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Castle Camps

Major
Also known as: Castle Camps Aerodrome / RAF Castle Camps
County: Cambridgeshire
Current Status: Farmland
Date: June 1940 - 28 March 1946
Current Use: Disused
Used By: RAF (main user) / RAF (Polish) / RAAF / RCAF / RNZAF
Landing Surface Types: Unpaved, later paved
Aircraft Roles: Communications / Fighter (main role) / Radar calibration
N.B. - Castle Camps is situated across the two counties of Cambridgeshire and Essex but primarily geographically resides in Cambridgeshire.

The following organisations are either based at, use and/or have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 01/09/2011):
  • Castle Camps Parish Council
  • Helions Bumpstead Parish Council

The folowing alternative information/mass media sources have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 30/11/2018):

  • Castle Camps Village

Main unit(s) present:

  • No 25 (Base) Defence Wing

  • No 25 Sqn

  • No 68 Sqn

  • No 73 Sqn

  • No 85 Gp Communication Sqn

  • No 85 Sqn

  • No 91 Sqn

  • No 149 Airfield

  • No 151 Sqn

  • No 157 Sqn

  • No 307 Sqn

  • No 410 Sqn

  • No 456 Sqn

  • No 486 Sqn

  • No 527 Sqn

  • No 605 Sqn

  • No 2771 Sqn RAF Regiment
  • No 2887 Sqn RAF Regiment
001Runway 14:32. Looking south east from the runway 14 threshold 2 - 13 October 2007.png

Runway 14:32, looking south-east from the runway 14 threshold, 13 October 2007. © Richard Flagg

002Runway 14:32. Looking south east from the runway 14 threshold - 13 October 2007.png

Runway 14:32, looking south-east from the runway 14 threshold, 13 October 2007. © Richard Flagg

003Taxiway at the west of the airfield. Looking north from the runway 14 threshold - 13 October 2007.png

Taxiway at the west of the airfield, looking north from the runway 14 threshold, 13 October 2007. © Richard Flagg

004Taxiway at the west of the airfield. Looking south from the runway 14 threshold - 13 October 2007.png

Taxiway at the west of the airfield, looking south from the runway 14 threshold, 13 October 2007. © Richard Flagg

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Remains of a runway at Castle Camps, 29 August 2010.

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The perimeter track at Castle Camps, 8 April 2021.

Parent(s)/HQ Airfield(s):

Debden

Associated Airfield(s):

North Weald

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