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Royal Air Force (RAF) Wratting Common is a former
Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the Air force, air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. It was formed towards the end of the World War I, First World War on 1 April 1918, on the merger of t ...
substation near
Newmarket, Suffolk Newmarket is a market town and civil parish in the West Suffolk (district), West Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, 14 miles west of Bury St Edmunds and 14 miles northeast of Cambridge. In 2021, it had a population of 16,772. It is a global ...
, England.


Units

The following units were here at some point: * No. 24 Heavy Glider Maintenance Section *
No. 90 Squadron RAF No. 90 Squadron RAF (sometimes written as No. XC Squadron) is a squadron of the Royal Air Force. History World War I No. 90 Squadron was formed as a fighter squadron of the Royal Flying Corps at Shawbury in Shropshire on 8 October 1917, mo ...
between May and October 1943 with the
Short Stirling The Short Stirling was a British four-engined heavy bomber of the Second World War. It has the distinction of being the first four-engined bomber to be introduced into service with the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the war (the earlier Handley ...
III and the
Avro Lancaster The Avro Lancaster, commonly known as the Lancaster Bomber, is a British World War II, Second World War heavy bomber. It was designed and manufactured by Avro as a contemporary of the Handley Page Halifax, both bombers having been developed to ...
s I and III * No. 195 Squadron RAF between November 1944 and August 1945 with the Lancasters I and III * No. 116 Storage Sub Site of
No. 273 Maintenance Unit RAF The following is a list of Royal Air Force Maintenance Units (MU). The majority of MUs were previously Equipment Depots (ED), Storage Depots (SD) and Aircraft Storage Units (ASU)s. No. 1 MU – No. 100 MU No. 101 MU – No. 200 MU No. ...
between July 1946 and September 1947 * No. 2 Section of No. 1552 Radio Aids Training Flight between March and July 1946 * No. 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit RAF between November 1943 and November 1944


References

;Citations ;Bibliography * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wratting Common Royal Air Force stations of World War II in the United Kingdom Wratting Common Military airbases established in 1943 Military airbases closed in 1946