RAF Sylt

Royal Air Force Sylt or more simply RAF Sylt is a former Royal Air Force station located near Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

The site was renamed from B.170 Westerland to RAF Sylt on 27 September 1945.

History

The following squadrons were posted here at some point:

• No. 2 Squadron RAF
• No. 3 Squadron RAF
• No. 4 Squadron RAF
• No. 14 Squadron RAF
• No. 16 Squadron RAF
• No. 21 Squadron RAF
• No. 26 (South African) Squadron RAF
• No. 33 Squadron RAF
• No. 41 Squadron RAF
• No. 56 Squadron RAF
• No. 69 Squadron RAF
• No. 80 Squadron RAF
• No. 107 Squadron RAF
• No. 302 (City of Poznan) Polish Fighter Squadron
• No. 305 (Ziemia Wielkopolska) Polish Bomber Squadron
• No. 308 "City of Kraków" Polish Fighter Squadron
• No. 317 "City of Wilno" Polish Fighter Squadron
• No. 349 (Belgian) Squadron RAF
• No. 350 (Belgian) Squadron RAF
• No. 411 (Grizzly Bear) Squadron RCAF
• No. 412 (Falcon) Squadron RCAF
• No. 24 Armament Practice Camp RAF
• Training Squadron, RAF Sylt
• Armament Training Flight
• Armament Practice Station, Sylt:
• Target Towing Squadron with Gloster Meteor TT.8s
• Weapons Training Flight with de Havilland Vampire T.11s
• Station Flight with ASR Bristol Sycamore & a Avro Anson C.19

Current use

This site is now Sylt Airport.

See also

• Royal Air Force Germany
• List of former Royal Air Force stations

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