RAF Celle

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52°35′39.9″N 10°1′29.9″E / 52.594417, 10.024972

Royal Air Force Station Celle
Active	?? 1940s – late 1956
Country	Germany
Allegiance	UK: British Armed Forces
Branch	Royal Air Force
Type	Flying station
Part of	RAF Second Tactical Air Force
Based near	Celle, Lower Saxony, Germany
Nickname	"Celle"
Royal Air Force Ensign
March	Royal Air Force March Past
Equipment	de Havilland Mosquito

RAF Celle
IATA: ZCN – ICAO: ETHC
Summary
Airport type		Military
Owner		formerly: Ministry of Defence, now: Bundeswehr
Operator		formerly: Royal Air Force, now: Bundeswehr
Location		Celle, Lower Saxony, Germany
Elevation AMSL		129 ft / 39 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
08/26	6,007	1,831	Asphalt

The former Royal Air Force Station Celle, more commonly known as RAF Celle, was a Royal Air Force airbase in Germany, situated in the south-western suburbs of Celle, Lower Saxony. RAF Celle was also known as "Wietzenbruch airbase", probably due to its very close proximity to Wietzenbruch

The RAF disestablished the station and it was closed down in the late 1950s. At some time afterwards, the British Army moved in, and called it "Taunton Barracks Celle".

Celle was returned to the German governement, and the site is now controlled by the German Bundeswehr (Federal Defence Force). Celle is now the "Celle Air Base", and home to the German Army Aviators Corps "Army Aviators Liaison and Reconnaissance Helicopter Squadron 100" and "Training Centre C (flying instruction)".

Contents 1 Celle squadrons 2 RAF units and aircraft 3 References 4 External links 5 See also

[edit] Celle squadrons

• No. 4 Squadron RAF; de Havilland Mosquito FB6
• No. 16 Squadron RAF;
• No. 98 Squadron RAF; de Havilland Mosquito B35
• No. 51 Squadron RAF Regiment
• 226 Signal Squadron Royal Corps of Signals

[edit] RAF units and aircraft

Unit	Dates	Aircraft	Variant	Notes
No. 2 Squadron RAF	1945	Supermarine Spitfire	XIV	Based twice
No. 2 Squadron RAF	1946	Supermarine Spitfire	PR19
No. 4 Squadron RAF	1945	Hawker Typhoon	FR 1B
No. 11 Squadron RAF	1949-1950	de Havilland Mosquito	FB6
No. 14 Squadron RAF	1949-1950	de Havilland Mosquito	B35
No. 16 Squadron RAF	1945-1946	Supermarine Spitfire	XIX, XIV and XVI
No. 16 Squadron RAF	1950-1955	de Havilland Vampire	FB5
No. 16 Squadron RAF	1954-1957	de Havilland Venom	FB1
No. 41 Squadron RAF	1945	Supermarine Spitfire	XIV
No. 93 Squadron RAF	1950-1952	de Havilland Vampire	FB5
No. 94 Squadron RAF	1950-1954	de Havilland Vampire	FB5
No. 94 Squadron RAF	1954-1957	de Havilland Venom	FB1
No. 98 Squadron RAF	1949-1950	De Havilland Mosquito	B35
No. 130 Squadron RAF	1945	Supermarine Spitfire	XIV
No. 137 Squadron RAF	1945	Hawker Typhoon	1B
No. 145 Squadron RAF	1952-1954	de Havilland Vampire	FB5
No. 145 Squadron RAF	1954-1957	de Havilland Venom	FB1
No. 268 Squadron RAF	1945	Supermarine Spitfire	XIVe	Based twice
No. 350 Squadron RAF	1945	Supermarine Spitfire	XIV
No. 414 Squadron RAF	1945	Supermarine Spitfire	XIV
No. 486 Squadron RAF	1945	Hawker Tempest	V
No. 652 Squadron RAF	1946	Auster V

[edit] References

• Document AIR 55/108: Operation "Plainfare": a short history of RAF Celle, 1949 from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

[edit] External links

• 98 Sqn Mosquito TJ138 at RAF Museum, Hendon
• Photo gallery of Celle from ServicePals
• History of 51 Sqn RAF Regiment

[edit] See also

• Royal Air Force station
• List of aircraft of the RAF
• 40th Airlift Squadron
• Berlin Airlift

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