RAF Wyton | |||||||
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| Near St Ives, Cambridgeshire in England | |||||||
 Canberra PR9 'XH170' which is RAF Wyton's gate guardian | |||||||
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  RAF Wyton Shown within Cambridgeshire | |||||||
| Coordinates | 52°21′26″N 000°06′28″W / 52.35722°N 0.10778°W | ||||||
| Type | Royal Air Force station | ||||||
| Site information | |||||||
| Owner | Ministry of Defence | ||||||
| Operator | Royal Air Force | ||||||
| Controlled by | Strategic Command | ||||||
| Condition | Operational | ||||||
| Website | www | ||||||
| Site history | |||||||
| Built | 1915 | ||||||
| In use | 1916 – present | ||||||
| Garrison information | |||||||
| Current commander | Wing Commander Jim Doyle | ||||||
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| Airfield information | |||||||
| Identifiers | IATA: QUY, ICAO: EGUY, WMO: 03566 | ||||||
| Elevation | 40.2 metres (132 ft) AMSL | ||||||
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| Source: RAF Wyton Defence Aerodrome Manual[2] | |||||||
Royal Air Force Wyton or more simply RAF Wyton (IATA: QUY, ICAO: EGUY) is a Royal Air Force station near St Ives, Cambridgeshire, England. The airfield is decommissioned and the station is now under the command of UK Strategic Command.
RAF Wyton is home to the National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence (NCGI), which provides Open Source Intelligence (OSINT).and Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) support to HM Armed Forces. It also contains the Ministry of Defence Police Headquarters, the Defence Infrastructure Organisation Regional Headquarters, 42 Engineer Regiment (Geographic), and several other UK and Allied capabilities, authorities, and departments.[3]
Located within the station, the Pathfinder Building is described as the "operations centre of Defence Intelligence" and the “largest Top Secret, Five-Eyes by design, military intelligence fusion and assessment facility in the world."[4][5][6]
- ^ Pine, L.G. (1983). A dictionary of mottoes (1 ed.). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 249. ISBN 0-7100-9339-X.
- ^ "RAF Wyton Defence Aerodrome Manual (DAM)" (PDF). RAF Wyton. Military Aviation Authority. 31 March 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 August 2017. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ^ "RAF Wyton | Royal Air Force". 24 May 2024.
- ^ Nicholls, Dominic (8 February 2024). "RAF Wyton: Inside the 'jewel in the crown of British Defence Intelligence'". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
- ^ "Inside the UK's top-secret spy base preparing for war". Sky News. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
- ^ Sengupta, Kim (8 February 2024). "Drones, missiles and white Russian horses: The UK intelligence agency you haven't heard of". The Independent. Retrieved 24 May 2024.