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Royal Air Force Station Scatsta or more simply RAF Scatsta is a former Royal Air Force station. It was originally planned as a fighter airfield in support of the adjacent flying boat base of RAF Sullom Voe near the village of Brae, in the Shetland Isles of Scotland.

Beginnings
The building of this airfield started just after the start of the Second World War during 1940 and completed by April 1941 by Zetland County Council. It became home primarily to various Fighter Command squadrons in support of the flying boats based at the adjacent RAF Sullom Voe base. 201 Squadron was posted there just 25 days before the declaration of war on 3 September 1939. 240 Squadron was posted there a month later on 4 November 1939 then Sullom Voe became the first location in the British Isles to be bombed on Monday 13 November 1939 when four bombs landed in a field. No damage was formally reported apart from the death of a rabbit!

The complex was added to when a nearby airfield was built during 1940 and named RAF Scatsta. See Scatsta Airport.

During the War
During the latter period one of 210 Sqn's pilots, Flying Officer John Cruickshank, carried out a successful attack on a German U-boat, which by this time posessed heavy anti-aircraft guns. Despite severe injuries, he managed to fly his aircraft home and circled until daybreak before he was able to land it safely saving his crew, an achievement for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross.

Post War
After the Second World War: See Sullom Voe, Sullom Voe Terminal and Scatsta Airport.