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MOD Sealand (formerly RAF Sealand), is a Ministry of Defence installation in Flintshire, in the northeast corner of Wales, close to the border with England. It was a Royal Air Force station, active between 1916 and 2006. Under defence cuts announced in 2004, RAF Sealand was completely closed in April 2006.
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 ...
Location of Flintshire in Wales. The list of standardised Welsh place-names, for places in Flintshire, is a list compiled by the Welsh Language Commissioner to recommend the standardisation of the spelling of Welsh place-names, particularly in the Welsh language and when multiple forms are used, although some place-names in English were also recommended to be matched with the Welsh.
The station was opened in June 1923 by the London and North Eastern Railway.It was situated to the east of the RAF base. It had no other amenities besides platforms. Nothing was timetabled to stop there originally but it was shown in a 1947 timetable, showing that it was for military use
A view in Sealand, Flintshire, Wales. Fertile market gardening land. In 1700 it was tidal sand and mud flat. Sealand [1] is a community in Flintshire and electoral ward, north-east Wales, on the edge of the Wirral peninsula. It is west of the city of Chester, England, and is part of the Deeside conurbation on the Wales-England border.
DARA Electronics - RAF Sealand in Deeside, Flintshire; DARA Components - Almondbank: provides the capability for repair, modification and testing of an extensive range of hydraulic and transmission components found in both air and land systems for the UK MOD and civilian applications. This business also branched into the commercial sector (See ...
Sealand, in Flintshire, Wales, was the final station on the former Chester & Connah's Quay Railway between Chester Northgate in Cheshire, England and Hawarden Bridge in Flintshire. Services also passed through this station before joining the North Wales and Liverpool Railway .
The first parachute jump from an RAF plane is made at RAF Sealand in Flintshire. Sir William Henry Hoare Vincent represents India at the League of Nations. [6] The Roman amphitheatre at Isca Augusta near Caerleon is excavated by Victor Erle Nash-Williams.