RAF Peterborough

Royal Air Force Peterborough or more simply RAF Peterborough is a former Royal Air Force installation in Cambridgeshire located 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Peterborough city centre and 9.4 miles (15.1 km) southeast of Stamford, Lincolnshire, England.

RAF Peterborough
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire in England
RAF Peterborough
Shown within Cambridgeshire
Coordinates52°35′19″N 000°16′53″W
TypeRoyal Air Force installation
Site information
OwnerMinistry of Defence
OperatorRoyal Air Force
Site history
Built1932 (1932)
In use1932-1964 (1964)
Airfield information
Elevation24 metres (79 ft) AMSL

History

The following units were here at some point:[1]

  • No. 1 Aircraft Storage Unit RAF
  • No. 1 Pupil Pilots Pool RAF
  • No. 7 Flying Training School RAF
  • No. 7 (Pilots) Advancing Flying Unit RAF
  • No. 7 Service Flying Training School RAF
  • No. 17 Elementary Flying Training School RAF
  • No. 25 (Polish) Elementary Flying Training School RAF

Current use

The site is currently used for industrial work.[1]

gollark: ComputerCraft computers are pretty feature-complete with just the built-in software, so most "OS"es are just fancy GUIs.
gollark: * logs incidents to
gollark: Right now I'm actually working on a web UI for the system it logs "incidents", i.e. people uninstalling it, disk signature validation errors, banned programs being run, sort of thing.
gollark: It comprises thousands of lines of bizarrely written code which does... stuff, and things. It kind of works like a fuzz tester for emulators and stuff because it does bizarre exotic things it possibly shouldn't and exposes bugs in things.
gollark: One of my largest projects is an "OS"/arguably-virus for ComputerCraft called PotatOS.

See also

References
  1. "Peterborough II (Westwood)". Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
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