RAF St Mawgan / Trebelzue
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RAF St Mawgan in Cornwall grew out of the small pre-war Trebelzue airfield near Newquay, which was expanded and renamed during the war as a Coastal Command and transatlantic ferry station. After the war it became a major maritime-patrol base, flying Avro Shackletons and then Hawker Siddeley Nimrods, and later a Sea King search-and-rescue training base. The runway is now Cornwall Airport Newquay, with the RAF keeping a reduced presence and a survival-training school on the remaining site.
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