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Royal Air Force Bircotes or more simply RAF Bircotes is a former Royal Air Force satellite airfield located within South Yorkshire, England. Although it was named after the town of Bircotes which is in Nottinghamshire.

RAF Bircotes
Bircotes, Nottinghamshire in England
RAF Bircotes
Shown within South Yorkshire
Coordinates53°26′08″N 001°02′31″W
TypeSatellite Station
CodeBR[1]
Site information
OwnerAir Ministry
OperatorRoyal Air Force
Controlled byRAF Bomber Command
* No. 7 (T) Group RAF
* No. 93 (OTU) Group RAF[1]
Site history
Built1941 (1941)
In useNovember 1941 - July 1948 (1948)
Battles/warsEuropean theatre of World War II
Airfield information
Elevation34 metres (112 ft)[1] AMSL
Runways
Direction Length and surface
NW/SE 1,235 metres (4,052 ft) Grass
09/27 1,400 metres (4,593 ft) Grass
18/36 1,410 metres (4,626 ft) Grass

History


RAF Bircotes was located next the No. 1 Group RAF, RAF Bomber Command HQ at RAF Bawtry, Bawtry Hall, Bawtry, England. The airfield consisted of a grass strip with a connecting perimeter track with T2, B1 and Bessonneau hangars plus other miscellaneous buildings.[2]

The Airfield opened in late 1941 and was used by the Avro Ansons, Vickers Wellingtons, and Avro Manchesters from No. 25 Operational Training Unit RAF (OTU) at nearby RAF Finningley.[citation needed]

A variety of training units occupied the airfield including two operational Training units:[3]

The No. 1 Group Communication Flight RAF[3] from RAF Bawtry were also present at Bircotes from April 1941. The unit had moved from RAF Hucknall and at Bircotes the unit was using Miles Masters, Airspeed Oxfords, Miles Martinets, Curtiss Tomahawks and Westland Lysanders.[2][9]

Towards the end of the Second World War and afterwards a number of different units used the airfield such as No. 250 Maintenance Unit RAF (MU) which formed at the airfield while under the control of RAF Maintenance Command and No. 61 MU which absorbed No. 250 MU and used Bircotes as a sub site between 1944 and 1948.[2]


Current use


The airfield is currently farmland after being decommissioned on 13 July 1948 with little of the perimeter track left.[3]


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