gate (65 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Gate, or more simply RAF Bridleway Gate, is a former Royal Air Force satellite airfield located in Shropshire. The following units were here at some point:

767 Naval Air Squadron (2,896 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Lossiemouth in 1946 where it provided its training, operating out of the satellite airfield at HMS Fulmar at RNAS Milltown. It then moved to RNAS Yeovilton three

RAF Wanborough (86 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Wanborough or more simply RAF Wanborough is a former Royal Air Force satellite airfield near Swindon, Wiltshire, England. The following units were here at

Epler Field (355 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Epler Field, (Eglin Air Force Base Auxiliary Field #7), is a satellite airfield located west-northwest of the Main Base, 18.2 miles west of Valparaiso

RAF Clyffe Pypard (110 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Pypard or more simply RAF Clyffe Pypard is a former Royal Air Force satellite airfield in Wiltshire, England. No. 29 Elementary Flying Training School RAF

RAF Northleach (536 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

In May 1944 RAF Northleach was re-classified in status as a full satellite airfield but the planned upgrade to add additional hangars and services was

Dandaloo (331 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

During the Second World War, the Royal Australian Air Force built a satellite airfield seventeen kilometres west-north-west of its Elementary Flying Training

RAF Bodorgan (384 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Bodorgan, or more simply RAF Bodorgan, is a former Royal Air Force satellite airfield located near to Bodorgan Hall on the Isle of Anglesey, Wales. The

National Register of Historic Places listings in Fergus County, Montana (345 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Lewistown Satellite Airfield Historic District

Naval Outlying Landing Field Barin (629 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in May 1919. Today, the East Field is still used as NOLF Barin, a satellite airfield for Training Air Wing FIVE (TRAWING 5) at NAS Whiting Field and Training

Sculthorpe Training Area (2,776 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

west-north-west) as the second satellite airfield of RAF West Raynham (itself a few miles to the south), the first satellite airfield being RAF Great Massingham

RAF Sandtoft (244 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Lincolnshire, England. RAF Sandtoft opened in February 1944 as a satellite airfield to RAF Lindholme which was 3 mi (5 km) to the west. No. 1 Group RAF

Bob Kershaw (377 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

land quickly before the overheating engine seized. Frost landed at a satellite airfield near Diredawa, and set his plane on fire to prevent its capture. Kershaw

Peterborough/Sibson Airfield (277 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to farming after the war. Sibson Aerodrome is the only surviving satellite airfield of RAF Peterborough, now Westwood, Cambridgeshire. Civil Aviation

RAAF Gingin (282 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Supplement from Airservices Australia, effective 13 June 2024 "Gingin Satellite Airfield, Western Australia" (PDF). Department of Defence. Australian Government

Troy Municipal Airport (472 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

It was activated on 11 January 1942 as Troy Auxiliary Airfield, a satellite airfield for the United States Army Air Forces Maxwell Field near Montgomery

RNAS Hinstock (HMS Godwit) (1,123 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Hinstock. Upon the admiralty taking control, it was used initially as a satellite airfield for RNAS Stretton (HMS Blackcap). It was commissioned on 14 June 1943

Donnington Airpark (432 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ray Smith in 1969, who intended to develop the 160-acre site as a satellite airfield to Townsville Airport for general aviation users. The Donnington Country

734 Naval Air Squadron (636 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Shropshire, England, however, it operated out of RNAS Hinstock's satellite airfield, RNAS Peplow (HMS Godwit II), also located in Shropshire, which was

RAF Lissett (575 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Originally required as satellite airfield for RAF Catfoss the land was requisitioned in 1940. Although constrained

HMS Nabswick (252 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(MONAB) which was initially at the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) satellite airfield Jervis Bay Airfield situated near Jervis Bay Village, Jervis Bay Territory

RAF Cranwell (1,175 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Air Force stations Cranwell Light Aeroplane Club RAF Harlaxton – satellite airfield of Cranwell during the 1940s and 1950s Pine, L.G. (1983). A dictionary

RAF Thorpe Abbotts (1,023 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

built during 1942 and early 1943 for the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a satellite airfield for RAF Horham but the rapid buildup of the Eighth Air Force resulted

Tattershall Thorpe (633 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Spa, which was in this parish. RAF Woodhall Spa was planned as a satellite airfield to RAF Coningsby. Construction began in 1940, but because of the threat

RAF East Wretham (1,072 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

into service during the early years of the Second World War as a satellite airfield with No. 311 (Czechoslovak) Squadron RAF dispersed there from RAF

RAF Mount Farm (1,050 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of Dorchester, Oxfordshire, England. Mount Farm was originally a satellite airfield for the RAF Photographic Reconnaissance Unit at RAF Benson. The airfield

Marine Corps Auxiliary Landing Field Bogue (1,080 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Marine Corps reopened Bogue (sometime between 1965 and 1976) as a satellite airfield for aircraft & helicopters from MCAS New River & MCAS Cherry Point

Tangmere (1,111 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the first squadron (602) of Supermarine Spitfires was based at the satellite airfield at nearby Westhampnett. The first and worst enemy raid on the station

Wick Airport (1,199 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

RAF Fighter Command and known as Royal Air Force Wick (RAF Wick). A satellite airfield existed at RAF Skitten. On 21 May 1941, a photographic reconnaissance

Naval air station (1,461 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

training facility, and the Fleet Requirements Air Direction Unit. Its satellite airfield is RNAS Predannack. The Italy has three Marina Militare NAS: MARISTAELI

Matlaske (1,143 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Barningham Church. During the summer of 1940 Matlaske became home to a satellite airfield to RAF Coltishall which is located 12 miles (19 km) south east of

Atlantic, North Carolina (464 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Airfields in SE NC (Since World War II MCOLF Atlantic has been a satellite airfield of Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina. Though it

Kingston Bagpuize (870 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir. In the Second World War there was a satellite airfield of RAF Abingdon east of the village called RAF Kingston Bagpuize.

RAF Faldingworth (666 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

entered service life as Toft Grange decoy airfield and later as a satellite airfield of RAF Lindholme. Late in 1943 it became a satellite of RAF Ludford

Ingham, Lincolnshire (561 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

In the Second World War, the village became home to RAF Ingham, a satellite airfield of RAF Hemswell consisting of three grass runways. Three Polish squadrons

RAF Tangmere (4,175 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(No. 602 Squadron RAF) of Supermarine Spitfires was based at the satellite airfield at nearby Westhampnett, as the Battle of Britain began. By now the

RAAF Base Woomera (1,279 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

comply with building code requirements. Evetts Field (AU09) is a satellite airfield located 40 kilometres (25 mi) north-west of the RAAF Base Woomera

No. 485 Squadron RNZAF (5,058 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and its pilot killed. On 1 July, the squadron moved to Redhill, a satellite airfield of Kenley. It took a more permanent role in the offensive against

Cawston, Norfolk (717 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

part of Cawston Parish fell within the grounds of RAF Oulton, a satellite airfield of RAF Horsham St Faith. After the war, most of the airfield was returned

RAF Grimsby (787 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

It became operational in the summer of 1941 and was initially a satellite airfield for nearby RAF Binbrook. The Wellington squadrons based at Binbrook

Wasco Airport (245 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

has one runway. Wasco Auxiliary Field or Wasco Field No. 1 was a satellite airfield of Minter Field, built for World War II pilot training. The Vultee

RAF Bungay (1,431 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

as Royal Naval Air Station Bungay (RNAS Bungay), it was used as a satellite airfield to RNAS Halesworth (HMS Sparrowhawk) under the command of Lieutenant

Lewistown, Montana (2,109 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Boulder, Colorado: Fred Pruett Books. ISBN 978-0962386817. "Lewistown Satellite Airfield Historic District (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved

Yucca Army Airfield (813 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the US Army Air Forces acquired 2,284 acres (9.24 km2) to build a satellite airfield for the use of Kingman AAF and its gunnery school. Activated on 1

Hope Cove (859 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Farm near Malborough and in 1941 RAF Bolt Head opened as a fighter satellite airfield on adjacent land with RAF Exeter as its parent station. Many RAF personnel

758 Naval Air Squadron (1,347 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Instrument Flying Training, until RNAS Hinstock gained RNAS Peplow as a satellite airfield and from 28 February 1945 the squadron then operated from RNAS Peplow

Eshott Airfield (297 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Training on Supermarine Spitfires was carried out there along with a satellite airfield at RAF Boulmer between March 1943 and June 1945, until the unit was

RAF Spilsby (1,207 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to 1943 and opened for action on 20 September 1943 as an overflow satellite airfield to RAF East Kirkby in 5 (Bomber) Group RAF. The first operational

RAF Docking (535 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

station a few miles from Bircham Newton in Norfolk, England. It was a satellite airfield for the RAF Coastal Command station at RAF Bircham Newton and was

Federal Police (Germany) (1,895 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

force's helicopters. These are located in Fuhlendorf (north, with satellite airfield in Gifhorn), Blumberg (east), Fuldatal (centre), Oberschleißheim (south)

Lost Hills Airport (355 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

built as the Lost Hills Auxiliary Field or Lost Hills Field No. 7, a satellite airfield of Minter Field, a US Army World War II pilot training base. In 1942

Bristol Airport (6,703 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

11 June 1941. However, its intended use soon changed into being a satellite airfield for the fighter squadrons based at RAF Colerne. Originally, the new

RAF Keevil (1,289 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the base occasionally. During 1956 and 1957, Keevil was used as a satellite airfield for "ab initio" training by No 2 Flying Training School, based at

RAF Ballykelly (986 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

April 1970) Coastal Command Development Unit RAF (December 1941) Satellite airfield of the Combined Anti-Submarine Tactical School RAF (1943) General

Warton Aerodrome (1,279 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1940 new runways were built at Warton so that it could act as a "satellite" airfield for the RAF Coastal Command station at Squires Gate airfield in Blackpool

No. 3 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF (712 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Haverfordwest, meant 'O' Flight operated out of RAF Haverfordwest’s satellite airfield, RAF Templeton. 'O' Flight of was equipped with fourteen Avro Anson

Malahang (1,305 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

As a result of the Japanese occupation the airfield served as a satellite airfield to the Lae Airfield. The Malahang Gaol in Malahang is where many prisoners

Aiken Air Force Station (1,398 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

constructed. The airfield and station opened on 24 December 1942 as a satellite airfield of Morris Army Airfield, North Carolina.[citation needed] On 23 June

Shellharbour Airport (1,775 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Caldwell, a local resident, received RAAF training at the airfield. A satellite airfield was constructed north of Cordeaux Dam to support operations at Albion

RAF Sedgeford (575 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

RAF Sedgeford was used as an airfield in the First World War, as a satellite airfield (officially called "Night Landing Grounds") of RAF Great Yarmouth

RAF Podington (1,987 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

used by the 301st Bombardment Group, based at RAF Chelveston as a satellite airfield for its Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers. It was quickly found

Aston Down (1,069 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

September 1957 at the airfield. More recently the airfield was used as a satellite airfield for the Central Flying School at RAF Little Rissington, with trainee

Naval Outlying Landing Field Cotati (300 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Touch-and-go landing practice became the primary activity at the Cotati satellite airfield of the Santa Rosa Auxiliary Naval Air Station. Runway damage from

No. 214 Squadron RAF (2,302 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

training unit. The squadron immediately re-positioned to Feltwell's satellite airfield, RAF Methwold, whilst in the process of re-equipping with the Vickers

No. 6 Flying Training School RAF (1,502 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hunting Aircraft Jet Provost T.3 was introduced and RAF Ouston was the satellite airfield.The school was renamed to No. 6 (Advanced) Flying School RAF during

Cockthorpe (545 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Shovell. Between 1940 and 1961, Cockthorpe was host to RAF Langham, a satellite airfield for RAF Bircham Newton operated by RAF Coastal Command. Cockthorpe

RAF Tatenhill (346 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Operational Training Unit RAF (OTU) at RAF Lichfield later becoming a satellite airfield for RAF Wheaton Aston. The design was the wartime RAF standard of

RAF Husbands Bosworth (662 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

RAF Husbands Bosworth came under 92 Group RAF, and was initially a satellite airfield for RAF Market Harborough under the command of the parent Station

RAF Balderton (1,776 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Detachment of No. 14 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit RAF (April 1942) Satellite Airfield of No. 25 Operational Training Unit RAF (June - November 1941) No

Mallacoota, Victoria (1,949 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Mallacoota, and Mallacoota became Mallacoota East (closing in 1940). A satellite airfield was constructed during World War II for the purpose of coastal defence

RAF Snitterfield (539 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

starting on 7 May 1943 at RAF Church Lawford and using Snitterfield as a satellite airfield to disperse the aircraft as Church Lawford was very busy. On 3 April

RAF Boulmer (2,313 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hurricanes, was abandoned. In March 1943 RAF Boulmer was reopened as a satellite airfield to house the advanced flights of No. 57 Operational Training Unit

RNAS Culdrose (HMS Seahawk) (2,357 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Motto: Nostris in Manibus Tuti (Safe in our Hands) RNAS Culdrose has a satellite airfield at Predannack which it uses primarily as a relief landing ground and

Enstone Airfield (559 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

aerodrome opened 15 September 1942 as RAF Enstone. It started life as a satellite airfield for RAF Moreton-in-Marsh, and was used by Vickers Wellingtons of No

RAF Calveley (492 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

accommodate the unit's large number of aircraft, RAF Wrexham served as a satellite airfield. 17 (P)AFU disbanded on 1 February 1944, as part of a shuffle of training

RAF Grangemouth (1,158 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

06/44: No. 58 Operational Training Unit with Spitfires, from 1942 satellite airfield at RAF Balado Bridge. 10/43: No. 58 Operational Training Unit renamed

No. 7 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF (764 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

work to construct facilities at Western Junction was completed. A satellite airfield was also eventually built at Nile, 7.5 miles (12.1 km) from Western

Troy Auxiliary Field (260 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Municipal Airport after the war. Activated on 11 January 1942 as a satellite airfield for the United States Army Air Forces Maxwell Field near Montgomery

RAF Bourn (696 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Bourn Airfield was constructed for RAF Bomber Command in 1940 as a satellite airfield for nearby RAF Oakington. It was used by No. 101 Squadron RAF Vickers

Bourn (2,027 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Bourn Airfield was constructed for RAF Bomber Command in 1940 as a satellite airfield for nearby RAF Oakington. Now the Rural Flying Corps uses part of

RAF Bassingbourn (3,713 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of 54 Wellingtons and 11 Ansons, and used RAF Steeple Morden as a satellite airfield. From December 1941 to February 1942 the OTU operated from Steeple

Goodyear, Arizona (3,345 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

built by the United States Army Air Forces in 1943. It served as a satellite airfield for Luke Army Air Field (AAF). According to the History of Luke AFB

RAF Fighter Command order of battle 1940 (275 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Sector Group Sector station Radio call sign Satellite airfield or airfields A 11 Tangmere SHORTJACK Westhampnett B 11 Kenley TOPHAT Croydon C 11 Biggin

RAF Kirkistown (330 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ballyhalbert opened officially on 28 June 1941 and the Kirkistown satellite airfield opened in July 1941. On 22 January 1942, No. 504 Squadron RAF moved

East Midlands Airport (3,133 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

with three concrete runways, together with two hangars, and was a satellite airfield to RAF Wymeswold, situated some 9 miles (14 km) to the southeast.

Glasgow Valley County Airport (1,322 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

contract by Cape Air. Glasgow Army Air Field, also known as the Glasgow Satellite Airfield, was activated on November 10, 1942. It was one of three satellite

Leeds East Airport (903 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

closure, and transfer into the control of RAF Linton on Ouse as a satellite airfield and Enhanced Relief Landing Ground. The gates of the fully independent

Echeverria Field (733 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

powered flight training, the main runway was extended to 4,500' and a satellite airfield was established for emergencies near Aguila, AZ. The cadets at the

Ramsgate Airport (2,423 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

attacked and the field cratered. With the need for Ramsgate as a satellite airfield diminishing following the end of the battle, the airfield was closed

Fairmont State Airfield (1,004 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

in the construction, the facility was referred to as the Fairmont Satellite Airfield, and was designated a satellite of the Topeka Army Air Base in Kansas

List of former Royal Air Force stations (1,561 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Training Board School RAF Bircotes BH England South Yorkshire 1941 1948 Satellite airfield for RAF Finningley. RAF Bishopbriggs Scotland Dunbartonshire 1939

RAF Wymeswold (1,054 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1944 prior to the D-Day landings. RAF Castle Donington was used as a satellite airfield which post-war has turned into East Midlands Airport. From 1949 it

RAF Long Marston (739 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

which began operating at the field on 15 March 1943, using it as a satellite airfield to RAF Honeybourne. The Whitleys joined the unit after retiring from

No. 7 Flying Training School RAF (1,137 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Advanced Flying Unit RAF with a relief landing ground at Sibson, a satellite airfield at RAF Sutton Bridge and a detachment at RAF Calveley. Their flew

No. 4 Service Flying Training School RAAF (1,523 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

SFTS's Ansons crashed after colliding with trees after takeoff at a satellite airfield on 21 July 1943; one of the injured died later without regaining consciousness

North Auxiliary Airfield (478 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and used by Hughes Aircraft Company for testing, as well as being a satellite airfield of Columbia Army Air Base, supporting B-25 Mitchell medium bomber

Oakley, Buckinghamshire (3,550 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

27 May 1942 RAF Oakley opened and became operational, initially a satellite airfield for RAF Bicester and then in August 1942 as RAF Westcott's satellite

Barnwell Regional Airport (372 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Army Air Forces and opened in May 1943. Barnwell Army Airfield was a satellite airfield of Columbia Army Air Base, supporting B-25 Mitchell medium bomber

Celone/San Nicola d'Arpi Airfield (748 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Celone/San Nicola d'Arpi Airfield Foggia Satellite Airfield #1 Part of Fifteenth Air Force Province of Foggia, Italy Celone/San Nicola d'Arpi Airfield

List of Royal Navy shore establishments (3,793 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Station Culham, Oxfordshire HMS Jackdaw II, Dunino Kingsbarns Fife Satellite airfield of Crail HMS Kestrel, World War II Royal Naval Air Station at Worthy

London Southend Airport (6,929 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

airfield and it was known as RAF Rochford during World War II as a satellite airfield. During World War II, it became a base for fighter squadrons comprising

Blackpool Airport (4,199 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

an operational base on site, and expanded RAF Warton to act as a satellite airfield. The RAF also selected Blackpool as one of its training wings due

Docking, Norfolk (4,394 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Force airfield open from 1940 until 1958. During the war it was a satellite airfield of RAF Coastal Command and home to several Royal Air Force and Royal

Docking, Norfolk (4,394 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Force airfield open from 1940 until 1958. During the war it was a satellite airfield of RAF Coastal Command and home to several Royal Air Force and Royal

Don Charlwood (1,365 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Bomber Command. He had almost 200 hours flying time. At Tatenhill, a satellite airfield of Lichfield, Charlwood, with Pilot Geoff Maddern, crewed up to form

RAF Desford (1,420 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

airport at Braunstone was requisitioned by the military and became a satellite airfield of Desford, with some training taking place there. Apart from the

RAF St Angelo (1,074 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

positions were reversed and St Angelo was designated as a subsidiary satellite airfield for No. 17 Group RAF Coastal Command which had established its headquarters

Bill Crawford-Compton (2,795 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Reserve (RAFVR) and was a probationary pilot officer. Redhill was a satellite airfield to Kenley and the squadron formed part of Kenley Wing, alongside No

Battle of Britain (26,437 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

fighter formations. RAF units from Sector airfields often flew into a satellite airfield for operations during the day, returning to their home airfield in

Victorville Army Airfield auxiliary fields (2,682 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Mirage Auxiliary Airfield. Grey Butte Auxiliary Airfield (No 4) was a satellite airfield built in 1941 for training pilots from Victorville Army Airfield during

Hawker Hurricane (17,925 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

War. That day, "A" Flight of 46 Squadron took off from North Coates satellite airfield, on the Lincolnshire coast, and was directed to intercept a formation

RAF Condover (1,244 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Force as a fighter base, so Condover was instead established as a satellite airfield under RAF Shawbury, also serving as an RLG for RAF Ternhill. Although

RAF Wheaton Aston (1,359 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

completed six months before Hixon was. Instead Wheaton Aston became a satellite airfield of RAF High Ercall under the auspices of the Service Flying Training

RAF Lympne (3,069 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to be the HQ of 51 Wing. During the Battle of Britain Lympne was a satellite airfield for the stations of 11 Group, being used as a forward stage for flights

Freckleton air disaster (6,845 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Lancashire village of Warton. The site was also intended to serve as a satellite airfield for the RAF Coastal Command station, based in Squires Gate, Blackpool

Mobile Naval Air Base (5,133 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

RNAS Lossiemouth while MR 4 was to be installed at Lossiemouth's satellite airfield RNAS Milltown. Lossiemouth was scheduled to be commissioned on 12

RAF East Fortune (3,816 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

World War, the land being requisitioned in June 1940 for use as a satellite airfield for nearby RAF Drem. However, it was subsequently decided to develop

No. 621 Volunteer Gliding Squadron (1,995 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Merryfield and RAF Keevil. 621VGS spent two weekends at RNAS Merryfield (Satellite airfield to RNAS Yeovilton), to assess it's suitability. However, at a public

RAF Lossiemouth (9,744 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

aircraft were stored in fields outside the station. Lossiemouth's first satellite airfield, located at Bogs of Mayne 10 miles (16 km) to the south and known

Iceland Base Command (3,466 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

95861°N 22.54944°W / 63.95861; -22.54944 (Patterson Field) as the satellite airfield to Meeks was soon named. Completed before Meeks became operational

Kawaguchi Detachment (2,915 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and 50 to 60 of its men reached the edge of Henderson's eastern satellite airfield, Fighter One, and overran a unit of engineers there. Ultimately, Kawaguchi's

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issues with the runways at RNAS Nowra meant the temporary use of the satellite airfield at RNAS Jervis Bay in order to permit emergency repairs to be carried

Lakatamia Air Force Base (887 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

166 Maintenance Unit RAF between November 1943 and September 1945 Satellite airfield of No. 79 OTU between October 1944 and July 1945 No. 56 Refuelling

Branse Burbridge (4,366 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

posted to No. 85 Squadron RAF at RAF Hunsdon in October 1941. It was a satellite airfield for RAF North Weald in Essex. The squadron's commander was Peter Townsend

Johnnie Johnson (RAF officer) (8,066 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

began training at weekends at the airfield at Stapleford Tawney, a satellite airfield of RAF North Weald. There he received ground instruction on airmanship

17th Weapons Squadron (4,594 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Pursuit Squadron on 4 March 1924. In May 1924, the group opened a satellite airfield at Oscoda, Michigan to function as an aerial gunnery camp for the

Paddy Finucane (9,595 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to B Flight or Green Section. On 24 July, the squadron moved to a satellite airfield RAF Rochford in Essex. The following day, he became operational. The

Tryggve Gran (6,004 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

fighters. The squadron was stationed at Clairmarais aerodrome (a satellite airfield for RFC Saint-Omer) from 31 August 1917 to 2 February 1918. The CO

John Braham (RAF officer) (8,616 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

frustrated. Now based at RAF Digby in Lincolnshire and operating from the satellite airfield at Wellingore the unit formed part of No. 12 Group RAF defending British

North Western Area Campaign (11,409 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

escorted nine Betty bombers (753rd Kōkūtai) on a raid against the satellite airfield at Coomalie. The 23rd Air Flotilla, with headquarters at Kendari in

Rudolf Resch (4,397 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

following day, the Gruppe was ordered to the airfield named Sjablowo, a satellite airfield near Oryol. On 7 May, large Soviet bomber and ground attack aircraft

Edward L. Feightner (6,052 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

flying the Grumman F6F Hellcat at Naval Auxiliary Air Station Pungo—a satellite airfield near Naval Station Norfolk. This second squadron to be designated

List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft before 1925 (35,302 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

from which he died four days later." In 1923, Corry Field, a new satellite airfield for Naval Air Station Pensacola, is named in his honor. Three U.S

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following this, in March 1948 RNAS Dale (HMS Goldcrest) and it's satellite airfield RNAS Brawdy (HMS Goldcrest II) were placed into Care & Maintenance