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Aerial photograph of RAF Middle Wallop looking north, the control tower is in front of the technical site with five C-Type hangars upper right, 29 October 1946 Two AAC Britten-Norman Turbine Defender aircraft outside the hangars at Middle Wallop. Middle Wallop Flying Station is a British Army airfield located near the Hampshire village of ...
Formerly No. 9 Reconnaissance Flight AAC (Formerly: No. 1909 Air Observation Post Flight RAF) [13] 10 Flight: 1 September 1957: Formerly No. 10 Reconnaissance Flight AAC (Formerly: No. 1910 Air Observation Post Flight RAF) [13]} 11 Flight: 1 September 1957: Formerly No. 11 Reconnaissance/Liaison Flight AAC (Formerly: No. 1911 Light Liaison ...
The regiment consisted of No. 655 (The Scottish Horse) Squadron AAC, No. 665 Squadron AAC and 1 Flight AAC. [4] 655 Squadron operated the Westland Lynx AH7 helicopter. [5] 665 Squadron operated the Westland Gazelle AH1 helicopter. [6] 1 Flight operated the fixed wing Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander aircraft which had entered service on 10 March ...
671 Squadron was formed on 1 April 1986 at Middle Wallop as part of 2 Regiment AAC (Training). From 2000 it was operated Westland Lynx AH.7's, Westland Gazelle AH.1 's and Bell 212 AH.1 's. It joined 7 Regiment AAC (Flying) on 1 April 2009.
Middle Wallop is a village in the civil parish of Nether Wallop in Hampshire, England, on the A343 road. At the 2011 Census the population was included in the civil parish of Over Wallop . The village has a public house, The George Inn, and a petrol station as well as The Wallops Parish Hall.
The 1st Aviation Brigade Combat Team is an aviation formation of the British Army. [3] Most of its units are from the Army Air Corps (AAC). It was stood up on 1 April 2020 by combining the Wattisham Flying Station Headquarters (WFS HQ), formerly the Attack Helicopter Force (AHF) at Wattisham and the Aviation Reconnaissance Force at the Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton.
The site was transferred to the Army Air Corps in 1963 and became AAC Netheravon. No. 651 Squadron moved here in 1964 and had responsibility for Army aviation in the UK (other than at Middle Wallop) and the Middle East. 7 Army Aviation Regiment was formed c. 1969 at Netheravon and in 1971 the regiment was renamed to 7 Regiment Army Aviation Corps.
On 1 September 1957, the squadron was transferred to the Army Air Corps and became No. 651 Squadron AAC. [ 7 ] On 1 April 2019, 651 Squadron and its aircraft, the Britten-Norman Defender and Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander , were transferred to the Royal Air Force as part of ISTAR Force in No. 1 Group based at RAF Waddington .