RAF Alconbury
Royal Air Force Alconbury, or more simply RAF Alconbury, is an active Royal Air Force station near Huntingdon, England, that for many years was used by the USAF.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Military installation
- Description: Royal Air Force station near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Alconbury Airfield”, “Alconbury Royal Air Force Base”, “AYH”, and “EGWZ”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include New Shire Hall and Little Stukeley War Memorial.
New Shire Hall
Government building
Photo: Stortford, CC BY-SA 4.0.
New Shire Hall is a municipal building on Emery Crescent, Alconbury Weald, Cambridgeshire, England, built in 2019–2020. It is the headquarters of Cambridgeshire County Council. New Shire Hall is situated 1 mile west of RAF Alconbury.
Little Stukeley War Memorial
Memorial
Photo: Fractal Angel, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Little Stukeley War Memorial is situated 3,500 feet southwest of RAF Alconbury.
The Old Chapel
Building
Photo: Fractal Angel, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Old Chapel is a building, which is situated 3,900 feet southwest of RAF Alconbury.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Little Stukeley and Great Stukeley.
Little Stukeley
Village
Little Stukeley is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of The Stukeleys, in Cambridgeshire, England. Little Stukeley lies approximately 3 miles north-west of Huntingdon.
Great Stukeley
Village
Great Stukeley is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of The Stukeleys. It is 1.8 miles north-west of Huntingdon. Great Stukeley is in Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as a historic county of England.
Sapley
Suburb
Photo: Simon Mortimer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sapley is a historic village in Cambridgeshire, now a suburb of Huntingdon. Sapley is situated 2½ miles southeast of RAF Alconbury.
RAF Alconbury
- Categories: Royal Air Force station, air base, and aerodrome
- Location: The Stukeleys, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.37426° or 52° 22′ 27″ northLongitude
-0.21859° or 0° 13′ 7″ westOpen location code
9C4X9QFJ+PHOpenStreetMap ID
node 29677584OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=militaryWikidata ID
Q564876
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“RAF Alconbury” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Alconbury Royal Air Force Base”
- Chinese: “奧爾康伯裏皇家空軍基地”
- Chinese: “奧爾康伯里皇家空軍基地”
- Chinese: “阿爾康伯里皇家空軍基地”
- Dutch: “RAF Alconbury”
- French: “AYH”
- French: “base aérienne militaire du Royaume-Uni”
- French: “RAF Abbots Ripton”
- French: “RAF Alconbury”
- German: “RAF Alconbury”
- German: “Royal Air Force Station Alconbury”
- Indonesian: “AYH”
- Indonesian: “EGWZ”
- Japanese: “アルコンバリー空軍基地”
- Japanese: “アルコンベリー空軍基地”
- Persian: “فرودگاه نیروی هوایی سلطنتی الکونبری”
- Swedish: “Alconbury Royal Air Force Base”
- Swedish: “RAF Alconbury”
- Ukrainian: “Алконбері (авіабаза)”
- Ukrainian: “Алконбері”
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