RAF Bodorgan

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.[2]

RAF Bodorgan No. 15 SLG RAF Aberffraw
Bodorgan, Isle of Anglesey in Wales
RAF Bodorgan Shown within Anglesey, Wales Show map of Anglesey RAF Bodorgan RAF Bodorgan (the United Kingdom) Show map of the United Kingdom
Coordinates	53°11′13″N 4°25′28″W
Type	Satellite Landing Ground
Site information
Owner	Air Ministry
Operator	Royal Air Force
Controlled by	RAF Maintenance Command
Site history
Built	1940 (1940)
In use	1940-1946 (1946)
Battles/wars	European theatre of World War II
Airfield information
Runways Direction Length and surface NNE/SSQ 1,000 yards (914 m) Grass[1] E/W 1,000 yards (914 m) Grass WSW/ENE 960 yards (878 m) Grass

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.[2]

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.[2]

The following units were here at some point:[3]

• ‘J’ Flight of No. 1 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit RAF (1 AACU) (September 1940 - November 1942)[4] became No. 1606 (Anti-Aircraft Co-operation) Flight RAF (November 1942 - April 1945)[5]
• ‘Z’ Flight, 1 AACU (October 1940 - November 1942)[4] became No. 1620 (Anti-Aircraft Co-operation) Flight RAF (November 1942 - December 1943)[5]
• Detachment of No. 6 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit RAF (March 1941 - February 1942)[4]
• Detachment of No. 8 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit RAF (May - November 1943)[6]
• No. 48 Maintenance Unit RAF (April 1941 - November 1944)[7]
• Detachment of No. 577 Squadron RAF[8]
• No. 650 Squadron RAF (November 1944 - June 1945)[9]