RAF Cark  | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Royal Air Force station | ||||||||||||||||||
| Owner | Air Ministry | ||||||||||||||||||
| Operator | Royal Air Force | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Cark, Lancashire | ||||||||||||||||||
| Built | 1941 | ||||||||||||||||||
| In use | 1941-1945 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 17 ft / 5 m | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 54°09′45″N 002°57′30″W / 54.16250°N 2.95833°W | ||||||||||||||||||
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  RAF Cark Location in South Lakeland  RAF Cark Location in Lancashire | |||||||||||||||||||
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Royal Air Force Cark or more simply RAF Cark is a former Royal Air Force station in the county of Cumbria (formerly Lancashire) which was operational between 1941 and 1945. It was built near the villages of Cark and Flookburgh[1] on the Cartmel Peninsula which today forms part of Cumbria.[3]
- ^ a b "RAF Cark". Control Towers. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
- ^ "Cark (Flookburgh)". Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
- ^ "Cark". RonaldV. Retrieved 16 March 2018.