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This list of Royal Air Force stations is an overview of all current stations of the Royal Air Force (RAF) throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. This includes front-line and training airbases , support, administrative and training stations with no flying activity, unmanned airfields used for training, intelligence gathering stations and an ...
A Royal Air Force A400M Atlas C1 and Gibraltar Defence Police vehicle at RAF Gibraltar. RAF Gibraltar is a Royal Air Force station located at the northern end of the territory. Although no aircraft are based at the station, it is used to support operations in the region and for major NATO exercises.
Base Major types of aircraft Opened Disbanded Comments No. 4 FTS: RAF Heany Tiger Moth (until replaced by Chipmunk), Harvard, Anson 1 February 1947 [3] 26 January 1954 [3] No. 5 FTS: RAF Thornhill: Tiger Moth (until replaced by Chipmunk), Harvard, Anson 23 April 1947 [3] 22 January 1951 4 January 1948 [3] 30 December 1953 No. 3 ANS RAF ...
The station officially became "RAF Gibraltar" in 1966. [16] The RAF camp, now known as Devil's Tower Camp, which was increasingly used by the British Army in the 1960s and 1970s, became the home of the Royal Gibraltar Regiment. [17] By the 1980s RAF Gibraltar was increasingly being used as a Forward Operating Base for middle east operations. [7]
Fayid Air Base is an Air base of the Egyptian Air Force located west of Fayed, Ismailia Governorate, Egypt and 23 km (14 mi) south of Ismailia (Al Isma`iliyah) and 116 km (72 mi) northeast of Cairo. [1] It was formerly RAF Fayid, a Royal Air Force station operational from 1942.
Royal Air Force Brize Norton or RAF Brize Norton (IATA: BZZ, ICAO: EGVN) is the largest station of the Royal Air Force. [4] Situated in Oxfordshire , about 75 mi (121 km) west north-west of London, it is close to the village of Brize Norton and the towns of Carterton and Witney .
When RAF Neatishead was first established, its primary function was as a 'Control and Reporting Centre' (CRC) for the south of the United Kingdom. [4] Equipment previously located in the base included: Type 7 GCI, AN/FPS-6 height finding radar, Type 80 'Green Garlic' radar, Type 84 radar, Type 85 'Blue Yeoman' radar, 3 Decca (later Plessey) HF200 height finding radars, and a R15 radar.
London Biggin Hill, a former RAF station This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They are listed under any former county or country name which was appropriate for the duration of operation. During 1991, the RAF had several Military Emergency Diversion Aerodrome (MEDA) airfields: RAF ...