RAF Finningley

RAF Finningley
Finningley, South Yorkshire in England
An RAF Hawker Siddeley Dominie T1 of No. 6 Flying Training School based at Finningley.
Usque ad coelum fines (Latin for 'Extending as far as the sky')
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Coordinates	53°28′47″N 001°00′39″W / 53.47972°N 1.01083°W / 53.47972; -1.01083
Grid reference	SK 663985
Type	Royal Air Force station Parent station
Code	FV[1]
Site information
Owner	Ministry of Defence
Operator	Royal Air Force
Controlled by	RAF Bomber Command 1936–47 & 1957–68 RAF Flying Training Command 1947–57 RAF Strike Command 1968–70 RAF Training Command 1970–76 RAF Support Command 1976–96
Condition	Closed
Site history
Built	1936 (1936)
In use	September 1936–1996 (1996)
Fate	Transferred to civilian use and became Doncaster Sheffield Airport.
Airfield information
Identifiers	IATA: FNY, ICAO: EGXI, WMO: 03360
Elevation	10 metres (33 ft)[1] AMSL
Runways Direction Length and surface 03/21 1,830 metres (6,004 ft) Concrete 07/25 1,280 metres (4,199 ft) Concrete 12/30 1,280 metres (4,199 ft) Concrete

Royal Air Force Finningley or more simply RAF Finningley is a former Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force station at Finningley, in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. The station straddled the historic county boundaries of both Nottinghamshire and the West Riding of Yorkshire.

The station was used as a bomber base during the Second World War, then in the early 1950s it had fighters allocated to it. From the late 1950s to the 1970s it was one of the home airfields of the V-bomber force, before becoming a Support Command base and housing the HQ of the Search and Rescue Force.

RAF Finningley was decommissioned in 1996. The airfield was developed into an international airport named Doncaster Sheffield Airport, which opened on 28 April 2005. The closure of the airport was announced in September 2022 with the final passenger flight arriving on 4 November 2022.