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Royal Air Force Pembroke Dock, or more simply RAF Pembroke Dock, was a Royal Air Force Seaplane and Flying boat station located at Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales.The Royal Navy contingent left in 1926 with the Royal Air Force occupying the site from 1 January 1930.
The Short S.25 Sunderland is a British flying boat patrol bomber, developed and constructed by Short Brothers for the Royal Air Force (RAF). The aircraft took its service name from the town (latterly, city) and port of Sunderland in North East England.
The Flying Boat Training Squadron was reformed at RAF Pembroke Dock on 17 October 1953 as a redesignation of No. 235 OCU. It operated with Short Sunderland V flying boat, before being disbanded less than 3 years later, on 5 October 1956, still at RAF Pembroke Dock.
RAF Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales: 3 Nov 1944: 2 Aug 1945: RAF Castle Archdale, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland 2 Aug 1945: 1 Apr 1946: RAF Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales 1 Apr 1946: 18 Jan 1949: RAF Calshot, Hampshire (Det. at Finkenwerder, West-Germany) 18 Jan 1949: 28 Feb 1957: RAF Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales 1 Oct 1958 ...
No. 240 Squadron RAF was a Royal Air Force flying boat and seaplane squadron during World War I, World War II and up to 1959. It was then reformed as a strategic missile squadron, serving thus till 1963.
On 22 June 1938, the first Short Sunderland flying boat arrived, [15] the aircraft the squadron would be equipped with for the next 20 years, in fact until 28 February 1957, when the squadron was disbanded at Pembroke Dock. [16]
In September 2022 the exact copy of the 35ft-long aircraft made its inaugural public flight and marked 28 years since any seaplane had flown at Windermere and 111 years since the original’s ...
No. 461 Squadron was formed at RAF Mount Batten in Britain on 25 April 1942 as an anti-submarine squadron raised under an Article XV of the Empire Air Training Scheme.It was originally intended that the squadron would be equipped with Catalina flying boats, but it was equipped with Short Sunderland aircraft instead.