RAF Meir
Royal Air Force Meir or more simply RAF Meir is a former Royal Air Force station located in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England.
The following units were here at some point:
- No. 1 Practice Flying Unit was formed here on 4 March 1940 and operated Hawker Hectors and Hawker Hinds until it was disbanded on 16 June 1940
- No. 5 Elementary Flying Training School RAF
- No. 16 Elementary Flying Training School RAF
- No. 28 Elementary and Reserve Flying Training School RAF
- No. 45 Gliding School RAF
- No. 632 Gliding School RAF
References
Citations
- ^ "Meir (Blythe Bridge) (Longton) (Stoke-on-Trent)". Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
- ^ Lake 1999, p. 158.
Bibliography
- Lake, A (1999). Flying units of the RAF. Shrewsbury: Airlife. ISBN 1-84037-086-6.