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Middle Wallop

Major
Also known as: AAC Middle Wallop / HMS Flycatcher / Middle Wallop Aerodrome / RAF Middle Wallop / RNAS Middle Wallop / USAAF Station 449
County: Hampshire
Current Status: Aviation / Museum
Date: Opened 15 April 1940
Current Use: Active
Used By: RAF / FAA / AAC / RCAF / USAAF

The following organisations are either based at, use and/or have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 01/07/2013):

  • Army Air Corps Centre MAC
  • Nether Wallop Parish Council
  • Over Wallop Parish Council
  • The Museum of Army Flying
  • Tidworth HIVE

Main unit(s) present:

  • No 1 Aircraft Delivery Flight
  • No 1 Sqn RCAF

  • No 2 (Training) Regiment AAC

  • No 6 Fighter Command Servicing Unit
  • No 7 (Training) Regiment AAC

  • No 15 SFTS

  • No 16 Sqn

  • No 19 Sqn

  • No 23 Sqn

  • No 25 Flight AAC

  • No 32 Sqn

  • No 41 OTU

  • No 56 Sqn

  • No 62 Gp Comms Flight
  • No 62 (Southern Reserve) Group

  • No 63 Sqn

  • 67th Tactical Reconnaissance Group

  • No 80 Sqn
  • No 93 Sqn

  • No 121 Airfield

  • No 125 Sqn

  • No 151 Sqn

  • No 164 Sqn

  • No 165 Sqn
  • No 169 Sqn

  • No 182 Sqn

  • No 227 OCU

  • No 234 Sqn

  • No 236 Sqn

  • No 238 Sqn

  • No 245 Sqn

  • No 247 Sqn

  • No 256 Sqn

  • No 285 Sqn

  • No 286 Sqn

  • No 288 Sqn

  • No 371 Repair & Salvage Unit
  • No 400 Sqn

  • No 406 Sqn

  • No 414 Sqn

  • No 418 Sqn

  • No 420 Flight
  • No 456 Sqn

  • No 501 Sqn

  • No 504 Sqn

  • No 537 Sqn

  • No 587 Sqn

  • No 601 Sqn

  • No 604 Sqn

  • No 609 Sqn

  • No 651 Sqn

  • No 657 Sqn

  • No 662 Sqn
  • No 668 (Training) Sqn AAC

  • No 670 Sqn AAC

  • No 671 Sqn AAC

  • No 673 Sqn AAC

  • No 676 Sqn AAC

  • No 700 Sqn

  • No 841 Sqn

  • No 1458 (Fighter) Flight

  • No 1900 AOP Flight
  • No 1901 AOP Flight

  • No 1906 (Helicopter) Flight

  • No 1962 Reserve AOP Flight

  • No 2749 Sqn RAF Regiment
  • No 2750 Sqn RAF Regiment
  • No 2770 Sqn RAF Regiment
  • No 2775 Sqn RAF Regiment
  • No 2811 Sqn RAF Regiment
  • No 2813 Sqn RAF Regiment
  • No 2848 Sqn RAF Regiment
  • No 2879 Sqn RAF Regiment
  • No 3501 Servicing Unit
  • No 4079 Anti-Aircraft Flight RAF Regiment
  • The Air Observation Post School
  • Army Aviation Centre

  • Army Flying Association
  • Central Flying School Helicopter Development Flight
  • Fighter Command Control & Reporting School

  • Fighter Experimental Establishment

  • HQ Southern Sector

  • Joint Experimental Helicopter Unit

  • Light Aircraft School

  • Royal Artillery Aero Club

  • School of Army Aviation

  • School of Fighter Plotting

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A hangar at Middle Wallop, 29 August 2008.

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The control tower at Middle Wallop, 29 August 2008.

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A Westland WAH-64D Longbow Apache at Middle Wallop, 2 March 2011. © Richard Flagg

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Two Westland WAH-64D Longbow Apaches at Middle Wallop, 2 March 2011. © Richard Flagg

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A Westland Lynx at Middle Wallop, 2 March 2011. © Richard Flagg

Footage of Middle Wallop, 1946. Courtesy of British Pathé

Army Air Corps Air Show at Middle Wallop, 1965. Courtesy of British Pathé

Satellite(s):

IbsleyWarmwell

Decoy Airfield(s):

Houghton

Associated Airfield(s):

Beaulieu III / Chilbolton / Christchurch / Ibsley

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