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| RFC/RAF Feltwell - a tabulated history. | Airbase Loop article 4 |
| Prepared by Richard Simpson (Research Assistant Dept of Aviation Records RAF Museum) in 1980. |
| No 7 Training Depot Sqn | SE5 DH4 DH9 Avro 504A Avro 504J BE2e Sopwith Pup |
1917 Nov-1919 |
| Midland Area Flying Instructors School | Avro 504 | 1919-1919 |
| Station closed | 1919 | |
| Station reopened | 1937 March 12 | |
| No 37 Sqn | Harrow | 1937 April-1939 May |
| No 214 Sqn | Harrow | 1937 April-1939 July |
| No 37 Sqn | Wellington I | 1939 May-1940 Nov |
| No 214 Sqn | Wellington I | 1939 May-1939 Sept |
| No 75 (New Zealand) Sqn (Reformed here from RNZAF Heavy Bomber Flt) | Wellington I | 1940 April-1942 Aug |
| No 57 Sqn | Wellington I Wellington II |
1940 Nov-1942 Jan |
| No 487 (RNZAF) Sqn | Ventura | 1942 Aug-1943 April |
| No 464 (RAAF) Sqn | Ventura | 1942 Sept-1943 April |
| No 192 Sqn (Radio Countermeasures Unit) |
Wellington X Mosquito IV Halifax V |
1943 April-1943 Nov |
| Bomber Development Unit | Various | 1943 April-1943 Sept |
| No 1473 RCM Flt | ? | 1943 Sept-1943 |
| No 3 Lancaster Finishing School | Lancaster | 1943 Nov-1945 Jan |
| Gee-H Training Flt | Lancaster | 1944 Dec-1945 |
| Bomber Development Unit | Various | 1945 Feb-1946 |
| No 1688 Bomber Defence Training Flt (RAF Regt unit) | - | 1945 Feb-1945 |
| No 3 Flying Training School | Tiger Moth Harvard Prentice Provost |
1946 April-1949 1946 April-194(?) 19417)-1954 1954-1958 April |
| RAF Strategic Missile Base | Thor IRBM | 1958 Sept-1963 Aug |
| No 77 Sqn | Thor IRBM | 1958 Sept-1963 July |
| Bomber Command Strategic Missile School | - | 1958-1963 |
| Transfered to Tec Train Command | 1963 Aug | |
| No further use by operational or flying training units | ||
| Station still active | ||
Notes
| HRH KG VI visit | 1940 May 26 |
| Boulton & Paul presented a cedar wood church for Royal visit | |
| Feltwell bombers drop phosphorus strips in Black Forest hoping to start huge fires | 1940 June |
| Luftwaffe attack | 1940 Oct 27 |
| Luftwaffe attack | 1941 Feb 3 |
| Luftwaffe attack | 1941 March 1-2 |
| No 75 Sqn takes part in lO00 bomber raid on Cologne | 1942 May 30-31 |
| No 75 Sqn takes part in 1000 bomber raid on Bremen | 1942 June 25-26 |
| * No 37 Sqn | Wellington | 1939 Sept-1940 Nov |
| * No 214 Sqn | Wellington | 1939 Sept-1940 Feb |
| * No 75 Sqn | Wellington | 1940 April-1942 Aug |
| * No 57 Sqn | Wellington | 1940 Nov-1942 Sept |
| No 21 Sqn | Ventura | 1942 Oct-1943 March |
| * No 487 (RNZAF) Sqn | Ventura | 1942 Aug-1943 April |
| * No 464 (RAAF) Sqn | Ventura | 1942 Sept-1943 April |
| Lodger unit for | Horsa | 1943-1944 March |
| No 149 Sqn | Stirling Lancaster |
1944 May-1944 Sept 1944 Sept-1946 April |
| No 218 Sqn | Lancaster | 1944 Aug-1944 Dec |
| No 207 Sqn | Lancaster | 1945 Oct-1946 April |
| Care & Maintenance | 1946 Sept | |
| Back as satellite for Feltwell | 1946 Dec-1958 June | |
| ** Central Servicing Establishment | Various | 1955 |
| Closed |
Notes
* These units operated from Feltwell but were dispersed to Methwold
** Temp base while Watton runway repaired
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