RAF Haifa

RAF Haifa

RAF Haifa was a Royal Air Force station in Palestine between 1942 and 1948. Since 1948 it has been Haifa Airport.

Haifa Airport had been established in 1934, as the first international airport in Palestine, originally serving the British Army and the Iraqi-British oil company, APS. In 1940 civil flights were stopped due to the Second World War and it became RAF Haifa. The RAF station closed in 1948 and the airport re-opend as Haifa Airport.

Operational units

*No. 6 Squadron RAF detachment (1938-1939) Hawker Hardy
*No. 30 Squadron RAF detachment {1940) Bristol Blenheim
*No. 80 Squadron RAF (1941) Hawker Hurricane I
*No. 112 Squadron RAF detachment (1941) Curtiss Tomahawk I
*No. 142 Squadron RAF detachment (1918) Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2
*No. 144 Squadron RAF detachment (1919) de Havilland DH.9
*No. 208 Squadron RAF detachment (1941) Hawker Audax
*No. 213 Squadron RAF (1941) Hawker Hurricane I
*No. 260 Squadron RAF (1941) Hawker Hurricane I
*No. 261 Squadron RAF (1942) Hawker Hurricane I
*No. 450 Squadron RAAF (1941) Hawker Hurricane I
*No. 651 Squadron RAF (1948) Auster AOP6

References

* G G Jefford, "RAF Squadrons", second edition 2001, Airlife Publishing, UK, ISBN 1-84037-141-2.

ee also

*List of RAF stations


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