RAF Worksop

Royal Air Force Worksop, or more simply RAF Worksop, is a former

• Curtiss Tomahawks and Vickers Wellingtons^[3]
• No 1 Engine Control and Demonstration Unit RAF between February 1945 and January 1946[4]
• No 1 Group Communication Flight RAF between December 1945 and January 1946^[5]
• No. 4 Flying Training School RAF between June 1956 and June 1958^[6]
• No. 211 Advanced Flying School RAF between August 1952 and June 1954^[7] became No. 211 Flying Training School RAF between June 1954 and June 1956^[8]
• No. 616 Squadron RAF from 23 May 1955 with the Gloster Meteor F.8 before being disbanded on 10 March 1957^[9]
• Bomber Command Central Night Vision School RAF between December 1945 and March 1946^[10]
• RAF Central Vision Training School RAF between March 1946 and June 1948^[11]
• Transport Command Central Vision Training School RAF between November 1946 and May 1958^[12]

Current use

The site is currently used for farming with few remaining signs of the former airfield.^[13]

See also

• List of former Royal Air Force stations

References

Citations

Bibliography

• Falconer, J. (2012). RAF Airfields of World War 2. UK: Ian Allan Publishing.
  ISBN 978-1-85780-349-5
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• Jefford, C. G. (1988). RAF Squadrons. A comprehensive record of the movement and equipment of all RAF squadrons and their antecedents since 1912.
  ISBN 1-85310-053-6
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• Sturtivant, R.; Hamlin, J. (2007). Royal Air Force flying training and support units since 1912. UK: Air-Britain (Historians).
  ISBN 978-0851-3036-59
  .