RAF Greenock

RAF Greenock was a Royal Air Force station in Greenock, Scotland from 1940 to 1945.[1][2][3]

RAF Greenock
Greenock, Inverclyde in Scotland
RAF Greenock
Shown within Inverclyde
Coordinates55°56′59″N 4°45′12″W
Site information
OwnerAir Ministry
OperatorRoyal Air Force
Controlled byRAF Coastal Command
Site history
Built1940 (1940)
In use1940-1945 (1945)
Battles/warsSecond World War

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, when a hangar and storage facility were hit, and several aircraft were destroyed.[4]

The following units were here at some point:[4]

  • No. 2 Flying Boat Servicing Unit
  • No. 97 Maintenance Unit RAF
  • No. 213 Maintenance Unit RAF

Supermarine Stranraers, Consolidated Catalinas and Short Sunderlands were maintained at the site.[4]

It ceased to be an RAF base in 1945 but continued in civilian use until 1950.[5]

As of 2012, the RAF Club Greenock is still open.[6]

References
  1. "Greenock, Flying Boat Maintenance Base | Canmore". canmore.org.uk.
  2. "Secret Scotland - RAF Greenock". www.secretscotland.org.uk.
  3. "Stations-G". www.rafweb.org.
  4. "Greenock". Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  5. "Royal Naval Air Stations of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945 Contents Page". December 6, 2017. Archived from the original on December 6, 2017.
  6. "RAF club in member drive". Greenock Telegraph.
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