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RAF Cleave | |||||||||
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| Kilkhampton, Cornwall in England | |||||||||
.jpg) RAF Cleave on a target dossier of the German Luftwaffe, 1940 | |||||||||
  RAF Cleave Shown within Cornwall  RAF Cleave RAF Cleave (the United Kingdom) | |||||||||
| Coordinates | 50°53′08″N 04°33′00″W / 50.88556°N 4.55000°W | ||||||||
| Type | Royal Air Force station | ||||||||
| Site information | |||||||||
| Owner | Air Ministry | ||||||||
| Operator | Royal Air Force | ||||||||
| Controlled by | RAF Fighter Command * No. 10 Group RAF[1] | ||||||||
| Site history | |||||||||
| Built | 1938/39 | ||||||||
| In use | May 1939 – November 1945 | ||||||||
| Battles/wars | European theatre of World War II | ||||||||
| Airfield information | |||||||||
| Elevation | 122 metres (400 ft)[1] AMSL | ||||||||
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Royal Air Force Cleave or more simply RAF Cleave is a former Royal Air Force station located 4.2 miles (7 kilometres) north of Bude in Cornwall, England, which was operational from 1939 until 1945.[2] Despite a few periods of intense activity, it was one of RAF Fighter Command's lesser used airfields.
- ^ a b Falconer 2012, p. 66.
- ^ "RAF Cleave". RAFweb.org. RAFweb – Air of Authority. Retrieved 19 October 2017.