EGUW
Wattisham Airfield
VFR
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Name
Wattisham Airfield
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ICAO / GPS
EGUW / EGUW
- Type
- Restriction
- Region
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Timezone
9:25 pm (GMT)
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Municipality
Stowmarket
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Coordinates
52° 7′ 38″ N 0° 57′ 22″ E
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Elevation
283 ft (86 m MSL)
About Wattisham Airfield
Royal Air Force Wattisham or more simply RAF Wattisham (ICAO: EGUW) was, between 1939 and 1993, the name of a Royal Air Force station located in East Anglia just outside the village of Wattisham, south of Stowmarket in Suffolk, England. During the Cold War it was a major front-line air force base, operating Quick Reaction Alert (South), before closing as an Royal Air Force station in 1993. Since 1993 it has been operated by the British Army as Wattisham Flying Station.