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Ouston

Major
Also known as: Albemarle Barracks / Ouston Aerodrome / RAF Ouston / RAF Station, Ouston / USAAF Station 360
County: Northumberland
Current Status: Army barracks
Date: March 1941 - 31 December 1974
Current Use: Disused
Used By: RAF / RAF (Belgian) / RAF (Polish) / Civil

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

  • Stamfordham Parish Council

Main unit(s) present:

  • No 2 Civilian Fighter Control Co-operation Unit
  • No 3 Radio Servicing Section

  • No 4 Mobile Glider Servicing Party
  • No 6 FTS
  • No 7 AACU

  • No 11 AEF

  • No 11 (Fighter) Group

  • No 11 Gp Comms Flight

  • No 13 (Fighter) Group

  • No 13 Gp AAC Flight

  • No 13 Gp Comms Flight

  • No 22 SFTS

  • No 27 GS

  • No 55 OTU

  • No 62 OTU

  • No 72 (Signals) Wing Calibration Flight
  • No 72 Sqn

  • No 80 (French) OTU

  • No 81 Sqn

  • No 122 Sqn

  • No 131 Sqn

  • No 198 Sqn

  • No 226 Sqn

  • No 232 Sqn

  • No 242 Sqn

  • No 243 Sqn

  • No 281 Sqn

  • No 288 Sqn
  • No 289 Sqn
  • No 291 Sqn
  • No 317 Sqn

  • No 350 Sqn

  • No 410 Sqn
  • No 607 Sqn

  • No 613 Sqn

  • No 641 GS

  • No 657 Sqn

  • No 664 Sqn

  • No 770 Sqn

  • No 804 Sqn

  • No 1423 Flight

  • No 1490 (Fighter) Gunnery Flight

  • No 1508 (Gee Training) Flight

  • No 1965 Reserve AOP Flight

  • No 2893 Sqn RAF Regiment
  • Durham UAS

  • Northumbrian Universities Air Sqn

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A pillbox at Ouston, 1 March 2009.

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A pillbox at Ouston, 10 February 2012.

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A pillbox at Ouston, 10 February 2012.

Relief Landing Ground(s):

Woolsington

Decoy Airfield(s):

Berwick Hill

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