RAF Linton-on-ouse
England — County: Yorkshire
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B J Daventry, Royal Air Force official photographer, June 1940 (IWM CH 222) — Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk Vs of No. 58 Squadron RAF being prepared for a sortie at Linton-on-Ouse (via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)About
RAF Linton-on-Ouse opened in May 1937 about ten miles north-west of York, one of the substantial brick-built stations of the RAF Expansion Period. It served as a No. 4 Group bomber station from the outbreak of war — its Whitleys and later Halifaxes flown by squadrons including Nos. 58, 51, 76 and 78 — and from 1943 it became one of the eleven airfields of No. 6 Group, the Royal Canadian Air Force’s bomber group, home to RCAF units such as Nos. 408 and 426 Squadrons. In May 1941 the station was bombed by the Luftwaffe, an attack that killed thirteen men, the station commander among them.
After the war Linton-on-Ouse settled into a long career in flying training, reopening in 1957 as the home of No. 1 Flying Training School and turning out generations of pilots on the Jet Provost and later the Tucano. The station finally closed at the end of 2020.
Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust — Linton-on-Ouse and Wikipedia: RAF Linton-on-Ouse. The text is original and has been written from factual source material; no source text has been copied unless specifically quoted and attributed.
Photographs
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Daventry B J (Mr), Royal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_Armstrong_Whitworth_Whitley_Mk_V_of_No._58_Squadron_RAF_takes_off_on_a_night_sortie_from_Linton-on-Ouse,_Yorkshire,_June_1942._CH251.jpgView source & full licence →ⓘ licence & credit
Chris Heaton / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aircraft_Hangars_at_RAF_Linton-on-Ouse_-_now_closed_-_geograph.org.uk_-_7246671.jpgView source & full licence →ⓘ licence & credit
Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Handley-Page_Halifax_B.II_s.I_(35Sqn)_prepares_for_start,_Linton.jpgView source & full licence →ⓘ licence & credit
Daventry B J (Mr) : Royal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:58_Squadron_Whitley_at_RAF_Linton-on-Ouse_WWII_IWM_CH_226.jpgView source & full licence →Home to
- No. 408 Squadron (Goose) — 6 Group
- No. 426 Squadron (Thunderbird) — 6 Group
People connected to this base
20 persons cross-referenced to this airfield — through a posting here, a squadron based here, or aircrew who flew from it.
| Name | Rank | Connection | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bailey, Harry Russell | Flight Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Clark, Harold Alexander | Pilot Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Cracknell, Walter Charles | Flight Lieutenant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Cullen, Sidney Herman | Pilot Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Devoy, Alexander Gordon | Pilot Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Douglass, Robert Gordon Stewart | — | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Ferrier, Roy Wilson | Warrant Officer Class II | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Gauthier, Joseph Omer Romain | Flight Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Haycock, Roy Clifford | Pilot Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| McKinnon, Campbell Archibald | Flying Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Moosman, Milton Cecil | Warrant Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Orr, Hubert Francis | Pilot Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Ramsay, Ralph Carlton | Flight Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Robinson, Leroy Edward | Flying Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Ruzycki, Frank | Flight Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Sjoquist, Hubert Eric | — | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Stewart, Duncan Thomas | — | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Vincent, Henry John Vernon | — | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Wey, Edward George | Flight Lieutenant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Wride, Harold | Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |