i was thinking the other day about when the RAF had a base here in little old Hereford.. the same base is now home to the SAS.. i can not remember the year the RAF left.. but it is some time ago now.. it ended its days as a catering school for RAF cooks and the like… but i have heard that Credenhill at one time was a active airbase, not front line obviosly. i would love to know what sort of aircraft and units was based here and when did the last aircraft unit leave… as it only had a grass air strip i would have thought it was a long time ago… saying that in a way it still is a active airbase.. there are several A-109s and Gazelles based there now….. but i mean in the RAF days…… 🙂
By: Plazz - 18th June 2006 at 21:05
I live behind the SAS camp and helicopter traffic goes on daily including weekends!
Usual stuff includes Lynx, Puma’s, Gazelles and the odd Apache. The Merlin is starting to become more common place now as well, might your friend have mistaken these as big Russian helicopters I wonder?
Plazz
By: sea vixen - 18th June 2006 at 09:04
thank you for the imformation.. very helpful… a friend of mine who lives in Credenhill.. told me the other day that 2 Apaches flew into the camp recently and a few days later “his own words” 2 large Russian type helicopters, he could not say what sort they was… he may have been wrong.. but he is pretty good on his helicopters.. he tells me it gets a bit annoying sometimes with all the copter traffic in and out of the base…. :rolleyes:
By: Thunderbird167 - 17th June 2006 at 12:31
RAF CREDENHILL
RAF Credenhill,, situated North West of Hereford, opened and housed No: 11 School of Technical Training in June 1940. It then supported at various times the RAF Secretarial Branch, the RAF Equipment Officers School, No: 1 School of General Service Training, the RAF School of Administrative Training and until 1985, No: 1 School of Catering until that moved to Aldershot. From March 1974 until 1982 it housed the WRAF School of Recruit Training, then in 1983 the camp saw the formation of the Youth Training Squadron (YTS). In all the time RAF Credenhill had been used, and despite the presence of its hangers, it has never housed an airstrip. In 1994 the YTS closed and the Army bought the site. After 22 SAS Regiment had obtained funding to develop the site, extensive rebuilding which started in 1997 took place. 22 SAS finally moved into Credenhill in May 1999.
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