RAF Bodorgan No. 15 SLG | |
Ensign: | Ensign of the Royal Air Force.svg |
Ensign Size: | 90px |
Location: | Bodorgan, Isle of Anglesey |
Country: | Wales |
Type: | Satellite Landing Ground |
Pushpin Map: | Wales Anglesey#UK |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Shown within Anglesey, Wales |
Pushpin Label: | RAF Bodorgan |
Ownership: | Air Ministry |
Operator: | Royal Air Force |
Controlledby: | RAF Maintenance Command |
Used: | 1940- |
Battles: | European theatre of World War II |
R1-Number: | NNE/SSQ |
R1-Length: | 1000yard |
R1-Surface: | Grass |
R2-Number: | E/W |
R2-Length: | 1000yard |
R2-Surface: | Grass |
R3-Number: | WSW/ENE |
R3-Length: | 960yard |
R3-Surface: | Grass |
Royal Air Force Bodorgan, or more simply RAF Bodorgan, is a former Royal Air Force satellite airfield located near to Bodorgan Hall on the Isle of Anglesey, Wales. The airfield was opened as RAF Aberffraw on 1 September 1940. Its named was changed to Bodorgan on 15 May 1941, and it was closed on 30 September 1945.
Bodorgan initially had one Blister hangar, with two Bellman hangars added later. Accommodation for personnel was initially in tents, which were replaced by Nissen and Maycrete huts, for accommodation, workshops and technical functions. The hangars were dismantled soon after the airfield closed, but some of the huts remain at the site.
In 1942 the fields to the east of the airfield were used for the camouflaged storage of up to thirty Vickers Wellington medium bomber aircraft.
The following units were here at some point:[1]