page_title: RAF Pembrey
section_title: Current use
hierarchical_section_title: RAF Pembrey / Current use
caption_attribution_description: English: Pembrey Airport
context_page_description: Royal Air Force Pembrey or RAF Pembrey was a Royal Air Force station located near the village of Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, 3 miles northwest of Burry Port and 10.3 miles south of Carmarthen, Wales.
context_section_description: Pembrey is still associated as a service facility with the former RAF Pembrey Sands Air Weapons Range, now a Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) establishment. The airfield is now split into a number of facilities: the Welsh Motor Sports Centre occupies most of the area, part of the land has reverted to agriculture, part contains a hangar formerly used by the Dyfed-Powys Police Air Support, whilst 805 metres (2,641 ft) of the north east portion of the former RAF Runway 04/22 was opened as Pembrey Airport in August 1997 (ICAO code is EGFP). The airfield is also home to the Llanelli Model Flying Club.
  RAF/RN/RM/British Army aircraft use Pembrey Airport (EGFP) to support the nearby range, known as Pembrey Sands Air Weapons Range. The range was built on land that was not part of RAF Station Pembrey and opened in 1966 (ICAO code for Pembrey Sands Air Weapons Range is EGOP). Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) administers the site with RAF Air Traffic Control personnel manning Range Control supported by civilian contract personnel employed by Landmarc Support Services.
  Pembrey West Wales Airport ltd EGFP remains a working airfield and provides training for the Ministry of Defense and provides services to General Aviation which includes Flight Training ,Air Charter flight, Aircraft Maintenance and Air Cargo services the runway has been extended to 1200 metres and the runway is capable aircraft weights up to 90 tons .
caption: Airport buildings, 2010
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