RAF Peplow

RAF Peplow RNAS Peplow (HMS Godwit II / HMS Godwit)
Peplow, Shropshire in England
Aerial View of RAF Peplow (2024)
RAF Peplow Shown within Shropshire RAF Peplow RAF Peplow (the United Kingdom)
Coordinates	52°48′20″N 2°30′16″W
Type	Royal Air Force station Royal Naval Air Station
Site information
Owner	Air Ministry
Operator	Royal Air Force Royal Navy
Controlled by	RAF Flying Training Command Fleet Air Arm
Site history
Built	1940 (1940)
In use	1941-1945 (1945) (Royal Air Force) 1945-1949 (Royal Navy)
Airfield information
Runways Direction Length and surface 00/00  Concrete 00/00  Concrete 00/00  Concrete

Royal Air Force Peplow, or more simply RAF Peplow, is a former Royal Air Force located, located 7 miles (11 km) South of Market Drayton in Shropshire, England. It was operational between 1941 and 1949, being used by both the Royal Air Force (1942-1945) and the Royal Navy (1945–1947).

The following units were here at some point:

• No. 5 Service Flying Training School RAF
• No. 11 Service Flying Training School RAF
• No. 21 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit RAF
• No. 83 Operational Training Unit RAF
• 734 Naval Air Squadron
• 758 Naval Air Squadron
• 772 Naval Air Squadron
• 780 Naval Air Squadron
• 798 Naval Air Squadron
• No. 1515 (Beam Approach Training) Flight RAF

References

Bibliography

• Delve, Ken (2007). The Military Airfields of Britain Wales and West Midlands. Marlborough, Wiltshire UK: The Crowood Press Ltd. ISBN 978-1-86126-917-1.