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RNAS Merryfield
IATA: N/A - ICAO: EGDW
Summary <tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Airport type</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">Military</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Operator</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">Royal Navy</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Serves</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">Ilminster</td></tr>
Elevation AMSL		146 ft (45 m)
Coordinates		50°57′45″N, 002°56′08″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
03/21	4,230	1,289	Asphalt
09/27	5,970	1,820	Asphalt
16/34	3,704	1,129	Asphalt

RNAS Merryfield (IATA: N/A, ICAO: EGDW) is an airfield of the Royal Navy. The station is located at the village of Ilton near Ilminster in southwest Somerset, England. The name comes from the ruins of Merryfield House. The station serves as a satellite to the larger RNAS Yeovilton and serves mainly as a training airport for helicopter pilots.

In the 1980s the site was considered as a storgage area for nuclear waste.

[edit] References

• Universal Avionics Systems Corporation (PDF)
• RNAS Merryfield infromation
• Newsquest South-West

[edit] External links

• RNAS Merryfield at the Royal Navy
• Air Scene UK - Training exercise at Merryfield and Yeovilton

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