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2,743 metres (8,999 ft) 15/33. 1,295 metres (4,249 ft) Royal Air Force Burtonwood (or RAF Burtonwood) is a former Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces base that was located in Burtonwood, 2 miles (3.2 km) Northwest of Warrington in Cheshire, England. The base was opened in 1940 in response to World War II by the RAF and in 1942 it ...
Also, RAF Burtonwood, which was operating as a reserve USAFE base since the opening of Châteauroux-Déols Air Base in the early 1950s was turned over to the US Army in 1966 and was renamed Burtonwood Army Depot. The Army transferred all of its stores and equipment in France to Burtonwood and operated the facility as its primary storage and ...
originally accommodation for Fleet Air Arm base HMS Gosling (1942-1950s), the station was used as a processing & billeting centre for personnel traveling between the UK and US by USAF Burtonwood. RAF Crosby on Eden: KX England Cumbria: 1941 1944 Now Carlisle Lake District Airport: RAF Croydon: England Surrey: 1916 1946
53.430153°N 2.661355°W. / 53.430153; -2.661355. Burtonwood is a village in the civil parish of Burtonwood and Westbrook, in the Borough of Warrington, Cheshire, England. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, the name Burtonwood is known worldwide as the location of the former RAF Station Burtonwood military camp.
United Kingdom. Between 1948 and 1992, personnel and aircraft of the United States Air Force (USAF) Strategic Air Command (SAC) were routinely deployed to bases in England. An informal agreement to base SAC bombers in the UK was reached between US General Carl Spaatz, and Marshal of the Royal Air Force (RAF) Lord Tedder, in July 1946.
This list of Royal Air Force stations is an overview of all current stations of the Royal Air Force (RAF) throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. This includes front-line and training airbases, support, administrative and training stations with no flying activity, unmanned airfields used for training, intelligence gathering stations and an ...
Burtonwood Air Depot (later RAF Burtonwood), England, 7 November 1953; RAF Alconbury, England, 25 April 1959; RAF Mildenhall, England, 10 August 1959 – 18 March 1960; Kindley Air Force Base, Bermuda, 8 January 1962 – 1 July 1963; Hunter Air Force Base, Georgia, 31 August 1963; Ramey Air Force Base, Puerto Rico, 15 June 1966
List of V Bomber dispersal bases. In its early years, the British V bomber force relied on the concept of aircraft dispersal to escape the effects of an enemy attack on their main bases. There were 22 such bases in 1962, in addition to the ten main bases a total of 32 bases available for the V bomber force. [ 1]