RAF Inverness

RAF Inverness
RAF Longman
Inverness, Highland
RAF Inverness
RAF Longman
Coordinates 57°29′24″N 4°13′30″W / 57.49°N 4.225°W / 57.49; -4.225
Type Royal Air Force station
Site information
Owner Air Ministry
Controlled by  Royal Air Force
Site history
Built 1940 (1940)
In use 1940-1945 (1945)
Battles/wars Second World War
Garrison information
Garrison RAF Fighter Command
Occupants No. 13 Group RAF

Royal Air Force station Inverness or RAF Inverness is a former Royal Air Force station located by the Moray Firth in Highland, Scotland. It was also known as RAF Longman.

Station history

Under the command of No. 13 (Fighter) Group, it hosted No. 70 (Signals) Wing Calibration Flight between 17 February 1941 and 25 August 1945.[1]

Operational Squadrons & Aircraft

UnitFromToAircraftVersionNotes
No. 241 Squadron RAFSep 1940Apr 1942Westland LysanderMK. IIFormed from 'A' Flight of 614 Squadron.
No. 289 Squadron RAF1 May 1939Sep 1939Avro Anson?
No. 309 Polish Fighter-Reconnaissance SquadronSupermarine SpitfireMk. I
No. 526 Squadron RAFJune 19431 May 1945Airspeed OxfordMK. IAbsorbed into 527 Squadron
No. 527 Squadron RAF1 May 19458 Nov 1945De Havilland Dominie
No. 598 Squadron RAF1 Dec 194312 Mar 1945Airspeed OxfordMk. II
No. 614 Squadron RAF 'A' flight8 Jun 19405 Mar 1941Westland LysanderMk. IIBecame 241 Squadron

Other units

  • HQ, No 70 (Signal) Wing Calibration Flight (17 Feb 1941 – 25 Aug 1945)
  • No. 14 Group Target Towing Flt (Oct 1941 - 8 Dec 1941)
  • No. 1 (Coastal) Engine Control Demonstration Unit (19 Oct - 17 Nov 1943)

Current use

The site is now in use as an industrial estate, which takes up most of the old runway and the rifle range that was also there. The Caledonian Stadium, home to Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C. sits roughly on where the runway ended, albeit, in the Moray Firth, as the base stretched to the then coastline which became reclaimed land in the decades following closure.

  1. ↑ RAFWeb.org (Retrieved 30 September 2009)
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