RAF Skipton-on-Swale

Royal Air Force Skipton-on-Swale or more simply RAF Skipton-on-Swale is a former Royal Air Force satellite station operated by RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War.

The station was located at Skipton-on-Swale 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Thirsk (near the present-day junction of the A61 and A167), North Yorkshire, England.

[1] Skipton-on-Swale was originally a 4 Group facility and first hosted 420 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), which moved to RAF Middleton St. George in October 1942.

[4] In 1984, veterans of the RCAF, including survivors of the crash of an RCAF Halifax in the area, and other Air Force representatives and local residents, gathered in the village for a commemoration of the wartime base.

A cairn to 6 Group was dedicated and a Lancaster of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight made a flypast.