RAF Stations (past and Present) - Biggest, Best and Bonnieist??
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Largest: Lyneham '68-71'; 24 and 36 Sqn (C130), 99 and 511 Sqn (Britannias), 216 Sqn (Comet). Plus detachments of the Brize wing before the hugemungus hangars were built; i.e.10 Sqn (VC 10), 53 Sqn (Belfast). Commanded by an Air Commodore (Larry Lamb). Gp Capt Admin once told me that the station was the 4th largest town in Wiltshire at the time.
Best: Bruggen 85-97. Fan-bloody tastic. Probably the most professional RAF station ever. Taceval one's across the board every time; even the USAF, BAF, DAF and GAF admitted that we were the best.
Most Fun: Bruggen (close second Waddington 74-80-4 Vulcan Sqn's).
Worst: High Wycombe-a record that it is unlikely to give up.
Quaintest: Woodvale before the new mess was built.
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Best: Bruggen 85-97. Fan-bloody tastic. Probably the most professional RAF station ever. Taceval one's across the board every time; even the USAF, BAF, DAF and GAF admitted that we were the best.
Most Fun: Bruggen (close second Waddington 74-80-4 Vulcan Sqn's).
Worst: High Wycombe-a record that it is unlikely to give up.
Quaintest: Woodvale before the new mess was built.
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Best - Brize in the early days of the VC10K or Sunny Scampton in the late 1970s. Closely followed by Wittering, Abingdon and Chivenor.
Bonniest - Brawdy in the Summer of '76!
Worst - Honington after the Summer of '76. OM accommodation was in horrible little 'Orlit' huts for OCU students, whilst bean-stealers lived in the main Mess. Station was run by a tyrant; the OCU graduated about 33% of its students yet flew 100% of its hours. As an example of the way the staff treated the students, a notice once went up on the board stating:
"Ladies' Guest Night places are limited. The following priority will therefore apply:
1. Those who didn't go last time.
2. Those who did go last time.
3. Others.
4. Students."
Honington. Awful b£oody place and I was glad to see the back of it.
Bonniest - Brawdy in the Summer of '76!
Worst - Honington after the Summer of '76. OM accommodation was in horrible little 'Orlit' huts for OCU students, whilst bean-stealers lived in the main Mess. Station was run by a tyrant; the OCU graduated about 33% of its students yet flew 100% of its hours. As an example of the way the staff treated the students, a notice once went up on the board stating:
"Ladies' Guest Night places are limited. The following priority will therefore apply:
1. Those who didn't go last time.
2. Those who did go last time.
3. Others.
4. Students."
Honington. Awful b£oody place and I was glad to see the back of it.
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The most enjoyable: Bruggen and / or Gutersloh ....happy memories of both
Best in the UK: St Mawgan, Colt and Abingdon
Worst: Brawdy and St Athan.....ok, the first is in a nice area, but other than that and like Saints, it was an unadulterated s£$thole.
The "one that got away"... Tern Hill...only ever passed though the place sadly, but always struck me as being a nice, casual sort of place in a nice location.
The quaintest...RAF Grantown -on- Spey...where I lay the blame entirely for forcing me to become acquainted with delights of a single malt...thankfully !.
Best in the UK: St Mawgan, Colt and Abingdon
Worst: Brawdy and St Athan.....ok, the first is in a nice area, but other than that and like Saints, it was an unadulterated s£$thole.
The "one that got away"... Tern Hill...only ever passed though the place sadly, but always struck me as being a nice, casual sort of place in a nice location.
The quaintest...RAF Grantown -on- Spey...where I lay the blame entirely for forcing me to become acquainted with delights of a single malt...thankfully !.
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Best: Finningley late 80's till closure - Doncaster fighting order on a Thursday in Seventh Heaven!!! 50p with your F1250 and always wearing an aircrew watch
Busiest: Aldergrove in the early 90's. 230 still in RAFG. 72 Sqn:- 26 Wessex, 3 Puma and a Chinook on the pan. 9 Tasking lines a day plus 813 standby and training. The street, Swift Retreat, Rugby Club and Ally Pally on a Friday - plus the 'Crumlin Commandos'
Worst: Brize Norton - what a sh
hole!
Busiest: Aldergrove in the early 90's. 230 still in RAFG. 72 Sqn:- 26 Wessex, 3 Puma and a Chinook on the pan. 9 Tasking lines a day plus 813 standby and training. The street, Swift Retreat, Rugby Club and Ally Pally on a Friday - plus the 'Crumlin Commandos'
Worst: Brize Norton - what a sh
hole!
I'd have to admit that Brize is looking very scruffy and run down these days. Nothing like what it was in its heyday. But that's the effect of underfunding and woefully inadequate defence budgets.
When, for example, the Officers' Mess was strictly for officers...
I'd forgotten Valley! Thoroughly enjoyed my Gnat, Hunter and Hawk times there. People rarely went away at weekends, well, not much further than Bangor as the roads were so congested and the only route off the island was over the old Menai bridge, then through Bangor and along single carriageways all the way to England... And Hunter Beach on a summer's morning was superb!
When, for example, the Officers' Mess was strictly for officers...
I'd forgotten Valley! Thoroughly enjoyed my Gnat, Hunter and Hawk times there. People rarely went away at weekends, well, not much further than Bangor as the roads were so congested and the only route off the island was over the old Menai bridge, then through Bangor and along single carriageways all the way to England... And Hunter Beach on a summer's morning was superb!
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
Best? 280 SU at Oly in the mid 70s, we used to pity those down in the heat at Akrotiri and Episkopi.
Cool in the summer, skiing in the winter and everyone down at the bottom of the mountain clamouring to come to the weekend long gluwein parties with the saucepan of wine and eau de vie bubbling away on the bar.
All the VC-10 crews used to book their rooms and a party on the radio on their way in because we didn't split the crews and let the whole crew come along..
Cool in the summer, skiing in the winter and everyone down at the bottom of the mountain clamouring to come to the weekend long gluwein parties with the saucepan of wine and eau de vie bubbling away on the bar.
All the VC-10 crews used to book their rooms and a party on the radio on their way in because we didn't split the crews and let the whole crew come along..
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May I offer the following:
Most quaint: RAF Hartland Point (accom in local pub)
Most interesting: RAF Ajax Bay (accom in refridgeration plant and who remembers "Smokers' Rock"?)
Most memorable: RAF Buchan (between builds, accom in portakabins)
Most Forgettable: RAF Neatishead (flat and boring)
The One That Got Away: RAF Ash (ah, but what it could have been)
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Most quaint: RAF Hartland Point (accom in local pub)
Most interesting: RAF Ajax Bay (accom in refridgeration plant and who remembers "Smokers' Rock"?)
Most memorable: RAF Buchan (between builds, accom in portakabins)
Most Forgettable: RAF Neatishead (flat and boring)
The One That Got Away: RAF Ash (ah, but what it could have been)
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Cant believe no one has mentioned Gatow yet as one of the best, its certainly top for me out of 10 postings in 22 years service. Where else could you get a free bus from the main gate into the centre of one Europes most vibrant cities?
High Wycome and Honington would be at bottom, but honourable mentions for Bruggen as the biggest, Ash the smallest and Belize the most fun!
High Wycome and Honington would be at bottom, but honourable mentions for Bruggen as the biggest, Ash the smallest and Belize the most fun!
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RAF Stanley wasn't that bad either. The need to scrounge and barter to get running water and decent grub made life more interesting and even life on the coastel had its' moments - shame it was condemned as a prison ship.
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Friendliest - Shawbury before students became so keen to study.
Biggest - either Spade or one of the megaliths in the Middle East
Most professional - any of the RAFG places in the 80s.
Bonniest - Biggin Hill
Biggest - either Spade or one of the megaliths in the Middle East
Most professional - any of the RAFG places in the 80s.
Bonniest - Biggin Hill
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Now; and once upon a time. 
Current Royal Air Force Stations
England
Bedfordshire
RAF Henlow - now part of the combined RAF Brampton Wyton Henlow
Berkshire
RAF Welford
RAF Woodley
Buckinghamshire
RAF Halton
RAF High Wycombe
Cambridgeshire
RAF Brampton - now part of the combined RAF Brampton Wyton Henlow
RAF Wittering
RAF Wyton - now part of the combined RAF Brampton Wyton Henlow
Cornwall
RAF St. Mawgan
RRH Portreath
Cumbria
RAF Spadeadam
Devon
RAF Chivenor - now Royal Marines Base Chivenor
RAF Hartland Point (RADAR Station)
Gloucestershire
RAF Fairford
RAF Innsworth
Hampshire
Defence CBRN Centre, Winterbourne Gunner (managed by Strike Command)
RAF Oakhanger
RAF Odiham
Lincolnshire
RAF Barkston Heath
RAF Cranwell - home to the RAF College Cranwell
RAF Digby
RAF Coningsby
RAF Donna Nook
RAF Holbeach
RAF Scampton
RAF Waddington
RAF Wainfleet
RAF Woodhall Spa
London
RAF Bentley Priory
RAF Northolt
Northwood Headquarters
RAF Uxbridge
RAF West Drayton
Merseyside
RAF Woodvale
Norfolk
RAF Feltwell
RAF Marham
RAF Neatishead
RAF Trimingham
Northamptonshire
RAF Croughton
Northumberland
RAF Boulmer
Nottinghamshire
RAF Syerston
Oxfordshire
RAF Bampton Castle
RAF Barford St John
RAF Benson
RAF Brize Norton
RAF Weston-on-the-Green
Rutland
RAF Cottesmore
Shropshire
RAF Cosford
RAF Shawbury
RAF Ternhill
Staffordshire
RAF Stafford - now called MoD Stafford
Suffolk
RAF Honington
RAF Lakenheath - occupied by the United States Air Force
RAF Mildenhall - occupied by the United States Air Force
RAF Wattisham - now known as "Wattisham Airfield [1] used by a number of units, including the British Army (AAC Wattisham)
Surrey
RAF Headley Court - the Defence Medical Services (DMS) Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC)[2]
Wiltshire
RAF Boscombe Down - now called MoD Boscombe Down
RAF Lyneham
RAF Rudloe Manor
East Riding of Yorkshire
RAF Holmpton
RAF Leconfield
North Yorkshire
RAF Church Fenton
RAF Dishforth - also used by the British Army (AAC Dishforth)
RAF Fylingdales
RAF Leeming
RAF Menwith Hill
RAF Staxton Wold
RAF Topcliffe
RAF Linton-on-Ouse
Scotland
RRH Benbecula
RAF Buchan
RAF Kinloss
RAF Leuchars
RAF Lossiemouth
RAF Prestwick
RAF Spadeadam
RAF Tain
Wales
RAF Mona
RAF Saint Athan (South Glamorgan)
RAF Valley (Anglesey)
RAF Pembrey Sands
RAF Sealand
Northern Ireland
RAF Aldergrove - also used by the British Army (AAC Aldergrove)
Overseas
Ascension Island
RAF Ascension Island
Cyprus
RAF Akrotiri
RAF Troodos
Falkland Islands
RAF Mount Pleasant
Germany
RAF Nordhorn
Gibraltar
RAF Gibraltar
Qatar
RAF Al Udeid
Former Royal Air Force Stations.
England
Bedfordshire
RAF Bedford (RAE Bedford) - now Bedford Autodrome
RAF Cardington
RAF Chicksands
RAF Cranfield
RAF Gransden Lodge
RAF Podington
RAF Stanbridge - now part of the combined RAF Brampton Wyton Henlow
RAF Tempsford
RAF Thurleigh
RAF Twinwood Farm
Berkshire
RAF Aldermaston
RAF Greenham Common
RAF Grove
RAF Hampstead Norris
RAF Membury
RAF White Waltham - now White Waltham Airfield
Buckinghamshire
RAF Booker (High Wycombe) - now Wycombe Air Park
RAF Daws Hill
RAF Denham
RAF Finmere
RAF Oakley
RAF Thame
RAF Westcott
RAF Wing
Cambridgeshire
RAF Alconbury
RAF Bassingbourn
RAF Bottisham
RAF Bourn
RAF Duxford - now Imperial War Museum Duxford
RAF Fowlmere
RAF Glatton
RAF Kings Cliffe
RAF Little Staughton
RAF Mepal - now Mepal Airfield
RAF Oakington
RAF Snailwell
RAF Steeple Morden
RAF Upwood
RAF Warboys
RAF Waterbeach
RAF Witchford
RAF Wratting Common
Cheshire
RAF Burtonwood
RAF Calveley
RAF Hack Green
RAF Handforth
RAF Hooton Park
RAF Ringway - now Manchester Airport
RAF Wilmslow
Cornwall
RAF Cleave (GCHQ CSO Morwenstow)
RAF Davidstow Moor
RAF Perranporth
RAF Portreath
RAF Sennen/RAF Skewjack
RAF St Eval
RAF St Mawgan / RAF Trebelzue
RAF Treleaver
Cumberland
RAF Crosby-on-Eden
RAF Kirkbride
RAF Millom
Cumbria
RAF Carlisle (RAF Kingstown)
Derbyshire
RAF Ashbourne
Devon
RAF Babbacombe
RAF Dunkeswell
RAF Exeter - now Exeter International Airport
RAF Harrowbeer
RAF Mount Batten
RAF Winkleigh
Dorset
RAF Brandy Bay
RAF Christchurch
RAF Hurn - now Bournemouth International Airport
RAF Tarrant Rushton
RAF Warmwell
County Durham
RAF Croft - now Croft Circuit
RAF Greatham
RAF Middleton St. George
RAF Usworth
Essex
RAF Andrews Field
RAF Birch
RAF Boxted
RAF Bradwell Bay
RAF Chigwell
RAF Chipping Ongar
RAF Debden
RAF Earls Colne - now Earls Colne Airfield
RAF Fairlop
RAF Gosfield
RAF Great Dunmow
RAF Great Sampford
RAF Hornchurch
RAF Little Walden
RAF Matching
RAF North Weald - now North Weald Airfield
RAF Ridgewell
RAF Rivenhall
RAF Rochford - now London Southend Airport
RAF Stansted Mountfitchet - now London Stansted Airport
RAF Stapleford Tawney
RAF Wethersfield
RAF Wormingford
Gloucestershire
RAF Aston Down
RAF Babdown Farm (Relief Landing Ground - RLG)
RAF Bickmarsh
RAF Boddington
RAF Down Ampney
RAF Filton
RAF Honeybourne
RAF Kemble
RAF Little Rissington
RAF Long Marston
RAF Moreton-in-Marsh
RAF Northleach
RAF Pucklechurch
RAF Quedgeley
RAF South Cerney
RAF Southrop
RAF Staverton
RAF Stoke Orchard
Hampshire
RAF Andover
RAF Bisterne
RAF Beaulieu
RAF Blackbushe
RAF Calshot
RAF Eastleigh - renamed RAF Southampton
RAF Farnborough
RAF Flowerdown
RAF Gosport
RAF Hamble
RAF Hartford Bridge
RAF Holmsley South
RAF Hythe
RAF Ibsley
RAF Lasham - now Lasham Airfield
RAF Lee-on-Solent
RAF Middle Wallop - now used by the British Army, AAC Middle Wallop
RAF Sopley
RAF Southampton - formerly called RAF Eastleigh
RAF Stoney Cross
RAF Thorney Island
RAF Thruxton - now Thruxton Motor Racing Circuit
RAF Ventnor (Isle of Wight)
RAF Worthy Down
Herefordshire
RAF Hereford - now occupied by the British Army (AAC Hereford)
RAF Madley
Hertfordshire
RAF Bovingdon
RAF Chenies
RAF Hatfield
RAF Hunsdon
Huntingdonshire
RAF Graveley
RAF Kimbolton
RAF Molesworth
Kent
RAF Ash
RAF Biggin Hill (covered London area) - now Biggin Hill Airport
RAF Detling
RAF Eastchurch
RAF Gravesend
RAF Hawkinge
RAF Headcorn
RAF Lympne
RAF Manston - now Kent International Airport
RAF Sandwich
RAF West Malling
Lancashire
RAF Barton Hall
RAF Kirkham
RAF Longley Lane
RAF Padgate
RAF Salmesbury
RAF Speke
RAF Warton - now Warton Aerodrome
RAF Weeton
RAF Warrington
Leicestershire
RAF Bitteswell
RAF Bottesford
RAF Bruntingthorpe - now Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome and Proving Ground
RAF Castle Donington - now East Midlands Airport
RAF Desford
RAF Husbands Bosworth
RAF Leicester East - now Leicester Airport
RAF Loughborough
RAF Market Harborough
RAF Melton Mowbray
RAF Nuneaton
RAF Ratcliffe
RAF Rearsby
RAF Saltby
RAF Woolfox Lodge
RAF Wymeswold
Lincolnshire
RAF Bardney
RAF Blyton
RAF Coleby Grange
RAF Digby
RAF Dunholme Lodge
RAF East Kirkby
RAF Elsham Wolds
RAF Faldingworth
RAF Fiskerton
RAF Folkingham
RAF Fulbeck
RAF Goxhill
RAF Grimsby (aka RAF Waltham)
RAF Hemswell
RAF Ingham
RAF Kelstern
RAF Kirmington
RAF Kirton in Lindsey
RAF Ludford Magna
RAF Manby
RAF Metheringham
RAF North Coates
RAF North Killingholme
RAF North Witham
RAF Skellingthorpe
RAF Skendleby
RAF Spilsby
RAF Spittlegate
RAF Stenigot
RAF Strubby
RAF Sturgate
RAF Sutton Bridge
RAF Swinderby
RAF Wickenby
London
RAF Regents Park
Middlesex
RAF Hendon
RAF Heston
RAF Stanmore Park
Norfolk
Further information: Norfolk airfields
RAF Attlebridge
RAF Bacton - First World War "Landing Ground"
RAF Barton Bendish - Second World War Landing Ground
RAF Bircham Newton - technical site now the Construction Industry Training Board School
RAF Bodney
RAF Burgh Castle - First World War Landing Ground
RAF Bylaugh Hall - Second World War Landing Ground
RAF Coltishall - now "MoD Coltishall", awaiting formal disposal
RAF Deopham Green
RAF Docking
RAF Downham Market
RAF East Wretham
RAF Feltwell
RAF Fersfield
RAF Foulsham
RAF Great Massingham
RAF Great Yarmouth - First World War
RAF Hardwick
RAF Harling Road - First World War
RAF Hethel - now owned by Lotus Cars
RAF Hingham - First World War "Landing Ground"
RAF Holt - First World War "Landing Ground"
RAF Horsham St Faith - airfield site now Norwich International Airport
RAF Langham
RAF Little Snoring
RAF Ludham
RAF Matlaske
RAF Mattishall - First World War
RAF Methwold
RAF Mousehold Heath - 1914 under RFC, became first Norwich Airport in 1933
RAF Narborough
RAF North Creake
RAF North Pickenham
RAF Old Buckenham
RAF Oulton
RAF Pulham - used for the development of British airships between the wars.
RAF Rackheath
RAF Sculthorpe
RAF Sedgeford
RAF Seething
RAF Shipdham
RAF Snetterton Heath - airfield now Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit
RAF Swannington
RAF Swanton Morley
RAF Thetford
RAF Thorpe Abbotts
RAF Tibenham
RAF Watton
RAF Wendling
RAF West Raynham
RAF Weybourne
Northamptonshire
RAF Chelveston
RAF Deenethorpe
RAF Desborough
RAF Grafton Underwood
RAF Harrington
RAF Hinton-in-the-Hedges
RAF Polebrook
RAF Silverstone - now Silverstone International Motor Racing Circuit
RAF Sywell
Northumberland
RAF Acklington
RAF Brunton
RAF Eshott
RAF Milfield
RAF Ouston
RAF Tranwell
RAF Winfield
RAF Woolsington
Nottinghamshire
RAF Gamston
RAF Hucknall
RAF Langar
RAF Misson
RAF Newton
RAF Watnall
RAF Wigsley
RAF Winthorpe
RAF Worksop
Oxfordshire
RAF Abingdon
RAF Akeman Street
RAF Bicester - now Bicester Airfield
RAF Broadwell
RAF Culham
RAF Edgehill - now Shenington Gliding Club
RAF Enstone - now Enstone Airfield
RAF Harwell
RAF Kidlington - now Oxford Airport
RAF Mount Farm
RAF Upper Heyford
Rutland
RAF North Luffenham
Shropshire
RAF Atcham
RAF Bratton
RAF Bridgnorth
RAF High Ercall
RAF Sleap - now Sleap Airfield
RAF Tilstock
Somerset
RAF Culmhead
RAF Locking
RAF Lulsgate Bottom
RAF Merryfield
RAF Rudloe Manor
RAF West Myne
RAF Weston Zoyland
RAF Whitchurch
Staffordshire
RAF Abbots Bromley
RAF Fauld - see RAF Fauld Explosion
RAF Hednesford
RAF Hixon
RAF Lichfield
RAF Stafford
Suffolk
RAF Barnham
RAF Bawdsey
RAF Beccles
RAF Bentwaters - now Bentwaters Parks, home to Bentwaters Cold War Museum
RAF Bungay
RAF Bury St. Edmunds
RAF Debach
RAF Eye
RAF Felixstowe
RAF Framlingham
RAF Great Ashfield
RAF Halesworth
RAF Hopton
RAF Horham
RAF Knettishall
RAF Lavenham
RAF Leiston
RAF Martlesham Heath
RAF Mendlesham
RAF Metfeld
RAF Newmarket
RAF Rattlesden
RAF Raydon
RAF Shepherds Grove
RAF Stradishall
RAF Sudbury
RAF Tuddenham
RAF Woodbridge - now called Rock Barracks, occupied by the British Army's 23 Engineer Regiment (Air Assault Brigade)
Surrey
RAF Croydon - now Croydon Airport
RAF Dunsfold - now Dunsfold Aerodrome, and Top Gear studio and race track
RAF Gatwick - now London Gatwick Airport (formerley Surrey, now West Sussex)
RAF Hanworth
RAF Horne
RAF Kenley
RAF Redhill - now Redhill Aerodrome
East Sussex
RAF Beachy Head
RAF Friston
RAF Newhaven
RAF Pevensey
RAF Rye
RAF Wartling
West Sussex
RAF Ford
RAF Tangmere
RAF Westhampnett - now Chichester/Goodwood Airport
Warwickshire
RAF Ansty
RAF Baginton - now Coventry Airport
RAF Bramcote
RAF Church Lawford
RAF Elmdon
RAF Gaydon - now home to the Heritage Motor Centre
RAF Honiley
RAF Wellesbourne Mountford
Wiltshire
RAF Blakehill Farm
RAF Castle Combe - now Castle Combe Circuit
RAF Cherhill
RAF Chilmark
RAF Clyffe Pypard
RAF Colerne
RAF Compton Basset
RAF Cricklade (Radar site)
RAF Hullavington
RAF Keevil
RAF Melksham
RAF Netheravon - now occupied by the British Army, (AAC Netheravon)
RAF Upavon - now called Trenchard Lines, occupied by the British Army
RAF Watchfield
RAF Wroughton - now a depository of the National Museum of Science and Industry
RAF Yatesbury
RAF Zeals
Worcestershire
RAF Defford
RAF Pershore
RAF Worcester
Yorkshire
RAF Bawtry
RAF Bempton N.Yorks
RAF Bircotes
RAF Breighton E.Yorks
RAF Burn
RAF Carnaby
RAF Catterick
RAF Catfoss
RAF Cowden E.Yorks
RAF Croft
RAF Dalton
RAF Danby Beacon N.Yorks
RAF Doncaster - formerly RFC Doncaster (1914) Royal Flying Corps
RAF Driffield E.Yorks
RAF East Moor
RAF Elvington
RAF Finningley - now Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield
RAF Full Sutton N.Yorks
RAF Goldsborough N.Yorks
RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor
RAF Hutton Cranswick
RAF Lindholme (aka RAF Hatfield Woodhouse)
RAF Lissett
RAF Marston Moor
RAF Melbourne
RAF Norton
RAF Patrington
RAF Sandtoft
RAF Scorton N.Yorks
RAF Seaton Snook N.Yorks
RAF Skipton-on-Swale
RAF Snaith
RAF Tholthorpe N.Yorks
RAF Thornaby N.Yorks
RAF Wombleton
RAF Yeadon - now Leeds Bradford International Airport
Scotland
RAF Abbotsinch
RAF Aird Uig (Lewis)
RAF Ayr (Ayrshire)
RAF Balado Bridge (Kinross)
RAF Banff (Aberdeenshire)
RAF Benbecula (Benbecula)
RAF Dalcross
RAF Dallachy
RAF Drem
RAF Dronehill (Berwickshire)
RAF Dumfries
RAF Dyce (Aberdeenshire)
RAF Dundonald (Ayrshire)
RAF East Fortune (East Lothian)
RAF Errol (Perth and Kinross)
RAF Edzell (Angus)
RAF Evanton (Ross and Cromarty)
RAF Faraid Head (Highland)
RAF Findo Gask (Perth and Kinross)
RAF Fraseburgh Aberdeenshire
RAF Fullarton (Ayrshire)
RAF Gailes (Ayrshire)
RAF Grangemouth (Falkirk)
RAF Grimsetter Orkneys
RAF Hatston Orkneys
RAF Heathfield (Ayrshire)
RAF Inverness
RAF Kilchiaran (Isle of Islay)
RAF Kirknewton (West Lothian)
RAF Machrihanish (Argyll & Bute)
RAF Macmerry (East Lothian)
RAF Milltown Moray
RAF Montrose (Angus)
RAF Pitreavie Castle (Fife)
RAF Prestwick (Ayrshire)
RAF Saxa Vord (Shetland)
RAF Scarnish (Argyll & Bute)
RAF Scatsta (Shetland)
RAF Skitten
RAF Stornoway (Lewis)
RAF Sullom Voe (Shetland)
RAF Sumburgh (Shetland)
RAF Tealing
RAF Tiree
RAF Turnberry (Ayrshire)
RAF Turnhouse (City of Edinburgh)
RAF West Freugh (Wigtownshire)
RAF Wick (Caithness)
Wales
RAF Angle Pembrokshire
RAF Brawdy (Pembrokeshire)
RAF Caerwent (Monmouthshire)
RAF Fairwood Common Glamorgan
RAF Haverfordwest Pembrokeshire
RAF Hawarden Flintshire
RAF Holyhead
RAF Llanbedr
RAF Llandow
RAF Manorbier Pembrokeshire
RAF Pembrey (Carmarthenshire)
RAF Prestatyn (Denbighshire)
RAF Sealand (Flintshire sometime Clwyd)
RAF Stormy Down
RAF Talbenny
RAF Towyn
RAF Wrexham
Northern Ireland
RAF Sandy Bay
County Antrim
RAF Langford Lodge
RAF Long Kesh
RAF Maghaberry
RAF Murlough
RAF Nutts Corner
RAF Toome
County Down
RAF Ballyhalbert
RAF Belfast
RAF Bishops Court
RAF Greencastle
RAF Kirkistown
RAF Newtownards, Newtownards
RAF Sydenham
County Fermanagh
RAF Castle Archdale
RAF Killadeas
RAF St Angelo
County Londonderry
RAF Ballykelly
RAF Eglinton - now City of Derry Airport, Derry
RAF Limavady
RAF Maydown
RAF Mullaghmore
County Tyrone
RAF Cluntoe, Ardboe
Isle of Man
RAF Andreas
RAF Jurby
RAF Jurby Head
RAF Ronaldsway (HMS Urley, RNAS Ronaldsway)
Hall Caine Airport
Ireland (now Republic of Ireland)
RAF Baldonnel (County Dublin)
Overseas.
Aden (now Yemen)
RAF Khormaksar - now Aden International Airport
RAF Steamer Point
RAF Hospital Steamer Point
RAF Hospital Khormaksar Beach
Algeria
RAF Maison Blanche
Azores (Portugal)
RAF Lagens
Bahrain
RAF Muharraq
Belgium
RAF Ursel
Belize
RAF Belize
Bermuda
RAF Darrell's Island
RAF ATC/USAAF Fort Bell
Borneo
RAF Labuan
RAF Tawau
Sarawak
RAF Kuching
Burma (now Myanmar)
RAF Hmawbi
RAF Meiktilla
RAF Mingaladon
RAF Pegu
Canada
RAFU Goose Bay
Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
All former RAF bases in Ceylon were transferred to the respective Government upon independence from British Empire. Many are now used by the Sri Lanka Air Force, see also List of Sri Lankan air force bases
RAF China Bay - now SLAF China Bay
RAF Colombo - now Colombo Racecourse Airstrip
RAF Kankesanturai
RAF Katunayake was RAF Negombo
RAF Koggala - now SLAF Koggala
RAF Negombo - now Bandaranaike International Airport
RAF Ratmalana - now SLAF Ratmalana
RAF Shigiriya - now SLAF Shigiriya
RAF Sigiriya
RAF Trincomalee
RAF Vavuniya
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
RAF Cocos Islands
Cyprus
RAF Episkopi
RAF Nicosia
Egypt
RAF Abu Sueir
RAF Abu Sultan
RAF Almaza
RAF Amriya
RAF Cairo West
RAF Deversoir
RAF El Ballah
RAF El Hamra
RAF Fayid
RAF Gianaclis
RAF Heliopolis
RAF Helwan
RAF Ismailia
RAF Kabrit
RAF Kasfareet
RAF Shallufa
Faroe Islands
RAF Vaagar
France
RAF Istres
Germany
RAF Ahlhorn
RAF Blankensee
RAF Bruggen - now a British Army Garrison, called "Elmpt Station, Javelin Barracks"
RAF Buckeburg
RAF Butzweilerhof
RAF Celle
RAF Fassberg
RAF Fuhlsbüttel
RAF Gatow
RAF Geilenkirchen
RAF Goch
RAF Gütersloh - now a British Army Garrison, called "Princess Royal Barracks, Gütersloh", (AAC Gütersloh)
RAF Hambuhren
RAF Hehn
RAF Hustedt
RAF Husum - a remote radar station on the coast near Husum, Schleswig-Holstein
RAF Jever
RAF Laarbruch
RAF Lubeck
RAF Luneberg
RAF Oldenburg
RAF Plantlünne
RAF Rheindahlen - now occupied by the British Army, as HQ United Kingdom Support Command (Germany) (HQ UKSC(G))
RAF Schleswigland
RAF Sundern
RAF Sylt
RAF Uetersen
RAF Wahn
RAF Hospital Wegberg - now occupied by the British Army, as HQ British Forces Germany Health Service (BFGHS)
RAF Wildenrath
RAF Winterberg
RAF Wunstorf
Gold Coast (now Ghana)
RAF Takoradi
Hong Kong
RAF Little Sai Wan
RAF Kai Tak
RAF Sek Kong
Iceland
RAF Kaldadarnes
India
RAF Agra - now Agra Air Force Station, Uttar Pradesh
RAF Alipore
RAF Allahabad - now Bamrauli Air Force Station, Uttar Pradesh
RAF Amarda Road
RAF Ambala - now Ambala Air Force Station, Haryana
RAF Agartala - now Agartala Air Force Station, Tripura
RAF Arkonam
RAF Asansol
RAF Bangalore (aka RAF Yelahanka) - now Yelahanka Air Force Station, Bangalore, Karnataka
RAF Barrackpore - now Barrackpore Air Force Station, West Bengal
RAF Bhopal
RAF Car Nicobar - now Car Nicobar Air Force Station, Nicobar Islands, Indian Union Territory
RAF Chakeri - now Chakeri Air Force Station, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
RAF Cholovaram
RAF Delhi
RAF Dhubalia
RAF Digri
RAF Dum Dum - now Dum Dum Air Force Station, Calcutta, West Bengal
RAF Hakimpet - now Hakimpet Air Force Station, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
RAF Imphal
RAF Jessore
RAF Jodhpur - now Jodhpur Air Force Station, Rajasthan
RAF Kalyan
RAF Kanchrapara
RAF Kohat
RAF Kolar
RAF Lahore
RAF Maharajpur - now Maharajpur Air Force Station, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
RAF Palam
RAF Poona - now Pune-Lohegaon Air Force Station, Maharashtra
RAF Secunderbad
RAF Srinagar - now Srinagar Air Force Station, Jammu & Kashmir
RAF Tambaram - now Tambaram Air Force Station, Tamil Nadu
RAF Vizagapatam
Pakistan
RAF Chaklala - now Islamabad International Airport and Pakistan Air Force Base Chaklala
RAF Jiwani - now Jiwani Airport
RAF Karachi - now Pakistan Air Force Base Faisal
RAF Mauripur (used after partition by RAF) - now Pakistan Air Force Base Masroor
RAF Peshawar - now Pakistan Air Force Base Peshawar
RAF Quetta - now Pakistan Air Force Base Samungli
RAF Risalpur - now Pakistan Air Force Base Risalpur
RAF Sargodha (??? Sargodha#Origin of name) - now Pakistan Air Force Base Mushaf
Iraq
RAF Basrah
RAF Dhibban (renamed RAF Habbaniya in 1938)
RAF Hinaidi
RAF Shaibah
Italy
RAF Cagliari, Sardinia
RAF Decimomannu, Sardinia
RAF El Mas, Sardinia
Japan
RAF Iwakuni
Jordan
RAF Mafraq
Kenya
RAF Eastleigh
RAF Kisumu
RAF Mombasa
RAF Nairobi
RAF Thika
Libya
RAF Benina
RAF Castel Benito
RAF El Adem
RAF Idris
British Malaya (now Malaysia)
RAF Butterworth
RAF Kota Bharu
RAF Kuala Lumpur
Maldives
RAF Gan - now Gan International Airport
RAF Hithadhoo (domestic site for RAF Gan)
Malta
RAF Hal Far
RAF Kalafrana
RAF Luqa
RAF Safi
RAF Ta Kali (Ta' Qali)
Netherlands
RAF Eindhoven
Nigeria
RAF Ikeja
RAF Maiduguri
Oman
RAF Masirah
RAF Salalah
Palestine (now Israel)
RAF Aqir - now Tel Nof Israeli Air Force Base
RAF Ein Shemer - now Ein Shemer Airfield
RAF Gaza
RAF Haifa - now Haifa Airport
RAF Kolar
RAF Lydda - now Ben Gurion International Airport
RAF Petah Tiqva - now Kfar Sirkin Airfield
RAF Qastina - now Hatzor Israeli Air Force Base
RAF Ramat David - now Ramat David Israeli Air Force Base
RAF Ramleh
Singapore
RAF Amoy Quee
RAF Changi - now Changi Air Base and Singapore Changi Airport
RAF Chia Keng: a GCHQ radio receiving station and a satellite station to RAF Changi.
RAF Kallang - Old Kallang Airport (Status: defunct, closed down in 1955).
RAF Seletar - Seletar Airport
RAF Sembawang - also known as HMS Simbang in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm service, now Sembawang Air Base.
RAF Tengah - now Tengah Air Base
Sudan
RAF Khartoum
RAF Summit
Transjordan (now Jordan)
RAF Amman
United Arab Emirates
RAF Bahrain
RAF Sharjah
Current Royal Air Force Stations
England
Bedfordshire
RAF Henlow - now part of the combined RAF Brampton Wyton Henlow
Berkshire
RAF Welford
RAF Woodley
Buckinghamshire
RAF Halton
RAF High Wycombe
Cambridgeshire
RAF Brampton - now part of the combined RAF Brampton Wyton Henlow
RAF Wittering
RAF Wyton - now part of the combined RAF Brampton Wyton Henlow
Cornwall
RAF St. Mawgan
RRH Portreath
Cumbria
RAF Spadeadam
Devon
RAF Chivenor - now Royal Marines Base Chivenor
RAF Hartland Point (RADAR Station)
Gloucestershire
RAF Fairford
RAF Innsworth
Hampshire
Defence CBRN Centre, Winterbourne Gunner (managed by Strike Command)
RAF Oakhanger
RAF Odiham
Lincolnshire
RAF Barkston Heath
RAF Cranwell - home to the RAF College Cranwell
RAF Digby
RAF Coningsby
RAF Donna Nook
RAF Holbeach
RAF Scampton
RAF Waddington
RAF Wainfleet
RAF Woodhall Spa
London
RAF Bentley Priory
RAF Northolt
Northwood Headquarters
RAF Uxbridge
RAF West Drayton
Merseyside
RAF Woodvale
Norfolk
RAF Feltwell
RAF Marham
RAF Neatishead
RAF Trimingham
Northamptonshire
RAF Croughton
Northumberland
RAF Boulmer
Nottinghamshire
RAF Syerston
Oxfordshire
RAF Bampton Castle
RAF Barford St John
RAF Benson
RAF Brize Norton
RAF Weston-on-the-Green
Rutland
RAF Cottesmore
Shropshire
RAF Cosford
RAF Shawbury
RAF Ternhill
Staffordshire
RAF Stafford - now called MoD Stafford
Suffolk
RAF Honington
RAF Lakenheath - occupied by the United States Air Force
RAF Mildenhall - occupied by the United States Air Force
RAF Wattisham - now known as "Wattisham Airfield [1] used by a number of units, including the British Army (AAC Wattisham)
Surrey
RAF Headley Court - the Defence Medical Services (DMS) Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC)[2]
Wiltshire
RAF Boscombe Down - now called MoD Boscombe Down
RAF Lyneham
RAF Rudloe Manor
East Riding of Yorkshire
RAF Holmpton
RAF Leconfield
North Yorkshire
RAF Church Fenton
RAF Dishforth - also used by the British Army (AAC Dishforth)
RAF Fylingdales
RAF Leeming
RAF Menwith Hill
RAF Staxton Wold
RAF Topcliffe
RAF Linton-on-Ouse
Scotland
RRH Benbecula
RAF Buchan
RAF Kinloss
RAF Leuchars
RAF Lossiemouth
RAF Prestwick
RAF Spadeadam
RAF Tain
Wales
RAF Mona
RAF Saint Athan (South Glamorgan)
RAF Valley (Anglesey)
RAF Pembrey Sands
RAF Sealand
Northern Ireland
RAF Aldergrove - also used by the British Army (AAC Aldergrove)
Overseas
Ascension Island
RAF Ascension Island
Cyprus
RAF Akrotiri
RAF Troodos
Falkland Islands
RAF Mount Pleasant
Germany
RAF Nordhorn
Gibraltar
RAF Gibraltar
Qatar
RAF Al Udeid
Former Royal Air Force Stations.
England
Bedfordshire
RAF Bedford (RAE Bedford) - now Bedford Autodrome
RAF Cardington
RAF Chicksands
RAF Cranfield
RAF Gransden Lodge
RAF Podington
RAF Stanbridge - now part of the combined RAF Brampton Wyton Henlow
RAF Tempsford
RAF Thurleigh
RAF Twinwood Farm
Berkshire
RAF Aldermaston
RAF Greenham Common
RAF Grove
RAF Hampstead Norris
RAF Membury
RAF White Waltham - now White Waltham Airfield
Buckinghamshire
RAF Booker (High Wycombe) - now Wycombe Air Park
RAF Daws Hill
RAF Denham
RAF Finmere
RAF Oakley
RAF Thame
RAF Westcott
RAF Wing
Cambridgeshire
RAF Alconbury
RAF Bassingbourn
RAF Bottisham
RAF Bourn
RAF Duxford - now Imperial War Museum Duxford
RAF Fowlmere
RAF Glatton
RAF Kings Cliffe
RAF Little Staughton
RAF Mepal - now Mepal Airfield
RAF Oakington
RAF Snailwell
RAF Steeple Morden
RAF Upwood
RAF Warboys
RAF Waterbeach
RAF Witchford
RAF Wratting Common
Cheshire
RAF Burtonwood
RAF Calveley
RAF Hack Green
RAF Handforth
RAF Hooton Park
RAF Ringway - now Manchester Airport
RAF Wilmslow
Cornwall
RAF Cleave (GCHQ CSO Morwenstow)
RAF Davidstow Moor
RAF Perranporth
RAF Portreath
RAF Sennen/RAF Skewjack
RAF St Eval
RAF St Mawgan / RAF Trebelzue
RAF Treleaver
Cumberland
RAF Crosby-on-Eden
RAF Kirkbride
RAF Millom
Cumbria
RAF Carlisle (RAF Kingstown)
Derbyshire
RAF Ashbourne
Devon
RAF Babbacombe
RAF Dunkeswell
RAF Exeter - now Exeter International Airport
RAF Harrowbeer
RAF Mount Batten
RAF Winkleigh
Dorset
RAF Brandy Bay
RAF Christchurch
RAF Hurn - now Bournemouth International Airport
RAF Tarrant Rushton
RAF Warmwell
County Durham
RAF Croft - now Croft Circuit
RAF Greatham
RAF Middleton St. George
RAF Usworth
Essex
RAF Andrews Field
RAF Birch
RAF Boxted
RAF Bradwell Bay
RAF Chigwell
RAF Chipping Ongar
RAF Debden
RAF Earls Colne - now Earls Colne Airfield
RAF Fairlop
RAF Gosfield
RAF Great Dunmow
RAF Great Sampford
RAF Hornchurch
RAF Little Walden
RAF Matching
RAF North Weald - now North Weald Airfield
RAF Ridgewell
RAF Rivenhall
RAF Rochford - now London Southend Airport
RAF Stansted Mountfitchet - now London Stansted Airport
RAF Stapleford Tawney
RAF Wethersfield
RAF Wormingford
Gloucestershire
RAF Aston Down
RAF Babdown Farm (Relief Landing Ground - RLG)
RAF Bickmarsh
RAF Boddington
RAF Down Ampney
RAF Filton
RAF Honeybourne
RAF Kemble
RAF Little Rissington
RAF Long Marston
RAF Moreton-in-Marsh
RAF Northleach
RAF Pucklechurch
RAF Quedgeley
RAF South Cerney
RAF Southrop
RAF Staverton
RAF Stoke Orchard
Hampshire
RAF Andover
RAF Bisterne
RAF Beaulieu
RAF Blackbushe
RAF Calshot
RAF Eastleigh - renamed RAF Southampton
RAF Farnborough
RAF Flowerdown
RAF Gosport
RAF Hamble
RAF Hartford Bridge
RAF Holmsley South
RAF Hythe
RAF Ibsley
RAF Lasham - now Lasham Airfield
RAF Lee-on-Solent
RAF Middle Wallop - now used by the British Army, AAC Middle Wallop
RAF Sopley
RAF Southampton - formerly called RAF Eastleigh
RAF Stoney Cross
RAF Thorney Island
RAF Thruxton - now Thruxton Motor Racing Circuit
RAF Ventnor (Isle of Wight)
RAF Worthy Down
Herefordshire
RAF Hereford - now occupied by the British Army (AAC Hereford)
RAF Madley
Hertfordshire
RAF Bovingdon
RAF Chenies
RAF Hatfield
RAF Hunsdon
Huntingdonshire
RAF Graveley
RAF Kimbolton
RAF Molesworth
Kent
RAF Ash
RAF Biggin Hill (covered London area) - now Biggin Hill Airport
RAF Detling
RAF Eastchurch
RAF Gravesend
RAF Hawkinge
RAF Headcorn
RAF Lympne
RAF Manston - now Kent International Airport
RAF Sandwich
RAF West Malling
Lancashire
RAF Barton Hall
RAF Kirkham
RAF Longley Lane
RAF Padgate
RAF Salmesbury
RAF Speke
RAF Warton - now Warton Aerodrome
RAF Weeton
RAF Warrington
Leicestershire
RAF Bitteswell
RAF Bottesford
RAF Bruntingthorpe - now Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome and Proving Ground
RAF Castle Donington - now East Midlands Airport
RAF Desford
RAF Husbands Bosworth
RAF Leicester East - now Leicester Airport
RAF Loughborough
RAF Market Harborough
RAF Melton Mowbray
RAF Nuneaton
RAF Ratcliffe
RAF Rearsby
RAF Saltby
RAF Woolfox Lodge
RAF Wymeswold
Lincolnshire
RAF Bardney
RAF Blyton
RAF Coleby Grange
RAF Digby
RAF Dunholme Lodge
RAF East Kirkby
RAF Elsham Wolds
RAF Faldingworth
RAF Fiskerton
RAF Folkingham
RAF Fulbeck
RAF Goxhill
RAF Grimsby (aka RAF Waltham)
RAF Hemswell
RAF Ingham
RAF Kelstern
RAF Kirmington
RAF Kirton in Lindsey
RAF Ludford Magna
RAF Manby
RAF Metheringham
RAF North Coates
RAF North Killingholme
RAF North Witham
RAF Skellingthorpe
RAF Skendleby
RAF Spilsby
RAF Spittlegate
RAF Stenigot
RAF Strubby
RAF Sturgate
RAF Sutton Bridge
RAF Swinderby
RAF Wickenby
London
RAF Regents Park
Middlesex
RAF Hendon
RAF Heston
RAF Stanmore Park
Norfolk
Further information: Norfolk airfields
RAF Attlebridge
RAF Bacton - First World War "Landing Ground"
RAF Barton Bendish - Second World War Landing Ground
RAF Bircham Newton - technical site now the Construction Industry Training Board School
RAF Bodney
RAF Burgh Castle - First World War Landing Ground
RAF Bylaugh Hall - Second World War Landing Ground
RAF Coltishall - now "MoD Coltishall", awaiting formal disposal
RAF Deopham Green
RAF Docking
RAF Downham Market
RAF East Wretham
RAF Feltwell
RAF Fersfield
RAF Foulsham
RAF Great Massingham
RAF Great Yarmouth - First World War
RAF Hardwick
RAF Harling Road - First World War
RAF Hethel - now owned by Lotus Cars
RAF Hingham - First World War "Landing Ground"
RAF Holt - First World War "Landing Ground"
RAF Horsham St Faith - airfield site now Norwich International Airport
RAF Langham
RAF Little Snoring
RAF Ludham
RAF Matlaske
RAF Mattishall - First World War
RAF Methwold
RAF Mousehold Heath - 1914 under RFC, became first Norwich Airport in 1933
RAF Narborough
RAF North Creake
RAF North Pickenham
RAF Old Buckenham
RAF Oulton
RAF Pulham - used for the development of British airships between the wars.
RAF Rackheath
RAF Sculthorpe
RAF Sedgeford
RAF Seething
RAF Shipdham
RAF Snetterton Heath - airfield now Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit
RAF Swannington
RAF Swanton Morley
RAF Thetford
RAF Thorpe Abbotts
RAF Tibenham
RAF Watton
RAF Wendling
RAF West Raynham
RAF Weybourne
Northamptonshire
RAF Chelveston
RAF Deenethorpe
RAF Desborough
RAF Grafton Underwood
RAF Harrington
RAF Hinton-in-the-Hedges
RAF Polebrook
RAF Silverstone - now Silverstone International Motor Racing Circuit
RAF Sywell
Northumberland
RAF Acklington
RAF Brunton
RAF Eshott
RAF Milfield
RAF Ouston
RAF Tranwell
RAF Winfield
RAF Woolsington
Nottinghamshire
RAF Gamston
RAF Hucknall
RAF Langar
RAF Misson
RAF Newton
RAF Watnall
RAF Wigsley
RAF Winthorpe
RAF Worksop
Oxfordshire
RAF Abingdon
RAF Akeman Street
RAF Bicester - now Bicester Airfield
RAF Broadwell
RAF Culham
RAF Edgehill - now Shenington Gliding Club
RAF Enstone - now Enstone Airfield
RAF Harwell
RAF Kidlington - now Oxford Airport
RAF Mount Farm
RAF Upper Heyford
Rutland
RAF North Luffenham
Shropshire
RAF Atcham
RAF Bratton
RAF Bridgnorth
RAF High Ercall
RAF Sleap - now Sleap Airfield
RAF Tilstock
Somerset
RAF Culmhead
RAF Locking
RAF Lulsgate Bottom
RAF Merryfield
RAF Rudloe Manor
RAF West Myne
RAF Weston Zoyland
RAF Whitchurch
Staffordshire
RAF Abbots Bromley
RAF Fauld - see RAF Fauld Explosion
RAF Hednesford
RAF Hixon
RAF Lichfield
RAF Stafford
Suffolk
RAF Barnham
RAF Bawdsey
RAF Beccles
RAF Bentwaters - now Bentwaters Parks, home to Bentwaters Cold War Museum
RAF Bungay
RAF Bury St. Edmunds
RAF Debach
RAF Eye
RAF Felixstowe
RAF Framlingham
RAF Great Ashfield
RAF Halesworth
RAF Hopton
RAF Horham
RAF Knettishall
RAF Lavenham
RAF Leiston
RAF Martlesham Heath
RAF Mendlesham
RAF Metfeld
RAF Newmarket
RAF Rattlesden
RAF Raydon
RAF Shepherds Grove
RAF Stradishall
RAF Sudbury
RAF Tuddenham
RAF Woodbridge - now called Rock Barracks, occupied by the British Army's 23 Engineer Regiment (Air Assault Brigade)
Surrey
RAF Croydon - now Croydon Airport
RAF Dunsfold - now Dunsfold Aerodrome, and Top Gear studio and race track
RAF Gatwick - now London Gatwick Airport (formerley Surrey, now West Sussex)
RAF Hanworth
RAF Horne
RAF Kenley
RAF Redhill - now Redhill Aerodrome
East Sussex
RAF Beachy Head
RAF Friston
RAF Newhaven
RAF Pevensey
RAF Rye
RAF Wartling
West Sussex
RAF Ford
RAF Tangmere
RAF Westhampnett - now Chichester/Goodwood Airport
Warwickshire
RAF Ansty
RAF Baginton - now Coventry Airport
RAF Bramcote
RAF Church Lawford
RAF Elmdon
RAF Gaydon - now home to the Heritage Motor Centre
RAF Honiley
RAF Wellesbourne Mountford
Wiltshire
RAF Blakehill Farm
RAF Castle Combe - now Castle Combe Circuit
RAF Cherhill
RAF Chilmark
RAF Clyffe Pypard
RAF Colerne
RAF Compton Basset
RAF Cricklade (Radar site)
RAF Hullavington
RAF Keevil
RAF Melksham
RAF Netheravon - now occupied by the British Army, (AAC Netheravon)
RAF Upavon - now called Trenchard Lines, occupied by the British Army
RAF Watchfield
RAF Wroughton - now a depository of the National Museum of Science and Industry
RAF Yatesbury
RAF Zeals
Worcestershire
RAF Defford
RAF Pershore
RAF Worcester
Yorkshire
RAF Bawtry
RAF Bempton N.Yorks
RAF Bircotes
RAF Breighton E.Yorks
RAF Burn
RAF Carnaby
RAF Catterick
RAF Catfoss
RAF Cowden E.Yorks
RAF Croft
RAF Dalton
RAF Danby Beacon N.Yorks
RAF Doncaster - formerly RFC Doncaster (1914) Royal Flying Corps
RAF Driffield E.Yorks
RAF East Moor
RAF Elvington
RAF Finningley - now Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield
RAF Full Sutton N.Yorks
RAF Goldsborough N.Yorks
RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor
RAF Hutton Cranswick
RAF Lindholme (aka RAF Hatfield Woodhouse)
RAF Lissett
RAF Marston Moor
RAF Melbourne
RAF Norton
RAF Patrington
RAF Sandtoft
RAF Scorton N.Yorks
RAF Seaton Snook N.Yorks
RAF Skipton-on-Swale
RAF Snaith
RAF Tholthorpe N.Yorks
RAF Thornaby N.Yorks
RAF Wombleton
RAF Yeadon - now Leeds Bradford International Airport
Scotland
RAF Abbotsinch
RAF Aird Uig (Lewis)
RAF Ayr (Ayrshire)
RAF Balado Bridge (Kinross)
RAF Banff (Aberdeenshire)
RAF Benbecula (Benbecula)
RAF Dalcross
RAF Dallachy
RAF Drem
RAF Dronehill (Berwickshire)
RAF Dumfries
RAF Dyce (Aberdeenshire)
RAF Dundonald (Ayrshire)
RAF East Fortune (East Lothian)
RAF Errol (Perth and Kinross)
RAF Edzell (Angus)
RAF Evanton (Ross and Cromarty)
RAF Faraid Head (Highland)
RAF Findo Gask (Perth and Kinross)
RAF Fraseburgh Aberdeenshire
RAF Fullarton (Ayrshire)
RAF Gailes (Ayrshire)
RAF Grangemouth (Falkirk)
RAF Grimsetter Orkneys
RAF Hatston Orkneys
RAF Heathfield (Ayrshire)
RAF Inverness
RAF Kilchiaran (Isle of Islay)
RAF Kirknewton (West Lothian)
RAF Machrihanish (Argyll & Bute)
RAF Macmerry (East Lothian)
RAF Milltown Moray
RAF Montrose (Angus)
RAF Pitreavie Castle (Fife)
RAF Prestwick (Ayrshire)
RAF Saxa Vord (Shetland)
RAF Scarnish (Argyll & Bute)
RAF Scatsta (Shetland)
RAF Skitten
RAF Stornoway (Lewis)
RAF Sullom Voe (Shetland)
RAF Sumburgh (Shetland)
RAF Tealing
RAF Tiree
RAF Turnberry (Ayrshire)
RAF Turnhouse (City of Edinburgh)
RAF West Freugh (Wigtownshire)
RAF Wick (Caithness)
Wales
RAF Angle Pembrokshire
RAF Brawdy (Pembrokeshire)
RAF Caerwent (Monmouthshire)
RAF Fairwood Common Glamorgan
RAF Haverfordwest Pembrokeshire
RAF Hawarden Flintshire
RAF Holyhead
RAF Llanbedr
RAF Llandow
RAF Manorbier Pembrokeshire
RAF Pembrey (Carmarthenshire)
RAF Prestatyn (Denbighshire)
RAF Sealand (Flintshire sometime Clwyd)
RAF Stormy Down
RAF Talbenny
RAF Towyn
RAF Wrexham
Northern Ireland
RAF Sandy Bay
County Antrim
RAF Langford Lodge
RAF Long Kesh
RAF Maghaberry
RAF Murlough
RAF Nutts Corner
RAF Toome
County Down
RAF Ballyhalbert
RAF Belfast
RAF Bishops Court
RAF Greencastle
RAF Kirkistown
RAF Newtownards, Newtownards
RAF Sydenham
County Fermanagh
RAF Castle Archdale
RAF Killadeas
RAF St Angelo
County Londonderry
RAF Ballykelly
RAF Eglinton - now City of Derry Airport, Derry
RAF Limavady
RAF Maydown
RAF Mullaghmore
County Tyrone
RAF Cluntoe, Ardboe
Isle of Man
RAF Andreas
RAF Jurby
RAF Jurby Head
RAF Ronaldsway (HMS Urley, RNAS Ronaldsway)
Hall Caine Airport
Ireland (now Republic of Ireland)
RAF Baldonnel (County Dublin)
Overseas.
Aden (now Yemen)
RAF Khormaksar - now Aden International Airport
RAF Steamer Point
RAF Hospital Steamer Point
RAF Hospital Khormaksar Beach
Algeria
RAF Maison Blanche
Azores (Portugal)
RAF Lagens
Bahrain
RAF Muharraq
Belgium
RAF Ursel
Belize
RAF Belize
Bermuda
RAF Darrell's Island
RAF ATC/USAAF Fort Bell
Borneo
RAF Labuan
RAF Tawau
Sarawak
RAF Kuching
Burma (now Myanmar)
RAF Hmawbi
RAF Meiktilla
RAF Mingaladon
RAF Pegu
Canada
RAFU Goose Bay
Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
All former RAF bases in Ceylon were transferred to the respective Government upon independence from British Empire. Many are now used by the Sri Lanka Air Force, see also List of Sri Lankan air force bases
RAF China Bay - now SLAF China Bay
RAF Colombo - now Colombo Racecourse Airstrip
RAF Kankesanturai
RAF Katunayake was RAF Negombo
RAF Koggala - now SLAF Koggala
RAF Negombo - now Bandaranaike International Airport
RAF Ratmalana - now SLAF Ratmalana
RAF Shigiriya - now SLAF Shigiriya
RAF Sigiriya
RAF Trincomalee
RAF Vavuniya
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
RAF Cocos Islands
Cyprus
RAF Episkopi
RAF Nicosia
Egypt
RAF Abu Sueir
RAF Abu Sultan
RAF Almaza
RAF Amriya
RAF Cairo West
RAF Deversoir
RAF El Ballah
RAF El Hamra
RAF Fayid
RAF Gianaclis
RAF Heliopolis
RAF Helwan
RAF Ismailia
RAF Kabrit
RAF Kasfareet
RAF Shallufa
Faroe Islands
RAF Vaagar
France
RAF Istres
Germany
RAF Ahlhorn
RAF Blankensee
RAF Bruggen - now a British Army Garrison, called "Elmpt Station, Javelin Barracks"
RAF Buckeburg
RAF Butzweilerhof
RAF Celle
RAF Fassberg
RAF Fuhlsbüttel
RAF Gatow
RAF Geilenkirchen
RAF Goch
RAF Gütersloh - now a British Army Garrison, called "Princess Royal Barracks, Gütersloh", (AAC Gütersloh)
RAF Hambuhren
RAF Hehn
RAF Hustedt
RAF Husum - a remote radar station on the coast near Husum, Schleswig-Holstein
RAF Jever
RAF Laarbruch
RAF Lubeck
RAF Luneberg
RAF Oldenburg
RAF Plantlünne
RAF Rheindahlen - now occupied by the British Army, as HQ United Kingdom Support Command (Germany) (HQ UKSC(G))
RAF Schleswigland
RAF Sundern
RAF Sylt
RAF Uetersen
RAF Wahn
RAF Hospital Wegberg - now occupied by the British Army, as HQ British Forces Germany Health Service (BFGHS)
RAF Wildenrath
RAF Winterberg
RAF Wunstorf
Gold Coast (now Ghana)
RAF Takoradi
Hong Kong
RAF Little Sai Wan
RAF Kai Tak
RAF Sek Kong
Iceland
RAF Kaldadarnes
India
RAF Agra - now Agra Air Force Station, Uttar Pradesh
RAF Alipore
RAF Allahabad - now Bamrauli Air Force Station, Uttar Pradesh
RAF Amarda Road
RAF Ambala - now Ambala Air Force Station, Haryana
RAF Agartala - now Agartala Air Force Station, Tripura
RAF Arkonam
RAF Asansol
RAF Bangalore (aka RAF Yelahanka) - now Yelahanka Air Force Station, Bangalore, Karnataka
RAF Barrackpore - now Barrackpore Air Force Station, West Bengal
RAF Bhopal
RAF Car Nicobar - now Car Nicobar Air Force Station, Nicobar Islands, Indian Union Territory
RAF Chakeri - now Chakeri Air Force Station, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
RAF Cholovaram
RAF Delhi
RAF Dhubalia
RAF Digri
RAF Dum Dum - now Dum Dum Air Force Station, Calcutta, West Bengal
RAF Hakimpet - now Hakimpet Air Force Station, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
RAF Imphal
RAF Jessore
RAF Jodhpur - now Jodhpur Air Force Station, Rajasthan
RAF Kalyan
RAF Kanchrapara
RAF Kohat
RAF Kolar
RAF Lahore
RAF Maharajpur - now Maharajpur Air Force Station, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
RAF Palam
RAF Poona - now Pune-Lohegaon Air Force Station, Maharashtra
RAF Secunderbad
RAF Srinagar - now Srinagar Air Force Station, Jammu & Kashmir
RAF Tambaram - now Tambaram Air Force Station, Tamil Nadu
RAF Vizagapatam
Pakistan
RAF Chaklala - now Islamabad International Airport and Pakistan Air Force Base Chaklala
RAF Jiwani - now Jiwani Airport
RAF Karachi - now Pakistan Air Force Base Faisal
RAF Mauripur (used after partition by RAF) - now Pakistan Air Force Base Masroor
RAF Peshawar - now Pakistan Air Force Base Peshawar
RAF Quetta - now Pakistan Air Force Base Samungli
RAF Risalpur - now Pakistan Air Force Base Risalpur
RAF Sargodha (??? Sargodha#Origin of name) - now Pakistan Air Force Base Mushaf
Iraq
RAF Basrah
RAF Dhibban (renamed RAF Habbaniya in 1938)
RAF Hinaidi
RAF Shaibah
Italy
RAF Cagliari, Sardinia
RAF Decimomannu, Sardinia
RAF El Mas, Sardinia
Japan
RAF Iwakuni
Jordan
RAF Mafraq
Kenya
RAF Eastleigh
RAF Kisumu
RAF Mombasa
RAF Nairobi
RAF Thika
Libya
RAF Benina
RAF Castel Benito
RAF El Adem
RAF Idris
British Malaya (now Malaysia)
RAF Butterworth
RAF Kota Bharu
RAF Kuala Lumpur
Maldives
RAF Gan - now Gan International Airport
RAF Hithadhoo (domestic site for RAF Gan)
Malta
RAF Hal Far
RAF Kalafrana
RAF Luqa
RAF Safi
RAF Ta Kali (Ta' Qali)
Netherlands
RAF Eindhoven
Nigeria
RAF Ikeja
RAF Maiduguri
Oman
RAF Masirah
RAF Salalah
Palestine (now Israel)
RAF Aqir - now Tel Nof Israeli Air Force Base
RAF Ein Shemer - now Ein Shemer Airfield
RAF Gaza
RAF Haifa - now Haifa Airport
RAF Kolar
RAF Lydda - now Ben Gurion International Airport
RAF Petah Tiqva - now Kfar Sirkin Airfield
RAF Qastina - now Hatzor Israeli Air Force Base
RAF Ramat David - now Ramat David Israeli Air Force Base
RAF Ramleh
Singapore
RAF Amoy Quee
RAF Changi - now Changi Air Base and Singapore Changi Airport
RAF Chia Keng: a GCHQ radio receiving station and a satellite station to RAF Changi.
RAF Kallang - Old Kallang Airport (Status: defunct, closed down in 1955).
RAF Seletar - Seletar Airport
RAF Sembawang - also known as HMS Simbang in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm service, now Sembawang Air Base.
RAF Tengah - now Tengah Air Base
Sudan
RAF Khartoum
RAF Summit
Transjordan (now Jordan)
RAF Amman
United Arab Emirates
RAF Bahrain
RAF Sharjah
