This location was first used for aviation during the First World War when the Royal Naval Air Service opened an airship base here named Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Anglesey (also known as RNAS Bodffordd, RNAS Gwalchmai and RNAS Llangefni).

RNAS Anglesey was commissioned on 26 September 1915, when it was operated by 14 Group RNAS, operating SS18, an SS class airship, which was later joined by airships SS22, SS24 and SS25. The station had in a large airship hangar, 120 by 318 feet (37 m × 97 m) long, workshops, hydrogen gas production sheds and accommodation huts. The airships, which could drop bombs, escorted ships and patrolled for enemy submarines in the central section of the Irish Sea between Bardsey Island, Dublin, the Isle of Man and Morecambe Bay. This area includes the approaches to the Port of Liverpool, then one of the busiest ports in the world.

Isaac Kenyon

August 15, 2020

You can see the flight runways for the RAF Mona

Y Ddwy Olwyn

June 10, 2021

Home of the 'Flying Mile' on the Tour de Mon so had a chance to hop on. Windy!

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Location: Trewalchmai, Anglesey, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom

RAF Mona Airfield

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