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List of Royal Flying Corps airfields

The Royal Flying Corps was the air arm of the British Army before and during the First World War.

British Isles

France

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

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