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  2. RAF Filton - Wikipedia

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    Royal Air Force Filton or more simply RAF Filton is a former Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and Royal Air Force (RAF) station located 5 miles (8 km) north of the city centre of Bristol, England. Throughout its existence, RAF Filton shared the airfield with the Bristol Aeroplane Company (later British Aircraft Corporation) whose works, now owned by ...

  3. Bristol Filton Airport - Wikipedia

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    Aero-engine production started close to Filton Airfield, with the acquisition of Cosmos Engineering in 1920. [10] In the same year, the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company became the Bristol Aeroplane Company, often abbreviated to BAC. From 1929 the No. 501 (City of Bristol) Squadron RAF was based at RAF Filton.

  4. List of former Royal Air Force stations - Wikipedia

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    London Biggin Hill, a former RAF station This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They are listed under any former county or country name which was appropriate for the duration of operation. During 1991, the RAF had several Military Emergency Diversion Aerodrome (MEDA) airfields: RAF ...

  5. Royal Flying Corps airfields - Wikipedia

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    RAF Weston-on-the-Green (flying) Widford NLG: December 1914: summer 1916: Essex: part farmland, part industry Stamford: 1916: 1 April 1918: Lincolnshire: England: RAF Wittering (flying) Wormingford NLG: December 1916: June 1919: Essex: England: farmland/WW2 airfield/gliding Worthy Down: 1917: 1 April 1918: Hampshire: England: Worthy Down ...

  6. Aerospace Bristol - Wikipedia

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    The museum is situated on Filton Airfield and the main exhibition is housed in a First World War Grade II listed hangar, [2] A second hangar from the same era, also Grade II listed, is used as the workshop and storage area for items undergoing restoration, [3] with Concorde exhibited in a new, purpose-built hangar. The exhibits cover over 100 ...

  7. List of airports by IATA airport code: F - Wikipedia

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    "United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations". UN/LOCODE 2011-2. UNECE. 28 February 2012. - includes IATA codes "ICAO Location Indicators by State" (PDF). International Civil Aviation Organization. 17 September 2010.

  8. List of V Bomber dispersal bases - Wikipedia

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    In its early years, the British V bomber force relied on the concept of aircraft dispersal to escape the effects of an enemy attack on their main bases. There were 22 such bases in 1962, in addition to the ten main bases a total of 32 bases available for the V bomber force.

  9. Greater Southwest International Airport - Wikipedia

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    Central Airlines, which was based in Fort Worth, was operating four departures per day from the airport in May of 1964 but by the summer of 1967, just one daily flight was flown with a Convair 600 turboprop on a round trip "milk run" routing of Fort Worth - Dallas Love Field - Fort Smith, AR - Fayetteville, AR - Joplin, MO - Kansas City, MO. [12]