RAF Kaldadarnes

RAF Kaldadarnes
IATA: none – ICAO: none
Summary
Airport type	Military
Owner	Icelandic Government
Operator	Royal Air Force
Serves	Reykjavík, Iceland
Location	Reykjavík, Iceland
Built	1940 (1940)
In use	1941-1945 (1945)
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RAF Kaldadarnes Location in Iceland

Royal Air Force Station Kaldadarnes or more simply RAF Kaldadarnes is a former Royal Air Force station, near the city of Reykjavík, Iceland.

Beginnings

The station was built in 1940 by the British Army and used by the Royal Air Force from March 1941 and throughout the remainder of the Second World War.

On 2 September 1942 the war artist Eric Ravilious was lost after he flew from Kaldadarnes.

Squadrons

Sqn	Aircraft	Joined	Departed	From > To	Notes
48	Lockheed Hudson V & III	6 January 1942	23 September 1942	RAF Wick > RAF Sumburgh	Detachment only.
98	Fairey Battle V Hawker Hurricane I	31 July 1940	15 July 1941	RAF Gatwick > DB	Last Squadron move prior to being disbanded.
269	Avro Anson I Lockheed Hudson I & III	April 1940	6 March 1943	RAF Wick > RAF Reykjavik	Detachment initially prior to Squadron move.

After the cessation of hostilities of the Second World War the British Government handed the airfield over to the Icelandic Civil Aviation Authority and was used for a short while until it was closed and is now in ruins.