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A crash at RAF Boscombe Down in Wiltshire on 26 September 1994 appeared closely linked to "black" missions, according to a report in AirForces Monthly. Further investigation was hampered by USAF aircraft flooding into the base. Special Air Service personnel arrived in plainclothes in an Agusta 109.
MOD Boscombe Down (ICAO: EGDM) is the home of a military aircraft testing site, on the south-eastern outskirts of the town of Amesbury, Wiltshire, England.The site is managed by QinetiQ, [2] the private defence company created as part of the breakup of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) in 2001 by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD).
In June 1992, Husband was assigned to the Aircraft and Armament Evaluation Establishment at Boscombe Down, England, as an exchange test pilot with the Royal Air Force. At Boscombe Down, he was the Tornado GR1 and GR4 Project Pilot and served as a test pilot in the Hawk, Hunter, Buccaneer, Jet Provost, Tucano, and Harvard.
Shot down by a surface-to-air missile. 23 February 1991 United States Marine Corps: AV-8B Harrier II Shot down by a surface-to-air missile over Kuwait, pilot is killed. 27 February 1991 United States Marine Corps: AV-8B Harrier II Shot down on the final day of the Persian Gulf War by anti-aircraft artillery, pilot (Woody) is killed. 25 ...
The crash killed all 4 crew. [113] 1 November – Silver City Airways Bristol Freighter G-ANWL crashed on landing at Guernsey Airport, Channel Islands. Two of the ten people on board were killed. [114] 1962. 6 May – Channel Airways, Douglas C-47A G-AGZB crashed at St Boniface Down, Isle of Wight, killing 13 of the 18 people on board.
The Joint Aircraft Recovery and Transportation Squadron (JARTS), informally known as Crash and Smash, [1] is a combined Royal Navy and Royal Air Force squadron that is tasked with the recovery and surface transportation of aircraft under the aegis of the British military framework. The squadron operates worldwide, and recovering aircraft from ...
On 2 June 1994, a Chinook helicopter of the Royal Air Force (RAF), serial number ZD576, crashed on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, in foggy conditions. The crash resulted in the deaths of all twenty-five passengers and four crew on board. Among the passengers were almost all the United Kingdom's senior Northern Ireland intelligence experts. The ...
The Strike Attack Operational Evaluation Unit (SAOEU) or Strike Attack OEU, was a unit of the Royal Air Force based at RAF Boscombe Down in Wiltshire between 1987 and 2004. The unit operated the Panavia Tornado GR.1 and GR.4, BAE Harrier GR.5 & T.4A and SEPECAT Jaguar aircraft. The role of the SAOEU was to evaluate new and existing equipment ...