RAF Sylt

Royal Air Force Sylt or more simply RAF Sylt is a former Royal Air Force station located near Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

RAF Sylt B.170 Westerland
Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein in Germany
Site information
Type	Royal Air Force station
Owner	Air Ministry
Operator	Royal Air Force
Controlled by	Royal Air Force Germany
Location
RAF Sylt Shown within Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Show map of Schleswig-Holstein RAF Sylt RAF Sylt (Germany) Show map of Germany
Coordinates	54°54′48″N 008°20′26″E
Site history
Built	1945 (1945)
In use	1945 - 16 October 1961 (1961)[1]
Fate	Handed over to the German Air Force
Airfield information
Elevation	16 metres (52 ft) AMSL
Runways Direction Length and surface 06/24  Asphalt 14/32  Asphalt

The site was renamed from B.170 Westerland to RAF Sylt on 27 September 1945.^[2]

History

The following squadrons were posted here at some point:

• No. 2 Squadron RAF^[3]
• No. 3 Squadron RAF^[4]
• No. 4 Squadron RAF^[4]
• No. 14 Squadron RAF^[5]
• No. 16 Squadron RAF^[6]
• No. 21 Squadron RAF^[7]
• No. 26 (South African) Squadron RAF^[8]
• No. 33 Squadron RAF^[9]
• No. 41 Squadron RAF^[10]
• No. 56 Squadron RAF^[11]
• No. 69 Squadron RAF^[12]
• No. 80 Squadron RAF^[13]
• No. 107 Squadron RAF^[14]
• No. 302 (City of Poznan) Polish Fighter Squadron^[15]
• No. 305 (Ziemia Wielkopolska) Polish Bomber Squadron^[16]
• No. 308 "City of Kraków" Polish Fighter Squadron^[16]
• No. 317 "City of Wilno" Polish Fighter Squadron^[17]
• No. 349 (Belgian) Squadron RAF^[18]
• No. 350 (Belgian) Squadron RAF^[18]
• No. 411 (Grizzly Bear) Squadron RCAF^[19]
• No. 412 (Falcon) Squadron RCAF^[19]
• No. 24 Armament Practice Camp RAF^[2]
• Training Squadron, RAF Sylt^[2]
• Armament Training Flight^[1]
• Armament Practice Station, Sylt:^[1]
  • Target Towing Squadron with Gloster Meteor TT.8s
  • Weapons Training Flight with de Havilland Vampire T.11s
  • Station Flight with ASR Bristol Sycamore & a Avro Anson C.19

Modern day image of the airfield

Current use

This site is now Sylt Airport.

See also

• Royal Air Force Germany
• List of former Royal Air Force stations