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Year built
  
1941

In use
  
1941-1945

Owner
  
Air Ministry

RAF Bolt Head

Type
  
Battles/wars
  
European Theatre of World War II

Address
  
South Devon Area Of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), Start Bay Caravan Club Site, Malborough, Kingsbridge TQ7 3DR, UK

Similar
  
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Royal Air Force Bolt Head or more simply RAF Bolt Head is a former Royal Air Force grass airfield 1 mile (1.6 km) south west of Salcombe on the south Devon coast, England from 1941 to 1945. During the Second World War it was used as a satellite for RAF Exeter. There were two runways, of 3,680 ft at 45° and 4,200 ft at 120°

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The Ground Control Interceptor Station, (GCI) RAF Hope Cove. was established nearby in 1941 to direct fighter operations in the English Channel.

Today the World War II buildings are almost all gone but a memorial to the airfield's war-time history exists in the centre of the site, two notable post-war buildings survive including a large R6 Rotor bunker (used until 1994 as a Regional Seat of Government) and a grass airstrip is still used occasionally by light aircraft. The landowners also hosted an air display there in 2009 which saw a Hurricane and Spitfire visit the airfield for the first time since the war.

Raf bolt head 3rd may 2009


RAF units and aircraft

The following units were here at some point:

  • No. 10 Group Communications Flight
  • No. 2704 Squadron RAF Regiment
  • No. 2715 Squadron RAF Regiment
  • No. 2738 Squadron RAF Regiment
  • During the Second World War, 17 personnel operating from RAF Bolt Head were killed in action or died on active service.

    References

    RAF Bolt Head Wikipedia


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