RAF Leeming
England — County: Yorkshire
About
RAF Leeming opened in 1940 between the Great North Road and the edge of the Yorkshire Dales and began the war as a No. 4 Group bomber station. From 1943 it became one of the stations of No. 6 Group, the Royal Canadian Air Force’s own bomber group, and for the rest of the war it was home to two Canadian squadrons, No. 427 “Lion” and No. 429 “Bison”, which flew Handley Page Halifaxes and later Avro Lancasters from the airfield.
Unlike most of its wartime contemporaries, Leeming never closed. After the war it served as a night-fighter base, flying Mosquitoes, Meteors and Javelins, then as a flying-training station, and from 1988 as an air-defence base for the Tornado F.3. It remains an active RAF station today.
Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust — Leeming and Wikipedia: RAF Leeming. The text is original and has been written from factual source material; no source text has been copied unless specifically quoted and attributed.
Home to
- No. 427 Squadron (Lion) — 6 Group
- No. 429 Squadron (Bison) — 6 Group
People connected to this base
34 persons cross-referenced to this airfield — through a posting here, a squadron based here, or aircrew who flew from it.
| Name | Rank | Connection | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beach, Roy Bernard | Warrant Officer Class II | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Bissett, Jack Montgomery | Squadron Leader | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Bowly, Keith Hamilton | unknown | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Clapham, William Paterson | Flight Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Clowes, John William | unknown | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Corbally, Joseph Charles | Pilot Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Dawson, Ronald | Aircraftman 2nd Class | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Dougall, John | unknown | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Finlay, Donald David | unknown | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Finlay, Douglas | unknown | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Gourdeau, Arthur Edgar Emile | Flying Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Hall, John Cecil | unknown | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Hall, William Churchill | Pilot Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Hammond, Douglas William | Flying Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Hawkes, Lloyd Mac | Pilot Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Hergott, Gerard Albert | Pilot Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Holloway, Vincent Sydney | Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Laird, George Johnstone | Squadron Leader | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Leclaire, Joseph Jacques H. Guy | Flying Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| McMahon, William | Aircraftman 2nd Class | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| McPhee, Walter Norval | Flying Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Moffat, James | Flying Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Morrison, John | Flying Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Myers, John William Arthur | unknown | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Shannon, Robert Albert | Flying Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Sharp, S C | unknown | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Shoener, Kenneth Frank | Warrant Officer Class II | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Smith, Lloyd Henry | Pilot Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Soeder, William Ernest Paul | Flying Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Stainton, Arthur John | Flight Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| White, Robert John | Flying Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Williams, Alfred Thomas | Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Wilson, James Henry | Flying Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Zulauf, Franklin Roy | Flying Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |