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Riccall opened in 1942 as part of the Heavy Conversion Unit (HCU) training crews on the Halifax.
After a busy wartime career the base was eventually handed over to Transport Command in 1945.
The RAF used the site for storage purposes for a short time with No91 Maintenance Unit and eventually the site was vacated and much of the airfield was dismantled.
The control tower was demolished and the hangers removed. Much of the runway has been broken up and returned to farmland and there is a working mine to the north east of the airfield, but on the south side of the airfield you can find quite a lot of the dispersed buildings, which is where the photos were taken. This land is now within a working farm but luckily some of the buildings have been preserved and are in use by the farm.
You will have to speak to the farmer to actually go on to the site but most of the buildings can be seen from the road.
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