RAF Carew Cheriton

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RAF Carew Cheriton
Carew, Pembrokeshire in Wales
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Coordinates	51°41′23″N 004°48′39″W / 51.68972°N 4.81083°W / 51.68972; -4.81083
Type	Royal Air Force station
Site information
Owner	Air Ministry
Operator	Royal Air Force
Controlled by	RAF Coastal Command 1939-1942 *No. 15 Group RAF RAF Flying Training Command 1942 *No. 25 Group RAF RAF Technical Training Command 1942-1945 *No. 27 Group RAF (1944)
Site history
Built	1938 (1938)
In use	1938-1945 (1945)
Battles/wars	European theatre of World War II
Airfield information
Elevation	28 metres (92 ft) AMSL
Runways Direction Length and surface 06/24 965 metres (3,166 ft) Asphalt 12/30 1,040 metres (3,412 ft) Asphalt 16/34 765 metres (2,510 ft) Asphalt

Royal Air Force Carew Cheriton, or more simply RAF Carew Cheriton, is a former Royal Air Force station located near Carew, Pembrokeshire. It was situated 4.7 miles (7.6 km) north west of Tenby.

It covered and more, the same site of the First World War airship station, RNAS Pembroke (aka Milton), which had been decommissioned and sold off by the Admiralty during the Interwar period. It opened in the 1939, for RAF Coastal Command. The station was transferred to RAF Technical Training Command in 1942 and closed in 1945.^[1]