RAF Catfoss

RAF Catfoss
RAF Catfoss on a target dosier of the german air force, 1941
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Summary
Airport type	Royal Air Force station
Owner	Ministry of Defence
Operator	Royal Air Force
Location	Brandesburton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
Built	1930
In use	1932 – 1945 1958 – 1963
Elevation AMSL	36 ft / 11 m
Coordinates	53°55′15″N 000°16′30″W / 53.92083°N 0.27500°W / 53.92083; -0.27500
Map
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Runways
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Royal Air Force Catfoss, or more simply RAF Catfoss, is a former Royal Air Force station during the Second World War. It was located 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Hornsea, East Riding of Yorkshire, England and 8 miles (13 km) north-east of Leconfield, East Riding of Yorkshire, with the nearest village being Brandesburton.

The airfield was opened in 1932 for an Armament Training Camp. A small number of fighters were posted there, at the start of the Second World War, before the airfield was rebuilt as a bomber station. It initially closed in November 1945, but re-opened in 1959 as a site for the PGM-17 Thor ballistic missile. It closed again in 1963.