RAF Collyweston


RAF Collyweston is a former Royal Air Force satellite station located south west of Stamford, Lincolnshire and north east of Corby, Northamptonshire, England.
The airfield was a satellite station of RAF Wittering and used by the Enemy Aircraft Flight during the Second World War.

History

Founded in 1917 as No. 5 Training Depot Station, the station was renamed RAF Collyweston following formation of the Royal Air Force, via merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service on 1 April 1918. The airfield was absorbed as a satellite station of RAF Wittering in 1939.
In 1941 the runways of Wittering and Collyweston were joined together to make one 2-mile long, grass runway.