Claim: RAF Cark was opened 1941and was used by RAF Flying Training Command as a Staff Pilot Training Unit and for Anti Aircraft gunnery training.
Evidence: Opening in 1941, the station was designed primarily to operate as a fighter station under the control of RAF Fighter Command in order to afford protection to the industrialised areas of northwest England. Once the threat of invasion had receded, the airfield was used by RAF Flying Training Command as a Staff Pilot Training Unit and for Anti Aircraft gunnery training with aircraft such as Hawker Hurricanes, Miles Martinets and latterly Supermarine Spitfires.