RAF Church Fenton (Leeds East Airport) | Education Video by World of Military

<p><strong>Leeds East Airport Church Fenton</strong> (ICAO: <strong>EGCM</strong>), formerly RAF Church Fenton, is an airport and former Royal Air Force station located 4.3 miles (6.9&nbsp;km) south-east of Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England and 6.3 miles (10.1&nbsp;km) north-west of Selby, North Yorkshire, near the village of Church Fenton. The airport has had a licensing application from the UK Civil Aviation Authority rejected. This led to the scrapping of plans to allow regular scheduled passenger flights and charter flights to various European destinations. The airport has subsequently been awarded an operating licence for private use</p><p><br></p><p>The airfield was originally a Royal Air Force station known as RAF Church Fenton. It opened on 1 April 1937 when the station was declared open and on 19 April the first station commander Wing Commander W.E. Swann assumed command. Within two months No. 71 Squadron RAF had arrived with the Gloster Gladiator.</p><p>It saw the peak of its activity during the years of the Second World War, when it served within the defence network of fighter bases of the RAF providing protection for the Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield and Humber estuary i