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01 January 1991

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United States Bases
artdoc May=1991
House of Commons written answer 12.7.90 Cols. 337-338

Mr. Cryer: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what
is the total number of United States bases in the United
Kingdom; and if he will list them.

Mr. Archie Hamilton: The following 67 bases and
Facilities have been made available for use by United States
forces in the United Kingdom:

Main Operating Bases
RAF Alconbury
RAF Bentwaters
RAF Fairford(1)
RAF Lakenheath
RAF Mildenhall
RAF Upper Heyford
RAF Woodbridge

Cruise Missile Bases
RAF Greenham Common

Standby Deployment Bases
RAF Sculthorpe
RAF Wethersfield(2)

Storage/Support Facilities
RAF Bicester
RAF Brawdy
RAF Burtonwood
RAF Caerwent
RAF Chelveston
RAF Chilwell
Eastcote
Felixstowe
RAF Feltwell
Framlington High Wycombe Air Station (Daws Hill)
Holy Loch
RAF Hullavington
RAF Hythe
RAF Kemble
London USN Europe HQ
RAF Machrihanish
Marchwood
RAF Molesworth
Oakington
RAF Ruislip
RAF Spadeadam
RAF St. Mawgan
RAF Upwood
RAF Welford
RAF Watton

Contingency Wartime Hospitals
RAF Chessington
RAF Arbroath
RAF Kirknewton
RAF Lanark
RAF Little Rissington
RAF Locking
RAF Nocton Hall

Communications Facilities
Aberdeen
RAF Barford St. John
RAF Barkway
Botley Hill
Bovingdon
RAF Chicksands
Coldblow
Christmas Common
RAF Croughton
Daventry
Dunkirk
RAF Edzell
Great Bromley
RAF Inverbervie
RAF Kinnabeer
Latherton
Martlesham
Mormond Hill
Fork Murkle
RAF Swingate
RAF Thurso
RAF Uxbridge

NATO Armaments Depots
Broughton Moor
Glen Douglas

The following Royal Air Force and Procurement Executive
airfields, all of which have sufficient operating facilities
to enable them to fulfil their role, are allocated for use as
collocated operating bases by United States forces:

Collocated Operating Bases
Abingdon
Benson
Boscombe Down
Brawdy
Coltishall
Cottesmore
Finninglay
Odiham
Scampton
Waddington
Wittering

Notes
(1) RAF Fairford will become a Standby Deployment Base on 7
August 1990
(2) RAF Wethersfield will be returned to MOD control on 1
October 1990.


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