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Royal Air Force Hooton Park or more simply RAF Hooton Park, on the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire, is a former Royal Air Force station originally built for the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 as a training aerodrome for pilots in the First World War.
Hooton is a suburban village and former civil parish on the Wirral Peninsula, within the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It was once a separate village but was incorporated into Ellesmere Port as the town expanded outwards during the twentieth century.
Hooton is a village in Cheshire West and Chester, England.It contains twelve listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England.Of these, five are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.
No. 610 (County of Chester) Squadron of the Royal Air Force was a Squadron of the Auxiliary Air Force.Comprising very high quality pilots, often ex-RAF officers and occasionally locally based company Test pilots from companies such as de Havilland and Airwork, its pilots were initially part timers who would spend their weekends and spare time flying and practising combat manoeuvres.
Hooton may refer to: Hooton (surname), a list of people; ... Hooton railway station; See also. Hooton Park, a disused aerodrome; Hooton Levitt, South Yorkshire ...
Gloster Meteor F.4 jet fighters were received in May 1951, these requiring a move to the longer runways at RAF Hooton Park on the Wirral on 9 July. Re-equipment with updated Meteor F.8's came in December 1951 and these were flown from Hooton Park until the squadron disbanded on 10 March 1957, together with all other RAuxAF flying units. [2]
Chester Corporation Tramways electric tram number 4, built by G.F. Milnes & Co. in 1903, has been preserved by Hooton Park Trust and is currently undergoing restoration.
Hooton Park: Battle Lysander III: Carew Cheriton: 15 December 1942: Absorbed by No. 4 Radio Direction Finding School RAF [47] No. 1448 (Radar Calibration) Flight RAF: 17 February 1942: Duxford: Hornet Moth Rota II: Halton: 15 June 1943: No. 529 Squadron RAF [47] No. 1578 (Calibration) Flight RAF: 25 September 1943: Blida, Algeria: Blenheim V ...