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Henlow

Major
Also known as: RAF Henlow
County: Bedfordshire
Current Status: Aviation / Museum
Date: Opened 1918
Current Use: Active
Used By: RAF

The following organisations are either based at, use and/or have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 01/09/2011):

  • Clifton Parish Council
  • Henlow HIVE
  • Henlow Parish Council
  • RAF Signals Museum
  • St Andrew's Church, Henlow
  • St Mary's Church, Henlow

Main unit(s) present:

  • No 1 Air Stores Park

  • No 1 AACU 'X' Flight

  • No 1 AACU 'Y' Flight

  • No 1 AACU 'Z' Flight

  • No 2 Air Stores Park

  • No 2 RAF Depot

  • No 2 Salvage Centre

  • No 3 Air Stores Park

  • No 3 FP

  • No 3 Salvage Centre

  • No 4 Salvage Centre

  • No 5 (Eastern) ARD

  • No 6 Air Stores Park

  • No 7 Air Stores Park

  • No 13 MU

  • No 13 SoTT

  • No 14 SoTT

  • No 19 Sqn

  • No 20 Air Stores Park

  • No 23 Sqn

  • No 43 Gp Comms Flight

  • No 43 Sqn

  • No 49 MU

  • No 80 Sqn

  • No 106 EGS

  • No 106 GS

  • No 616 GS

  • No 616 VGS

  • No 1959 Reserve AOP Flight

  • No 1961 Reserve AOP Flight

  • No 2709 Sqn RAF Regiment
  • No 2727 Sqn RAF Regiment
  • Henlow Flying Club

  • Home Aircraft Depot

  • Inland Area Aircraft Depot

  • Joint Arms Control Implementation Group

  • Parachute Test Unit (Ministry of Supply)

  • Pilotless Aircraft Section

  • Queen Bee Flight

  • Radio Engineering Unit

  • Rapier Cold Trails Unit

  • RAF School of Aeronautical Engineering (Officers)

  • Signals Development Unit

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Personnel at Henlow. Courtesy of New Zealand Bomber Command Association/Brown

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A damaged aircraft at Henlow. Courtesy of New Zealand Bomber Command Association/Brown

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Coupled General Service Flight Sheds (Building 186), 2 August 2013. © Richard Flagg

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Coupled General Service Flight Sheds (Building 188), 2 August 2013. © Richard Flagg

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Runway 09:27 looking west, 2 August 2013. © Richard Flagg

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Coupled General Service Flight Sheds (Building 189), 2 August 2013. © Richard Flagg

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Site of a hangar, 2 August 2013. © Richard Flagg

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Sommerfeld Track at Henlow, 2 August 2013. © Richard Flagg

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Gate Guard at Henlow, a Hawker Hunter F.1, 2 August 2013. © Richard Flagg

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Hangar (Building 190), 28 October 2017. © Richard Flagg

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Runway 14:32 looking north west, 28 October 2017. © Richard Flagg

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Landing Circle at Henlow, 28 October 2017. © Richard Flagg

Footage of Henlow, 1933. Courtesy of British Pathé

Decoy Airfield(s):

Astwick

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