RAF Ahlhorn

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52°53′6.8″N 8°13′57.8″E / 52.885222, 8.232722

Royal Air Force Station Ahlhorn
Active	?? – late 1950s
Country	Germany
Allegiance	UK: British Armed Forces
Branch	Royal Air Force
Type	Flying station
Part of	RAF Second Tactical Air Force
Based near	Ahlhorn, Lower Saxony, Germany
Nickname	"Ahlhorn"
Royal Air Force Ensign
March	Royal Air Force March Past

RAF Ahlhorn
IATA: none – ICAO: ETNA
Summary
Airport type		Military
Owner		formerly: Ministry of Defence, now: Bundeswehr
Operator		formerly: Royal Air Force, now: Bundeswehr
Location		Ahlhorn, Lower Saxony, Germany
Elevation AMSL		162 ft / 49 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
09/27			Asphalt

The former Royal Air Force Station Ahlhorn, commonly known as RAF Ahlhorn, was a Royal Air Force airbase in Germany situated in the southern suburbs of Ahlhorn, Lower Saxony.

Originally, it was a German airbase for Zeppelins. The RAF disestablished the station and it was closed down in the late 1950s ??.

Jagdgeschwader 71 of the German Luftwaffe were to take residence from June 1959 with 50 Canadair Sabres, Germany's first operational jet fighter unit. They remained at Ahlhorn until 1961. It is now known as Ahlhorn Air Base

[edit] RAF Ahlhorn squadrons & aircraft

Unit	Dates	Aircraft	Variant	Notes
No. 14 Squadron RAF	1957-1958	Hawker Hunter	F6
No. 16 Squadron RAF	1947	Hawker Tempest	F2
No. 20 Squadron RAF	1957-1958	Hawker Hunter	F6
No. 26 Squadron RAF	1947	Hawker Tempest	F2
No. 33 Squadron RAF	1947	Hawker Tempest	F2
No. 96 Squadron RAF	1952-1958	Gloster Meteor	NF11
No. 149 Squadron RAF	1954	English Electric Canberra	B2
No. 193 Squadron RAF	1945	Hawker Typhoon	1B
No. 197 Squadron RAF	1945	Hawker Typhoon	1B
No. 213 Squadron RAF	1956-1957	English Electric Canberra	B2
No. 256 Squadron RAF	1952-1958	Gloster Meteor	NF11
No. 263 Squadron RAF	1945	Hawker Typhoon	1B
No. 266 Squadron RAF	1945	Hawker Typhoon	1B
No. 302 Squadron RAF	1945 & 1946	Supermarine Spitfire	XIV
No. 308 Squadron RAF	1945 & 1946	Supermarine Spitfire	XIV
No. 317 Squadron RAF	1945 & 1946	Supermarine Spitfire	XVI

[edit] External links

• Ray Powells' memories of Ahlhorn

[edit] See also

• Jagdgeschwader 73
• Royal Air Force station
• List of RAF stations
• List of aircraft of the RAF

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