Royal Air Force Sylt or more simply RAF Sylt is a former Royal Air Force station located near Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
The site was renamed from B.170 Westerland to RAF Sylt on 27 September 1945.
History
The following squadrons were posted here at some point:
No. 2 Squadron RAF No. 3 Squadron RAF No. 4 Squadron RAF No. 14 Squadron RAF No. 16 Squadron RAF No. 21 Squadron RAF No. 26 (South African) Squadron RAF No. 33 Squadron RAF No. 41 Squadron RAF No. 56 Squadron RAF No. 69 Squadron RAF No. 80 Squadron RAF No. 107 Squadron RAF No. 302 (City of Poznan) Polish Fighter Squadron No. 305 (Ziemia Wielkopolska) Polish Bomber Squadron No. 308 "City of Kraków" Polish Fighter Squadron No. 317 "City of Wilno" Polish Fighter Squadron No. 349 (Belgian) Squadron RAF No. 350 (Belgian) Squadron RAF No. 411 (Grizzly Bear) Squadron RCAF No. 412 (Falcon) Squadron RCAF No. 24 Armament Practice Camp RAF Training Squadron, RAF Sylt Armament Training Flight Armament Practice Station, Sylt: Target Towing Squadron with Gloster Meteor TT.8s Weapons Training Flight with de Havilland Vampire T.11s Station Flight with ASR Bristol Sycamore & a Avro Anson C.19
Current use This site is now Sylt Airport.
See also Royal Air Force Germany List of former Royal Air Force stations
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