RAF Wyton
RAF Wyton
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| Near St Ives, Cambridgeshire in England | |||||||||
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 EGUY
Shown within Cambridgeshire
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| Coordinates | 52°21′26″N 000°06′28″W / 52.35722°N 0.10778°WCoordinates: 52°21′26″N 000°06′28″W / 52.35722°N 0.10778°W | ||||||||
| Type | Royal Air Force station | ||||||||
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| Owner | Ministry of Defence | ||||||||
| Operator | Royal Air Force | ||||||||
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| Built | 1915 | ||||||||
| In use | 1916-Present | ||||||||
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| Identifiers | IATA: QUY, ICAO: EGUY | ||||||||
| Elevation | 41 metres (135 ft) AMSL | ||||||||
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Royal Air Force Wyton or more simply RAF Wyton (IATA: QUY, ICAO: EGUY) is a Royal Air Force station near St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, England.
In terms of organisation RAF Wyton was part of the combined station RAF Brampton Wyton Henlow, a merger of Wyton with two previously separate bases, RAF Brampton and RAF Henlow. Wyton is the largest of the three. It is home to Equipment Support (Air) and Corporate Technical Services. The airfield is now decommissioned but was used for flight training by 57(R) Squadron EFT, the University Air Squadrons of London and Cambridge and No. 5 Air Experience Flight.
Wyton has been a military airfield since 1916, when it was used for training by the Royal Flying Corps and then its successor the Royal Air Force (RAF).
The following squadrons were posted to Wyton between 1916 and 1935:
In 1935, it was upgraded to contemporary standards.
The following squadrons were posted to Wyton between 1935 and 1939:
During the Second World War it was used primarily as a bomber base, flying Bristol Blenheim, de Havilland Mosquito and Avro Lancaster aircraft. In 1942 it became the home of the Pathfinder Force under the command of Group Captain Don Bennett.
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