RAF Montrose
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RAF Montrose, on the Angus coast of Scotland, holds a special place in RAF history as the first operational military aerodrome established in Britain, in 1913. Between the wars and into the Second World War it was a flying-training station, home to a service flying training school and later an instructors’ school, where hundreds of pilots — among them noted aces and airmen of many nationalities — earned their wings on aircraft from Tiger Moths to Spitfires and Hurricanes. The station closed in 1952. Its rare early hangars survive, and part of the site is now the Montrose Air Station Heritage Centre.
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