Cawdor Barracks
| Cawdor Barracks RAF Brawdy RNAS Brawdy "HMS Goldcrest" |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | EGDA |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 111 m (364 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 10 km east of St. Davids |
| Street | 1 km to 
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| Basic data | |
| opening | February 2, 1944 |
| closure | 1992 (as an airfield) |
| operator | British Army |
| Runways | |
| 02/20 | 2020 m × 46 m asphalt |
| 15/33 | 1697 m × 48 m asphalt |
| Helipad | 25 m of concrete |
The Cawdor Barracks are a barracks of the British Army in the west of the Welsh county of Pembrokeshire east St Davids ' at the edge of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park . The barracks is located on the grounds of a former military airfield of RAF and Royal Navy . Apart from a helipad, its use for aviation ended in 1992.
history
The site was opened in 1944 as Royal Air Force Station Brawdy , or RAF Brawdy for short, as a satellite airfield of RAF St Davids . During the Second World War he served the RAF Bomber Command , which Halifax and B-17 stationed here.
RNAS Brawdy
At the beginning of 1946 the station was handed over to the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy. The Royal Naval Air Station Brawdy , or RNAS Brawdy for short , initially only served as an alternative location for RNAS Dale.
On September 4, 1952 she was put into service as "HMS Goldcrest" and from 1953 initially served as a base for Sea Hawks .
Between 1963 and 1971 Gannets and Hunters were the main users here . The gannets were used as early warning aircraft and the hunters for advanced training. During this time of the Cold War , Brawdy would have been deployed by RAF V bombers in an emergency .
The Royal Navy left the base in 1971. It was subsequently administered by the Ministry of the Environment.
RAF Brawdy
In February 1974 the Royal Air Force returned to RAF Brawdy and between September 1976 and July 1978 stationed a swarm of SAR helicopters of the Whirlwind HAR.10 type , the D Flight of the 22nd Squadron, here .
As early as September 1974, the Hunter F.6, FGA.9 and T.7 equipped No. 1 Tactical Weapons Unit (1 TWU) stationed in RAF Brawdy. The unit later received the Hawk T.1A , during which time the 79th and 234th Squadron were subordinate to it . The RAF ceased operations in RAF Brawdy in 1992 and the base was later handed over to the army.
Cawdor Barracks
The army site was opened in 1995 as the Cawdor barracks, named after the local count, and from then on served the 14th Signal Regiment , a unit for electronic warfare , as a location. He was subordinate to five squadrons , one of which served as operational command. All but one of the four Signal Squadrons were in Brawdy.
Todays use
The barracks are still the location of the 600 men strong 14th Signal Regiment of the British Army.
In 2013 it was announced that the regiment would be relocated to the St. Athan base after 2018 and the Brawdy location was to be abandoned, but the closure date was postponed to 2024 in 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Declassified documents reveal how RAF Brawdy was a target for Soviet Union nuclear missiles, Western Telegraph., June 11, 2014
- ^ Cawdor barracks to shut with 600 troops moving to St Athan, BBC, March 5, 2013
- ↑ Home of the 14th Signal Regiment to close in 2024, The Milford Mercury, November 7, 2016
