RAF Greenock was a

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station in

Greenock Greenock (; sco, Greenock; gd, Grianaig, ) is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council area in Scotland, United Kingdom and a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the west central Lowlands of ...

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from 1940 to 1945. RAF Greenock was created on 10 October 1940 as a maintenance base for RAF flying boats. Seaplanes had previously been used at the site in the 1930s. The base was hit on 7 May 1941 during the

Greenock Blitz The Greenock Blitz is the name given to two nights of intensive bombing of the town of Greenock, Scotland by the Nazi German '' Luftwaffe'' during the Second World War. The raids over the nights of the 6 and 7 May 1941 targeted the shipyards ...

, when a hangar and storage facility were hit, and several aircraft were destroyed. The following units were here at some point: * No. 2 Flying Boat Servicing Unit (September 1942 - 1945) * No. 97 Maintenance Unit RAF (August - October 1945) * No. 213 Maintenance Unit RAF (October 1945 - November 1947)

Supermarine Stranraer The Supermarine Stranraer is a flying boat designed and built by the British Supermarine Aviation Works company at Woolston, Southampton. It was developed during the 1930s on behalf of its principal operator, the Royal Air Force (RAF). It ...

s, Consolidated Catalinas and

Short Sunderland The Short S.25 Sunderland is a British flying boat patrol bomber, developed and constructed by Short Brothers for the Royal Air Force (RAF). The aircraft took its service name from the town (latterly, city) and port of Sunderland in North East ...

s were maintained at the site. It ceased to be an RAF base in 1945 but continued in civilian use until 1950. As of 2012, the RAF Club Greenock is still open.

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