RAF Perranporth
About
RAF Perranporth was built on the cliffs of the north Cornwall coast and opened in 1941 as a Fighter Command station in No. 10 Group. A long succession of squadrons — British, Polish, Czech, French, Canadian and Australian — flew Supermarine Spitfires from it on convoy protection and offensive sweeps over the south-west and the western Channel. Flying ended in 1946, but the airfield survives as a busy general-aviation field, home to a gliding school.
Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including Perranporth — Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust and RAF Perranporth — Wikipedia. The text is original and has been written from factual source material; no source text has been copied unless specifically quoted and attributed.
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