RAF Woodvale

53.5817, -3.0556 — view on OpenStreetMap ↗

About

RAF Woodvale opened on the Lancashire coast near Southport in 1941, built as a night-fighter airfield for the defence of Liverpool after the worst of the blitz on the city. Polish and other Supermarine Spitfire squadrons flew from it, and it later saw a range of training and naval units. It has remained an active RAF training airfield since 1971, home to University Air Squadrons and a volunteer gliding squadron.

Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including RAF Woodvale — Wikipedia and Woodvale — Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. 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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ⓘ licence & creditHarvey Milligan / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RAF_Woodvale_(2).jpgView source & full licence →
ⓘ licence & creditJThomas / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perimeter_fence,_Woodvale_Airfield_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3985818.jpgView source & full licence →

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