RAF Sylt
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Royal Air Force Sylt or more simply RAF Sylt is a former Royal Air Force station located near Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
The site was renamed from B.170 Westerland to RAF Sylt on 27 September 1945.
History
The following squadrons were posted here at some point:
- No. 2 Squadron RAF
- No. 3 Squadron RAF
- No. 4 Squadron RAF
- No. 14 Squadron RAF
- No. 16 Squadron RAF
- No. 21 Squadron RAF
- No. 26 (South African) Squadron RAF
- No. 33 Squadron RAF
- No. 41 Squadron RAF
- No. 56 Squadron RAF
- No. 69 Squadron RAF
- No. 80 Squadron RAF
- No. 107 Squadron RAF
- No. 302 (City of Poznan) Polish Fighter Squadron
- No. 305 (Ziemia Wielkopolska) Polish Bomber Squadron
- No. 308 "City of Kraków" Polish Fighter Squadron
- No. 317 "City of Wilno" Polish Fighter Squadron
- No. 349 (Belgian) Squadron RAF
- No. 350 (Belgian) Squadron RAF
- No. 411 (Grizzly Bear) Squadron RCAF
- No. 412 (Falcon) Squadron RCAF
- No. 24 Armament Practice Camp RAF
- Training Squadron, RAF Sylt
- Armament Training Flight
- Armament Practice Station, Sylt: Target Towing Squadron with Gloster Meteor TT.8s Weapons Training Flight with de Havilland Vampire T.11s Station Flight with ASR Bristol Sycamore & a Avro Anson C.19
Current use
This site is now Sylt Airport.
See also
Citations
Bibliography
- Jefford, C G (1988). RAF Squadrons. A comprehensive record of the movement and equipment of all RAF squadrons and their antecedents since 1912. Shrewsbury: Airlife. ISBN 1-85310-053-6.
- Sturtivant, Ray; Hamlin, John (2007). Royal Air Force flying training and support units since 1912. Tonbridge, UK: Air-Britain (Historians). ISBN 978-0851-3036-59.