RAF Snailwell

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Photograph of segment of taxiway remaining on the site of RAF Snailwell in December 2005, taken at grid reference TL 652 668 looking roughly North East

RAF Snailwell, Cambridgeshire, located 3 miles North of Newmarket, Suffolk. Also known as Station 361 of the USAAF. The site has now returned to agriculture and paddocks.

[edit] Units

• Royal Air Force 268 Squadron
• Army Cooperation Command
• US 41st Base Complement Squadron
• 51st Service Squadron
• 9th USAAF 350th and 347th Fighter Group (P39 Airacobras)
• RAF 137 and 56 Squadrons
• 309 (Polish) Squadron
• RAF (Belgian) Initial Training School
• 1426 Enemy Aircraft Flight (captured Luftwaffe aircraft)

[edit] Operational Royal Air Force units and aircraft

• No. 56 Squadron RAF (1942) - Hawker Typhoon IA and IB
• No. 137 Squadron RAF (1942) - Westland Whirlwind I
• No. 152 Squadron RAF (1941) - Supermarine Spitfire IIA
• No. 168 Squadron RAF (1942) - Curtiss Tomahawk II
• No. 170 Squadron RAF (1943) - North American Mustang I
• No. 181 Squadron RAF (1943) - Hawker Typhoon IB
• No. 182 Squadron RAF (1943) - Hawker Typhoon IB
• No. 183 Squadron RAF (1943) - Hawker Typhoon IB
• No. 184 Squadron RAF (1943) - Hawker Hurricane IV
• No. 247 Squadron RAF (1943) - Hawker Typhoon IB
• No. 268 Squadron RAF (1941) - Curtiss Tomahawk IIA
• No. 268 Squadron RAF (1942) - North American Mustang I
• No. 309 Squadron RAF (1943) - North American Mustang I
• No. 527 Squadron RAF (1944) - Hawker Hurricane IIB
• No. 613 Squadron RAF (1943) - North American Mustang I

Coordinates: 52.27453° N 0.41992° E