RAF Wittering
Dates Unit Aircraft
1916-17 ' A ' Flight No 38 ( Home Defence ) Squadron BE2c ; RE7 ; FE2b
1917-19 No 1 Training Depot Station Bristol F2b ; Avro 4504K
1917-19 United States Detachment Elementary Flying School and 831st Aeroplane Repair Squadron DH6 ; Curtiss JN
1917-19 No 5 Training Depot Station Snipe , Camel , Scout , RE8 , DH9 , DH9a
1917-19 United States Aeroplane Repair Squadron
1924-35 Central Flying School Avro 504K ; Bristol Fighter ; Snipe ; Grebe ; Gamecock ; Siskin ; Lynx ; Hawker Tomfit ; Hawker Hart ; Bristol Bulldog ; Fairy IIIF ; Armstrong Whitworth Atlas ; Vickers Victoria
1935-38 No 11 Flying Training School Tutor ; Hart ; Audux ; Gauntlet ; Fury
1938-40 No 23 Squadron Demon ; Blenheim NF1
1938-40 No 213 Squadron Gauntlet II ; Hurricane I
1938-40 No 610 Squadron Spitfire I
1940 No 1 Squadron Hurricane I
1940 No 32 Squadron Hurricane I
1940 No 229 Squadron Hurricane I
1940 No 74 Squadron Spitfire XII
1940-42 No 25 Squadron Beaufighter 1F
1940-43 No 151 Squadron Hurricane Iic ; Defiant I & II ; Mosquito NFII
1940-42 No 266 Squadron Spitfire I , IIa , IIb , & Vb
1941-42 No 1453 Flight Havoc ( Turbinlite ) ; Boston
1942-43 No 532 Squadron Havoc I ( Turbinlite ) ; Boston III ; Hurricane IIb & IIc
Units
Royal Air Force Station Wittering or more simply RAF Wittering is a Royal Air Force station within the unitary authority area of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire and the district of East Northamptonshire. Although Stamford in Lincolnshire is the nearest town, the runways of RAF Wittering cross the boundary between Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.