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RAF Mount Pleasant. RAF Mount Pleasant (IATA: MPN, ICAO: EGYP) (also known as Mount Pleasant Airport, Mount Pleasant Complex or MPA) [2] is a Royal Air Force station in the British Overseas Territory of the Falkland Islands. The airfield goes by the motto of "Defend the right" [3] (while the motto of the islands is "Desire the right") and is ...
The Royal Air Force operates flights from RAF Mount Pleasant to RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, England, with a refuelling stop at RAF Ascension Island. This service is called the South Atlantic Airbridge. [22]
The RAF airfield on Ascension Island is run on a day-to-day basis by around 19 RAF personnel, headed by a wing commander. [20] RAF Ascension Island is normally the refuelling point for the Ministry of Defence's South Atlantic air bridge flights to RAF Mount Pleasant, on the Falkland Islands, from RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, in the UK. [22]
Following the 1982 Falklands War, the United Kingdom established the Falklands Airbridge (also known as the RAF Airbridge or South Atlantic Airbridge) between RAF Brize Norton in the UK and RAF Mount Pleasant in the Falkland Islands (via RAF Ascension Island).
Royal Air Force. RAF Brize Norton on a target dossier of the German Luftwaffe, 1940. Construction of RAF Brize Norton began in 1935 with the official opening taking place on 13 August 1937. [6] The station was originally to be named RAF Carterton, given its proximity and relationship with the town of the same name, but was instead named RAF ...
No. 1312 Flight Royal Air Force, commonly abbreviated to 1312 Flt RAF, is an independent aircraft flight of the Royal Air Force (RAF). Currently based at Royal Air Force Station Mount Pleasant (more commonly known as RAF Mount Pleasant, and also known as Mount Pleasant Airport, MPA, and Mount Pleasant Complex) [3] [4] in East Falkland, 1312 Flt are supporting at present the defence of the ...
The Royal Navy's fleet stopped at Ascension for refuelling on the way. Following the war, the British retained an increased presence on the island, establishing RAF Ascension Island, and providing a refuelling stop for the regular airlink between RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, and RAF Mount Pleasant in the Falkland Islands.
[22] [23] Regular RAF flights connected Ascension with RAF Brize Norton in the UK and RAF Mount Pleasant in the Falkland Islands, a transport link called the South Atlantic Air Bridge. The flights are mainly to transport military personnel, though the RAF did allow fare-paying civilians to use them.