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An Oshkosh Wheeled Refueller vehicle operated by the RAF Tactical Supply Wing.. TSW's primary role is supporting the deployment of helicopter operations, specialising in providing rotors-turning refuelling to helicopters and field refuelling of fixed-wing aircraft; this can done from the back of a transport aircraft, or deploy-able storage facilities, such as bowsers or pillow tanks, often in ...
Long range transport aircraft for RAF – military version of Bristol Britannia airliner Bristol Britannia C.1 [125] F.177D OR.337 / NA.47 1956 Mixed power (rocket and turbojet) interceptor for RAF and Royal Navy Saunders-Roe SR.177 [126] T.178D&P 1957 Dual control trainer version of English Electric Lightning English Electric Lightning T.4 [127]
This is a list of equipment currently used by the Royal Air Force Regiment.The RAF Regiment is the ground fighting force of the Royal Air Force and contributes to the defence of RAF airfields in the UK and overseas, and provides Joint Terminal Attack Controllers (JTACs) to the British Army and Royal Marines, and a contingent to the Special Forces Support Group from No. II (Parachute) Squadron.
[2] Used by the RAF Air Experience Flight. 28 Tutors have been sold to the Finnish Air Force as of 2018. [41] Grob Viking T.1: Germany: Glider: Trainer: 1990: 52: 91: The Grob Viking T1 is the RAF's primary aircraft for delivering basic glider and flight training to the RAF Air Cadets. [2] Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance UAVs; General Atomics MQ ...
Operated by 488 (NZ) Squadron in the defence of Singapore. 23 aircraft hired or on loan from the RAF. Bristol Beaufighter United Kingdom: Twin engine night fighter, torpedo fighter aircraft 1942 1945 RAF aircraft were operated by 488 (NZ) and 489 (NZ) Squadrons. The RAF Variants were the Beaufighter Mk IIF, MK VIF and TF Mk X Bristol Beaufort
ISBN 0-370-30084-X. Davis, Mick (1999). Sopwith Aircraft. Ramsbury, Marlborough, UK: Crowood Press. ISBN 1-86126217-5. Driver, Hugh (1997). The Birth of Military Aviation: Britain 1903-1914. Woodbridge: The Boydel Press for the Royal Historical Society. ISBN 0-86193234-X. Goodall, Michael H.; Albert Tagg (2000). British Aeroplanes Before the ...
In April 2004 it was announced that units from RAF Stafford would be moved to RAF Wittering, effectively closing the station. RAF Stafford officially ceased to be an RAF station on 31 March 2006 to become Beacon Barracks. [5] However, as of August 2024, the RAF's "gate guardian" aircraft, a Harrier GR3 (pictured), remains in place. [6]
The RAF maintains a presence with the Northern Ireland Universities Air Squadron and No. 13 Air Experience Flight operating the Grob Tutor T1 and No. 502 (Ulster) Squadron (Royal Auxiliary Air Force). [46] Kenley Airfield: England Surrey: Former RAF station, currently home to No. 615 Volunteer Gliding Squadron flying the Grob Viking T1. [47 ...