RAF Mona acts as the Relief Landing Ground for RAF Valley, and is used by student and instructor pilots alike to practice flying airfield circuits. There are only a handful of buildings at Mona now, but, when opened in 1915, Mona was a thriving airship base with, at its peak, 22 hangars and miles of taxi-way around an airfield of an impressive size which included three runways.
Due to the sheer numbers of Hawk aircraft operating at RAF Valley, Mona is the very necessary Relief Landing Ground for 4 Flying Training School based at nearby RAF Valley.
Although Mona is an RAF base it is operated at weekends, bank
holidays and mid-week summer evenings by Mona Flying Club which
provides full ab-initio PPL/NPPL training together with Night
and IMC ratings plus rating and CofE renewals. Special
arrangements can be made in advance to conduct training during
midweek days, flying out from Mona and returning later in the
day.
Airfield Type: Military
Position: N53°15.6 W004°22.5 Map / Photo
Runways:
04/22 - 1666 × 46m Tarmac Licensed
04 - TORA 1579m; LDA 1524m
22 - TORA 1579m; LDA 1579m
Lights: Threshold, Runway, PAPI
Circuits are right-hand only, on R04.
Local Radio Frequencies:
Mona Flying Club Frequency: 118.95
Valley Radar: 125.225
Caernarfon Radio: 122.25 |
