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Royal Air Force Station Wildenrath

former Royal Air Force station and military airbase near Wegberg in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Summary

Royal Air Force Station Wildenrath is a Royal Air Force station[1]. It draws 285 Wikipedia views per month (royal air force station category, ranking #31 of 149).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Wegberg[3]
  • Country: Germany[4]
  • Structure replaced by: Test and validation centre, Wegberg-Wildenrath[5]
  • IATA airport code: WID[6]
  • ICAO airport code: EDUW[7]
  • Commons category: RAF Wildenrath[8]
  • Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 1992[9]
  • Coordinate location: 51.115083, 6.213722[10]
  • Motto text: Immer Bereit[11]
  • Used by: Royal Air Force[12], No. 3 Squadron[13], No. 4 Squadron RAF[14], No. 14 Squadron RAF[15], No. 17 Squadron RAF[16], No. 19 Squadron RAF[17], No. 20 Squadron RAF[18], No. 60 Squadron RAF[19], No. 67 Squadron RAF[20], No. 71 Squadron RAF[21], No. 88 Squadron RAF[22], No. 92 Squadron RAF[23], No. 25 Squadron RAF[24], No. 16 Squadron RAF Regiment[25]
  • Date of official opening: January 15, 1952[26]
  • State of use: decommissioned[27]

Why It Matters

Royal Air Force Station Wildenrath is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

Related Entities

Germany

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Bouzinac · 2026-09-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Used by → —
    Structure replaced by → Test and validation centre, Wegberg-Wildenrath
    Coordinates → —
    Coordinate location → {'latitude': 51.115083, 'longitude': 6.213722}
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ State of use: decommissioned, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1789327725866"
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