RAF Bodorgan
No. 15 SLG
RAF Aberffraw
Bodorgan, Isle of Anglesey in Wales
RAF Bodorgan is located in Anglesey
RAF Bodorgan
RAF Bodorgan
Shown within Anglesey, Wales
RAF Bodorgan is located in the United Kingdom
RAF Bodorgan
RAF Bodorgan
RAF Bodorgan (the United Kingdom)
Coordinates53°11′13″N 4°25′28″W / 53.18694°N 4.42444°W / 53.18694; -4.42444
TypeSatellite Landing Ground
Site information
OwnerAir Ministry
OperatorRoyal Air Force
Controlled byRAF Maintenance Command
Site history
Built1940 (1940)
In use1940-1946 (1946)
Battles/warsEuropean theatre of World War II
Airfield information
Runways
Direction Length and surface
NNE/SSQ 1,000 yards (914 m) Grass[1]
E/W 1,000 yards (914 m) Grass
WSW/ENE 960 yards (878 m) Grass

Royal Air Force Bodorgan, or more simply RAF Bodorgan, is a former Royal Air Force satellite airfield located near to Bodorgan Hall on the Isle of Anglesey, Wales. The airfield was opened as RAF Aberffraw on 1 September 1940. Its named was changed to Bodorgan on 15 May 1941, and it was closed on 30 September 1945.[2]

Bodorgan initially had one Blister hangar, with two Bellman hangars added later. Accommodation for personnel was initially in tents, which were replaced by Nissen and Maycrete huts, for accommodation, workshops and technical functions. The hangars were dismantled soon after the airfield closed, but some of the huts remain at the site.[2]

In 1942 the fields to the east of the airfield were used for the camouflaged storage of up to thirty Vickers Wellington medium bomber aircraft.[2]

The following units were here at some point:[3]

See also

References

Citations

  1. ↑ McLelland 2012, p. 48.
  2. 1 2 3 "Bodorgan Airfield, Aberffraw (270848)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
  3. ↑ "Bodorgan (Aberffraw)". Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  4. 1 2 3 Sturtivant & Hamlin 2007, p. 62.
  5. 1 2 Sturtivant & Hamlin 2007, p. 128.
  6. ↑ Sturtivant & Hamlin 2007, p. 64.
  7. ↑ Sturtivant & Hamlin 2007, p. 177.
  8. ↑ Jefford 1988, p. 97.
  9. ↑ Jefford 1988, p. 101.

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 UK: Airlife Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-85310-053-6.
  • McLelland, Tim (2012). Action Stations Revisited No. 5 Wales and the West Midlands. Manchester UK: Crecy Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-0-859-79111-3.
  • Sturtivant, Ray; Hamlin, John (2007). Royal Air Force flying training and support units since 1912. UK: Air-Britain (Historians). ISBN 978-0851-3036-59.
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