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Royal Air Force Leeming or more simply RAF Leeming is a Royal Air Force station located near Leeming, North Yorkshire, England.It was opened in 1940 and was jointly used by the RAF and the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF).
When RAF Brawdy was decommissioned as an RAF base and handed over to the army, JFACTSU moved to RAF Finningley in South Yorkshire. Finningley then closed just two years later and in 1995, JFACTSU moved to its present location at RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire [2] as the Joint Forward Air Control Training and Standardisation Unit.
RAF Brize Norton — Air Transport; RAF Benson and RAF Odiham — Support Helicopter Force, operating under Joint Aviation Command; Operations are supported by numerous other flying and non-flying stations, with activity centred at RAF Honington which coordinates Force Protection, and RAF Leeming and RAF Wittering which have a support enabler role.
No. 34 Squadron RAF Regiment is a C-UAS squadron of the RAF Regiment in the Royal Air Force. Its mission is to detect, track, and ultimately disrupt and destroy unmanned airborne vehicles. The squadron's current HQ is at RAF Leeming. The motto of the squadron is "Feu de Fer "(Fire from Iron). [2]
No. 135 Expeditionary Air Wing previously No. 135 Wing is a wing of the Royal Air Force. It was stationed at RAF Leeming, controlling the deployable subunits of the base (but not the flying squadrons). It was activated on 1 April 2006 as part of a modernisation package to make the RAF more deployable on an expeditionary basis.
11 Squadron is a flying squadron of the Qatar Emiri Air Force (QEAF). The squadron most recently reformed in November 2021 as a joint QEAF/Royal Air Force squadron. It is currently based at RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom and operates nine BAE Systems Hawk Mk.167s. The unit provides advanced and high-speed jet training for ...
Royal Air Force: Type: Air Combat Service Support unit: Role: Information and communication services: Size: 900+ personnel: Home station: RAF Leeming: Motto(s) Aetherem vincere (Latin for 'Conquer the upper air') Website: Official website: Commanders; Current commander: Group Captain Paul Jennings: Insignia; Unit badge: A Royal Blue stag ...
The Yorkshire Universities Air Squadron (more commonly known as YUAS) is a Royal Air Force flying training unit that currently operates out of RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire, England. One of fourteen University Air Squadrons , the unit traditionally recruits students from universities across the Yorkshire and Humber region and provides ...