RAF Kaldadarnes
RAF Kaldadarnes
|
|
|---|---|
| Summary | |
| Airport type | Military |
| Owner | Icelandic Government |
| Operator | Royal Air Force |
| Serves | Reykjavík, Iceland |
| Location | Reykjavík, Iceland |
| Built | 1940 |
| In use | 1941-1945 |
| Coordinates | 63°55′52.33″N 021°10′14.78″W / 63.9312028°N 21.1707722°WCoordinates: 63°55′52.33″N 021°10′14.78″W / 63.9312028°N 21.1707722°W |
| Map | |
 RAF Kaldadarnes
|
|
Royal Air Force Station Kaldadarnes or more simply RAF Kaldadarnes is a former Royal Air Force station, near the city of Reykjavík, Iceland.
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.
On 2 September 1942 the war artist Eric Ravilious was lost after he flew from Kaldadarnes.
After the cessation of hostilities of the Second World War the British Government handed the airfield over to the Icelandic Civil Aviation Authority and was used for a short while until it was closed and is now in ruins.
...
Wikipedia