Airport - RAF Base (Heany or Kumalo 1940s WWII)
Heany/Kumalo
This RATG base located near Bulawayo was used during WWII for Royal Air
Force aircrew training. It is not known when it closed, the two bombing
ranges near Bulawayo were named Mias and Myelbo from the expression; “I
don’t know Mias from Myelbo.”
WWI
Opened
Disbanded
No.
23 Heany, Bulawayo
SFTS
8
July 1941
30
September 1945
No.
21 Kumalo, Bulawayo
FTS
8
October 1940
18
May 1945
WWII
No. 4
RAF Heany
FTS
1
February 1947
26
January 1954
No.
394 RAF Heany
MU
1
September 1947
31
March 1954
RATG
Communications Squadron
RAF Kumalo
1
September 1947
31
March 1954
Buildings used for TTC in 1956
