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Royal Air Force Alconbury or RAF Alconbury is an active Royal Air Force station in the United Kingdom, located in Huntingdon, England. The airfield is adjacent to the Stukeleys Great and Little, Alconbury. Opened in 1938, it is currently a non-flying facility under the control of the United States Air Force. It is one of three RAF stations in Cambridgeshire currently used by the United States Air Forces in Europe - Air Forces Africa (USAFE-AFAFRICA). Alconbury, along with RAF Molesworth and RAF Upwood are considered the "Tri-Base Area" due to their close geographic proximity, and interdependency. Except for a period of inactivity between 1945 and 1951, the station has been continuously in use. RAF Alconbury and RAF Molesworth are the last Second World War-era Eighth Air Force bases in Britain that are still actively in use and controlled by the United States Air Force. On 8 January 2015 it was announced that the US Air Force would be withdrawn from RAF Alconbury, along with RAF Mildenhall and RAF Molesworth.〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-30725366 BBC News, 8 January 2015〕 The Alconbury Weald development, including Alconbury Enterprise Campus, is taking place on land adjoining the USAFE site, part of the former RAF Alconbury. ==Current status== The host unit at RAF Alconbury is the 423rd Air Base Group (423 ABG) which supplies host unit services for Alconbury as well as RAF Molesworth. The 423 ABG also provides services to the 426th Air Base Squadron at Sola Air Station, Stavanger, Norway. The group comprises six squadrons—security forces and civil engineer, air base, medical and services—and supports tenant units. It manages the daily activities in the community and maintains all facilities, services, and housing. Its primary mission is support for the U.S. European Command Joint Analysis Center, Defense Reutilization and Marketing Office (DRMO) and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) at RAF Molesworth. The Alconbury Medical and Dental Clinic has been moved from RAF Upwood to RAF Alconbury, and serves the immediate medical needs of active duty personnel, their families and retired military that live in the area. The 423 ABG command section and orderly room are located at Alconbury as are many of the support units and recreational facilities for the area. RAF Alconbury is also the home of the 501st Combat Support Wing (501 CSW). The 501 CSW is the command and control authority over geographically separated USAFE units in the United Kingdom. The 501 CSW ensures United Kingdom-based air base groups are resourced, sustained, trained and equipped to exacting command standards in order to provide mission support that enables United States and NATO war fighters to conduct full spectrum flying operations during expeditionary deployments, theatre munitions movements, global command and control communications to forward deployed locations, support for theatre intelligence operations and joint/combined training. RAF Alconbury is about 0.308 sq mi (0.798 km²) in area. A replica F-5E aircraft is on display outside the front gate. An A-10 aircraft is on display near the base parade field. The original Second World War era control tower is still standing in the old airfield section. A Second World War era building in the farm field just east of the current base perimeter, along with several wartime buildings on the old technical site (Site #5) on the west side of the former airfield. Several Second World War T-2 hangars are still in use on the airfield section. Several Second World War bomber hardstands (both frying pan and loop type) remain on the airfield section. Alconbury Weald is a project which will develop most of the former RAF Alconbury, on land adjoining the USAFE site, into 'a major new location for manufacturing, engineering and development as well as providing much-needed housing to support Cambridgeshire’s future growth'. In 2009, the company Urban&Civic bought the site (and adjacent farmland in 2010) with a view to developing it for business and residential purposes. The Alconbury Enterprise Campus, an enterprise zone, occupies a quarter of the site, while over half of the site is dedicated to green space. Urban&Civic estimate that the development will provide 8000 jobs and 5000 new homes.〔 A major new building called The Incubator opened in February 2014. It was designed by the architects Allford Hall Monaghan Morris and it is visible from the nearby Ermine Street (B1043).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Incubator )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「RAF Alconbury」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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