Royal Air Force Melbourne | Education Video by World of Military

Royal Air Force Melbourne or more simply RAF Melbourne is a former Royal Air Force station used during the Second World War. Located 5 miles (8 km) to the south-west of Pocklington, Yorkshire, England. The nearest village is Seaton Ross.

RAF Melbourne, Yorkshire was a wartime operational bomber base. Opened in 1940 as a satellite for RAF Pocklington & gradually became a a full bomber station in its own rite & closed in 1946. The first user’s of Melbourne were 10 Squadron with Armstrong Whitworth Whitleys. This was a grass field and by 1941 it desperately needed upgrading to a modern bomber station. When the station re opened 10 Squadron returned and spent most of the rest of the war there. 1943/4 and FIDO was installed on the main runway. (More on FIDO near then end). The Halifax’s an 10 Squadron transferred to Transport Command and replaced its aging Halifax’s for new Dakotas. All very different. Gradually the airfield went into Care & Maintenance and then 91 MU moved in and that usually meant the storage of bombs left over from the war and they were gradually disposed of. The Airfield went back to farming, but