RAF Carew Cheriton

RAF Carew Cheriton
RAF Carew Cheriton
Carew, Pembrokeshire in Wales
	RAF Carew Cheriton control tower
Site information
Type	Royal Air Force station
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);
Location
	RAF Carew Cheriton Shown within Pembrokeshire RAF Carew Cheriton RAF Carew Cheriton (the United Kingdom)
Coordinates	51°41′23″N 004°48′39″W / 51.68972°N 4.81083°W
Site history
Built	1938
In use	1938–1945
Battles/wars	European theatre of World War II
Airfield information
Elevation	28 metres (92 ft) AMSL
Runways
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 near Carew, Pembrokeshire, Wales. It was 4.7 miles (7.6 km) north west of Tenby.

It covered, and was larger than, the 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.