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This list of Royal Air Force stations is an overview of all current stations of the Royal Air Force (RAF) throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. This includes front-line and training airbases , support, administrative and training stations with no flying activity, unmanned airfields used for training, intelligence gathering stations and an ...
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 ...
There have been many units with various tasks in the Royal Air Force (RAF), and they are listed here. A unit is an administrative term for a body, which can be larger or smaller than a flight or squadron, is given a specific mission, but does not warrant the status of being formed as a formal flight or squadron.
The Royal Air Force (RAF) identify their bases as "Royal Air Force stations", but for modern purposes this is usually abbreviated to "RAF" plus the name, e.g. RAF Marham. [2] They are generally named after the closest railway station as rail travel was the main means of transport for service personnel in the early days of the RAF.
University Air Squadrons (UAS), [1] are Royal Air Force training units under the command of No. 6 Flying Training School RAF. [2] That offers training and flight training to university students, with the goal of attracting students into a career as an RAF officer after university.
On 11 October a squadron was formed at Oxford with the object of attracting the first candidates for commissions to the Royal Air Force, the Royal Air Force Reserve and the Auxiliary Air Force, to simulate interest in air matters generally and to maintain liaison with the university.
This article contains a list of the Southern Rhodesian facilities forming part of Joint Air Training Scheme which was a major programme for training South African Air Force, Royal Air Force and Allied air crews during World War II. [1] However, RAF Training units would still be based in this country until a decade after the war had finished
Royal Navy fixed wing operations were phased out, and the Phantoms transferred to the Royal Air Force (RAF). The base remained as the home of the Commando Helicopter Squadrons, using the Wessex HU5 and later the Sea King HC4, and the fixed wing Fleet Requirements and Aircraft Direction Unit (FRADU), and became the main shore base for the Navy's ...