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RAF Castletown
RAF Castletown in Orkney + Shetland, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
RAF Castletown is a place of interest in Orkney + Shetland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Royal Air Force Castletown or more simply RAF Castletown, is a former Royal Air Force satellite station that operated during the Second World War. Built near to Castletown in Caithness, Scotland the station opened in 1940 and closed in 1945. Initially built to provide a base for fighter cover for the Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow, it later became an air-sea rescue base as well, before closing just after the end of the war in Europe.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
- Coordinates
- 58.5830, -3.3410
- Address
- Castletown, Caithness
- Established
- 1940
Sources
- wikidata: Q7275225 (CC0)
- wikipedia: RAF Castletown (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is RAF Castletown?
- RAF Castletown is in the Scottish Islands, United Kingdom.
- When was RAF Castletown built?
- Built or established in 1940.
- Who owns RAF Castletown?
- RAF Castletown is owned by Royal Air Force.