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Middle Wallop Flying Station is a British Army airfield located near the Hampshire village of Middle Wallop. It is the Headquarters for the Army Air Corps, and the 1st Aviation Brigade Combat Team, and is also used for Army Air Corps training. The base hosts 2 (Training) Regiment AAC and 7 (Training) Regiment AAC under the umbrella of the Army ...
Phase 1, which was completed on 1 September 2017, is a memorial to more than 5,000 personnel who died in the service of British Army Flying from early pioneers to the modern Army Air Corps. [4] Phase 2, from November 2018 to April 2019, instituted a Heritage Lottery Fund supported £2.59 million refurbishment.
It was used to assemble the MONABs at around one per month, however, at the end of 1944 Ludham was returned to the RAF, and swapped for the Royal Air Force station at Middle Wallop, Hampshire. The MNAO HQ, HMS Flycatcher, moved in and the airbase was known as Royal Naval Air Station Middle Wallop. [8]
In January 1945, in an exchange with the Royal Air Force, Middle Wallop was transferred to Royal Navy use, and became 'RNAS Middle Wallop'. HMS Flycatcher, the headquarters for the Mobile Naval Air Base organisation then moved in from RNAS Ludham, Norfolk, which reverted to RAF use. In 1946, the Royal Air Force occupied Middle Wallop again.
RAF Middle Wallop: Sqn Ldr Harold Arthur Fenton RAF Middle Wallop: No. 609 Sqn: Supermarine Spitfire: PR: SORBO: RAF Warmwell: Sqn Ldr Horace Stanley Darley RAF Middle Wallop: No. 604 (Night Fighter) Sqn: Bristol Blenheim & Bristol Beaufighter: NG: RAF Middle Wallop: Sqn Ldr Michael Frederick Anderson RAF Middle Wallop: No. 23 Sqn (part ...
The 88th Air Base Wing headquarters is located in Building 10 on Area A, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, on May 17, 2022. (Matthew Clouse/U.S. Air Force)
Most countries with military aviation forces have a system for naming of military airbases. "Air Force Base" ("AFB") is part of the name of military airbases of the United States Air Force (USAF) and the South African Air Force (SAAF), with the USAF using it at the end of the name of the base (e.g. "Dover AFB"), [1] and the SAAF using it at the start (e.g. "AFB Hoedspruit").
5 Regiment Army Air Corps is a regiment of the British Army and is part of the Joint Aviation Command (JAC). [1] The regiment was formerly based in Northern Ireland at Aldergrove Flying Station , but is now based at Middle Wallop Flying Station .