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Honington

Major
Also known as: Honington Aerodrome / Honnington (misspelling) / RAF Honington / USAAF Station 375
County: Suffolk
Current Status: RAF ground duties
Date: May 1937 - March 1994 (closed to flying)
Current Use: Closed to flying
Used By: RAF (main user) / RAF (Czech) / Civil / FAA / USAAF (main user)
Landing Surface Types: Unpaved, later metal/unpaved, later paved
Aircraft Roles: Aircraft maintenance/repair (main role) / Army aviation / Bomber (main role) / Electronic warfare / Fighter / Fighter-reconnaissance / General aviation / Military development/support / Naval aviation / Reconnaissance / Trainer
The following organisations are either based at, use and/or have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 30/04/2019):
  • Bury Model Flying Club
  • Fakenham Magna Parish Council
  • Honington cum Sapiston Parish Council
  • Honington HIVE
  • Shipley (Hirst Wood) Church Burial Ground - RAF grave of Sergeant Peter Bilsborough, No 9 Sqn, died in action November 1941; grave tragically destroyed in criminal act June 2019
  • Troston Parish Council

Notable Past Associated Organisations:

  • Thetford and Bury St Edmunds Radio Controlled Model Flying Club



          

Main unit(s) present:

  • No 1 Mechanical Transport Repair Unit
  • No 1 Sqn RAF Regiment
  • No 1 Tactical Police Sqn
  • No 1 Transport Aircraft Modification Unit

  • No 3 Gp Practice Flight

  • No 3 Tactical Police Sqn RAuxAF
  • No 5 BAT Flight

  • No 7 Sqn

  • No 9 Sqn

  • No 10 Sqn

  • No 12 Sqn

  • No 13 BAT Flight

  • No 13 Sqn

  • No XV Sqn

  • No 15 Sqn RAF Regiment
  • No 20 Sqn RAF Regiment
  • No 26 Sqn
  • No 27 Sqn RAF Regiment
  • No 44 Sqn

  • No 51 Sqn

  • No 55 Sqn

  • No 57 Sqn

  • No 58 MU

  • No 58 Sqn

  • No 75 Sqn

  • No 77 Sqn

  • No 90 Sqn

  • No 102 Sqn

  • No 103 EGS / E103 EGS

  • No 103 GS

  • No 103 Sqn

  • No 105 Sqn

  • No 199 Sqn

  • No 204 Sqn

  • No 208 Sqn

  • No 214 Sqn

  • No 215 Sqn

  • No 216 Sqn
  • No 237 OCU

  • No 311 Sqn

  • 364th FG

  • 383rd FS
  • 384th FS
  • 385th FS
  • No 543 Sqn

  • No 611 VGS
  • No 809 Sqn

  • No 1504 BAT Flight

  • No 1505 BAT Flight

  • No 1513 BAT Flight

  • No 2623 Sqn RAuxAF Regiment
  • No 2715 Sqn RAF Regiment
  • Avionic Development and Servicing Unit (Buccaneer)

  • Joint Rapier Training Unit

  • RAF Force Protection Centre
  • RAF Force Protection Headquarters
  • RAF Honington Flying Club
  • RAF Honington Voluntary Band
  • RAF Regiment Depot
  • RAF Regiment Training Wing
  • Rapier Training Unit

  • Regional Rehabilitation Unit
  • Specialist and Security Police Wing
  • Strike Command Avionics Development and Servicing Unit

  • Strike Command Buccaneer Force

  • Tornado Weapons Conversion Unit

  • Transport Command Major Servicing Unit

  • Transport Command Signals Training Unit

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A hardened aircraft shelter at Honington, 3 June 2006.

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Landing lights at Honington, 21 July 2006.

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A hangar at Honington, 21 January 2009.

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Model aircraft at Honington with the control tower in the background, 28 February 2009.

Footage of Honington in the early 1990s. Courtesy of Andy Ward

Satellite(s):

East Wretham 

Decoy Airfield(s):

IxworthThetford

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