RAF Madley

RRN Madley RAF Maldey
IATA: none – ICAO: none
Summary
Airport type	Military
Operator	Royal Air Force
Location	Madley
Coordinates
Map
RAF Madley is located in Herefordshire RAF Madley Location in Herefordshire
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 00/00 0 0 Concrete 00/00 0 0 Concrete 00/00 0 0 Concrete

RAF Madley was an RAF airfield situated in Herefordshire, England.

The site opened as a training centre for aircrew and ground wireless operators on 27 August 1941. In 1943, the grass airfield was reinforced with Sommerfeld Tracking and the centre's population rose to about 5,000. The site was visited in 1944 prior to D-Day by US General George S. Patton, and later by Rudolf Hess (who had been held prisoner near Abergavenny) on his way to the Nuremberg Trials in 1946.

Units posted here

• No. 26 Squadron RAF detachment during 1942 using the North American Mustang I

Current use

Today only a few hangars remain, and Madley Communications Centre now occupies part of the site.

File:MadleySateliteEarthStation(PhilipHalling)Apr2006.jpg

Madley Communications Centre earth satellite tracking station

See also

• List of former Royal Air Force stations

External links

• MESC-RAF History