RAF Newmarket

RAF Newmarket

RAF Newmarket was an RAF station near Newmarket, Suffolk, England, near the border with Cambridgeshire.

This RAF station was actually a grass-strip on Newmarket's Rowley Mile Racecourse [http://www.newmarketracecourses.co.uk] . This grass strip is still used for landings today and was the scene of a crash in June 2000 in which the pilot was killed and jockeys Frankie Dettori and Ray Cochrane injured.

Operational units and aircraft

* No. 2 Squadron RAF detachment (1943) - North American Mustang I
* No. 75 Squadron RAF (1942-1943) - Short Stirling I & III
* No. 99 Squadron RAF (1939-1941) - Vickers Wellington I, IA & IC
* No. 107 Squadron RAF detachment (1939-1941) - Bristol Blenheim I & IV
* No. 138 Squadron RAF (1941) - Westland Lysander IIIA & Armstrong Whitworth Whitley V
* No. 161 Squadron RAF (1942) - Westland Lysander IIIA, Lockheed Hudson I & Armstrong Whitworth Whitley V
* No. 453 Squadron RAF (1943 for one week) - Supermarine Spitfire VB

ee also

* List of RAF stations


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