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2. RAF Ballykelly - Wikipedia

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   Royal Air Force Ballykelly, or more simply RAF Ballykelly, is a former Royal Air Force station which opened in 1941 in Ballykelly, County Londonderry. It closed in 1971 when the site was handed over to the British Army as Shackleton Barracks .

3. Shackleton Barracks - Wikipedia

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   The site formerly known as RAF Ballykelly was handed over to the British Army as Shackleton Barracks on 2 June 1971. [1] Battalion HQ and HQ Company of the 5th Battalion, Ulster Defence Regiment arrived there shortly after the barracks opened.

4. List of accidents and incidents involving the Avro Shackleton

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   1 April 1968 Shackleton Mk 2 WR956 skidded off the runway in wet weather whilst landing at RAF Ballykelly and was written off. 19 April 1968 Shackleton T.2 prototype WB833 of No. 204 Squadron RAF crashed into rising ground on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland in bad weather, all 11 on board killed [1]

5. Avro Shackleton - Wikipedia

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   RAF Shackleton of 224 Squadron flying in formation during the 1954–1959 Jebel Akhdar War in Oman. In 1957, British RAF Shackletons participated heavily during Jebel Akhdar War in Oman to expand the territory of the Sultanate, which was a de facto British colony, [39] [40] [41] in order to gain access to oil wells in the interior parts of Oman ...

6. RNAS Ballykelly (HMS Sealion) - Wikipedia

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   In January 1968, the RAF announced the base was to close and after a delay due to the late introduction of the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod to the RAF inventory, the last Shackleton left on 31 March 1971. The base was handed over to the British Army on 2 June 1971, when it re-opened as Shackleton Barracks .

7. No. 204 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia

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   Up until 1972, the sanctions were applied by the Royal Navy working with the RAF, which undertook reconnaissance flights of the Beira Straits from its base in Madagascar. The RAF was located at the airfield close to the port of Majunga, on the north-west coast of Madagascar. No. 204 Squadron was the unit tasked with this responsibility, just ...

8. Ship wreck explorers solve decades old plane wreck mystery

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   A group of explorers who hunt for ship wrecks for fun got a bit of a surprise on their last adventure. They didn't find a ship wreck. They found a plane wreck and solved a decades-old mystery in ...

9. Ballykelly - Wikipedia

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   RAF Ballykelly, a former Royal Air Force station in Ballykelly, County Londonderry; closed in 1971; RNAS Ballykelly (HMS Sealion), a former Royal Naval Air Station near Ballykelly, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland; Shackleton Barracks, a former military installation at Ballykelly, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland