RAF Gatow
Royal Air Force Gatow, or more commonly RAF Gatow, was a British Royal Air Force station in the district of Gatow in south-western Berlin, west of the Havel river, in the borough of Spandau.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Abandoned airfield
- Description: former Royal Air Force station and aerodrome near Berlin in Germany from 1945 to 1994
- Also known as: “Gatow” and “Royal Air Force Station Gatow”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Militärhistorisches Museum Flugplatz Berlin-Gatow and Waffenbrüder.
Militärhistorisches Museum Flugplatz Berlin-Gatow
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr – Flugplatz Berlin-Gatow is the Berlin branch of the Bundeswehr Military History Museum. The museum acts as an independent military department. Militärhistorisches Museum Flugplatz Berlin-Gatow is situated 400 metres southwest of RAF Gatow.
Waffenbrüder
Work of art
Photo: Oliver Pitzke, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Waffenbrüder is a work of art, which is situated 200 metres southwest of RAF Gatow.
Hans-Carossa-Oberschule
School
Photo: Dirk1981, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hans-Carossa-Oberschule is a school, which is situated 1 km west of RAF Gatow.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Groß Glienicke and Seeburg.
Groß Glienicke
Village
Groß Glienicke is a village located both in Berlin and Potsdam, the capital of the German state of Brandenburg. Until 2003, when it was merged into Potsdam, the Brandenburg—and main—side, was an autonomous municipality. Groß Glienicke is situated 3 km west of RAF Gatow.
Seeburg
Village
Photo: Hans G. Oberlack, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Seeburg is a village in the district of in Brandenburg, Germany. Since 2003 Seeburg is part of the municipality of Dallgow-Döberitz. Seeburg is situated 4½ km northwest of RAF Gatow.
Reinickendorf and Spandau
Photo: Southgeist, CC BY 3.0.
The northwest of Berlin consists of the boroughs of Spandau and Reinickendorf was urbanized in the 19th century. Before that, it largely consisted of small towns.
RAF Gatow
- Categories: air base, Royal Air Force station, and transportation
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Stadt, Berlin, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Tajik—“RAF Gatow” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “RAF Gatow”
- Chinese: “加图空军基地”
- Chinese: “加圖空軍基地”
- Czech: “Letiště Berlín-Gatow”
- Czech: “RAF Gatow”
- Danish: “Flugplatz Gatow”
- Danish: “RAF Gatow”
- Danish: “Royal Air Force Station Gatow”
- Dutch: “Flughafen Berlin-Gatow”
- Dutch: “RAF Gatow”
- Dutch: “Royal Air Force Station Gatow”
- French: “RAF Gatow”
- French: “Royal Air Force Station Gatow”
- German: “Flugplatz Berlin-Gatow”
- German: “Flugplatz Gatow”
- German: “RAF Gatow”
- German: “Royal Air Force Station Gatow”
- Hungarian: “RAF Gatow”
- Hungarian: “Royal Air Force Station Gatow”
- Indonesian: “RAF Gatow”
- Indonesian: “Royal Air Force Station Gatow”
- Japanese: “RAF Gatow”
- Japanese: “ガートウ飛行場”
- Japanese: “ガトウ空軍基地”
- Korean: “RAF Gatow”
- Korean: “가토 비행장”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “RAF Gatow”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Royal Air Force Station Gatow”
- Norwegian: “Gatow lufthavn”
- Persian: “RAF Gatow”
- Persian: “فرودگاه نیروی هوایی سلطنتی گاتو”
- Spanish: “RAF Gatow”
- Spanish: “Royal Air Force Station Gatow”
- Swedish: “Gatows flygplats”
- Swedish: “RAF Gatow”
- Swedish: “Royal Air Force Station Gatow”
- Tajik: “RAF Gatow”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи нерӯе ҳаво салтанате готу”
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