RAF Wyton

RAF Wyton
RAF Wyton
Near St Ives, Cambridgeshire in England
	Canberra PR9 'XH170' which is RAF Wyton's gate guardian
	Verum Exquiro; (Latin for 'Seek the Truth')
	RAF Wyton Shown within Cambridgeshire
Coordinates	52°21′26″N 000°06′28″W / 52.35722°N 0.10778°W
Type	Royal Air Force station
Site information
Owner	Ministry of Defence
Operator	Royal Air Force
Controlled by	Strategic Command
Condition	Operational
Website	www.raf.mod.uk/rafwyton
Site history
Built	1915
In use	1916 – present
Garrison information
Current; commander	Wing Commander Jim Doyle
Occupants	National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence; 42 Engineer Regiment (Geographic); Defence Infrastructure Organisation; Defence Assurance and Information Security; Defence Intelligence Estates Rationalisation Team; RAF Wyton Area Voluntary Band;
Airfield information
Identifiers	IATA: QUY, ICAO: EGUY, WMO: 03566
Elevation	40.2 metres (132 ft) AMSL
Runways
08/26	799 metres (2,621 ft) Grass
	Source: RAF Wyton Defence Aerodrome Manual

Royal Air Force Wyton or more simply RAF Wyton (IATA: QUY, ICAO: EGUY) is a Royal Air Force station near St Ives, Cambridgeshire, England. The airfield is decommissioned and the station is now under the command of UK Strategic Command.

RAF Wyton is home to the National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence (NCGI), which provides Open Source Intelligence (OSINT).and Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) support to HM Armed Forces. It also contains the Ministry of Defence Police Headquarters, the Defence Infrastructure Organisation Regional Headquarters, 42 Engineer Regiment (Geographic), and several other UK and Allied capabilities, authorities, and departments.^[3]

Located within the station, the Pathfinder Building is described as the "operations centre of Defence Intelligence" and the “largest Top Secret, Five-Eyes by design, military intelligence fusion and assessment facility in the world."^[4]^[5]^[6]

^ Pine, L.G. (1983). A dictionary of mottoes (1 ed.). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 249. ISBN 0-7100-9339-X.
^ "RAF Wyton Defence Aerodrome Manual (DAM)" (PDF). RAF Wyton. Military Aviation Authority. 31 March 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 August 2017. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
^ "RAF Wyton | Royal Air Force". 24 May 2024.
^ Nicholls, Dominic (8 February 2024). "RAF Wyton: Inside the 'jewel in the crown of British Defence Intelligence'". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
^ "Inside the UK's top-secret spy base preparing for war". Sky News. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
^ Sengupta, Kim (8 February 2024). "Drones, missiles and white Russian horses: The UK intelligence agency you haven't heard of". The Independent. Retrieved 24 May 2024.

[1] Pine, L.G. (1983). A dictionary of mottoes (1 ed.). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 249. ISBN 0-7100-9339-X.

[2] "RAF Wyton Defence Aerodrome Manual (DAM)" (PDF). RAF Wyton. Military Aviation Authority. 31 March 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 August 2017. Retrieved 27 August 2017.

[:1-3] "RAF Wyton | Royal Air Force". 24 May 2024.

[:2-4] Nicholls, Dominic (8 February 2024). "RAF Wyton: Inside the 'jewel in the crown of British Defence Intelligence'". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 24 May 2024.

[5] "Inside the UK's top-secret spy base preparing for war". Sky News. Retrieved 24 May 2024.

[:3-6] Sengupta, Kim (8 February 2024). "Drones, missiles and white Russian horses: The UK intelligence agency you haven't heard of". The Independent. Retrieved 24 May 2024.

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