RAF Snailwell

File:RAF Snailwell 2005.jpg

Photograph of segment of taxiway remaining on the site of RAF Snailwell in December 2005, taken at grid reference looking roughly North East

Royal Air Force Snailwell or more simply RAF Snailwell is a former Royal Air Force station located near to the village of Snailwell, Cambridgeshire, located north of Newmarket, Suffolk, England.

History

• USAAF 347th Fighter Squadron

Operational Royal Air Force units and aircraft

• No. 56 Squadron RAF (1942) – Hawker Typhoon IA and IB.Template:Sfn
• No. 137 Squadron RAF (1942) – Westland Whirlwind I.Template:Sfn
• No. 152 (Hyderabad) Squadron RAF (1941) – Supermarine Spitfire IIA.Template:Sfn
• No. 168 Squadron RAF (1942) – Curtiss Tomahawk II.Template:Sfn
• No. 170 Squadron RAF (1943) – North American Mustang I.Template:Sfn
• No. 181 Squadron RAF (1943) – Hawker Typhoon IB.Template:Sfn
• No. 182 Squadron RAF (1943) – Hawker Typhoon IB.Template:Sfn
• No. 183 (Gold Coast) Squadron RAF (1943) – Hawker Typhoon IB.Template:Sfn
• No. 184 Squadron RAF (1943) – Hawker Hurricane IV.Template:Sfn
• No. 247 (China-British) Squadron RAF (1943) – Hawker Typhoon IB.Template:Sfn
• No. 268 Squadron RAF (1941) – Curtiss Tomahawk IIA.Template:Sfn
• No. 268 Squadron RAF (1942) – North American Mustang I.Template:Sfn
• No. 309 Polish Fighter-Reconnaissance Squadron (1943) – North American Mustang I.Template:Sfn
• No. 527 Squadron RAF (1944) – Hawker Hurricane IIB.Template:Sfn
• No. 613 (City of Manchester) Squadron RAuxAF (1943) – North American Mustang I.Template:Sfn

Units

Current use

The site has now returned to agriculture and paddocks.