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A list of Airfields of the Royal Flying Corps.

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France

  • Saint-Omer, France 1914–1918 (Headquarters) - now Saint-Omer Wizernes Airport and site of British Air Services Memorial
  • Candas No 2 Aircraft Depot (2AD) formed 13.12.15 - Spring 1918
  • Fienvillers No 2 Aeroplane Supply Depot (2ASD) formed 1.11.17
  • Rang-du-Fliers 2AD moved after German Spring Offensive
  • St Andre aux Bois/Verton 2ASD moved after German Spring Offensive
  • Saint-Léger-lès-Authie
  • Sombrin (Vaulx-Vraucourt)

    • Canada

    The Royal Flying Corps Canada was established by the RFC in 1917 to train aircrew in Canada. Air stations were established in southern Ontario at the following locations:

  • Camp Borden 1917–1918
  • Armour Heights Field 1917–1918 (pilot training, School of Special Flying to train instructors)
  • Leaside Aerodrome 1917–1918 (Artillery Cooperation School)
  • Long Branch Aerodrome 1917–1918
  • Curtiss School of Aviation (flying-boat station with temporary wooden hangar on the beach at Hanlan's Point on Toronto Island 1915–1918; main school, airstrip and metal hangar facilities at Long Branch)
  • Camp Rathbun, Deseronto 1917–1918 (pilot training)
  • Camp Mohawk (now Tyendinaga (Mohawk) Airport) 1917-1918 – located at the Tyendinaga Indian Reserve (now Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory) near Belleville 1917–1918 (pilot training)
  • Hamilton (Armament School) 1917–1918
  • Beamsville Camp (School of Aerial Fighting) 1917-1918 - located at 4222 Saan Road in Beamsville, Ontario; hangar remains and property now used by Global Horticultural Incorporated

    • Other locations

  • Ismailia, Egypt (training - No. 57 TS, 32 (Training) Wing HQ) - now Al Ismailiyah Air Base
  • Aboukir, Egypt 1916–1918 (training - No. 22 TS & No. 23 TS, 20 (Training) Wing HQ)
  • Abu Sueir, Egypt 1917-1918 (training - No. 57 TS & No. 195 TS) - now Abu Suwayr Air Base, also used by RAF during World War II
  • El Ferdan, Egypt (training – No. 17 TDS)
  • El Rimal, Egypt 1917-1918 (training – No. 19 TDS) - later as RAF El Amiriya and now abandoned (after World War II)
  • Camp Taliaferro, North Texas, USA 1917–1918 (training) - sites now either residential development or commercial/industrial parks

    • References

    Royal Flying Corps airfields Wikipedia
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