Royal Air Force Bodorgan or more simply RAF Bodorgan is a former Royal Air Force satellite airfield located near to Bodorgan Hall on the Isle of Anglesey, Wales. The airfield was opened as RAF Aberffraw on 1 September 1940. Its named was changed to Bodrogan on 15 May 1941 and it was closed on 30 September 1945.[1]

RAF Bodorgan
Bodorgan, Isle of Anglesey in Wales
RAF Bodorgan Shown within Anglesey, Wales Show map of Anglesey RAF Bodorgan RAF Bodorgan (the United Kingdom) Show map of the United Kingdom
Coordinates	53°11′13″N 4°25′28″W
Site information
Owner	Air Ministry
Operator	Royal Air Force
Controlled by	RAF Maintenance Command
Site history
Built	1940 (1940)
In use	1940-1946 (1946)
Battles/wars	Second World War

Bodorgan initially had one Blister hangar, with two Bellman hangars added later. Accommodation for personnel was initially in tents, which were replaced by Nissen and Maycrete huts for accommodation, workshops and technical functions. The hangars were dismantled soon after the airfield closed, but some of the huts remain at the site.[1]

In 1942 the fields to the east of the airfield were used for the camouflaged storage of up to thirty Wellington bombers.[1]

The following units were here at some point:[2]

• ‘J’ Flight of No. 1 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit RAF (1 AACU) became No. 1606 (Anti-Aircraft Co-operation) Flight RAF
• ‘Z’ Flight 1 AACU became No. 1620 (Anti-Aircraft Co-operation) Flight RAF
• No. 6 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit RAF
• No. 8 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit RAF
• No. 48 Maintenance Unit RAF
• No. 577 Squadron RAF
• No. 650 Squadron RAF

See also

• List of Royal Air Force Satellite Landing Grounds

References