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The Royal Air Forces Association branch & club in Hexham, Northumberland The Royal Air Forces Association , also known as RAF Association or RAFA , is a British registered charity . It provides care and support to serving and retired members of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth , and to their dependents.
605 Squadron currently deploys personnel onto RAF exercises and RAF operations across the world including recent deployments in 2022 and 2023 to The Falklands, Cyprus, The USA and The Middle East. They were fully operational by May 2018 and as of 2023 are still recruiting Logisticians including Drivers, Suppliers, Police and Chefs.
As part of the new Royal Air Force Reserves umbrella organisation encompassing both the RAuxAF and RAFR, No 602 Squadron was reformed on 1 July 2006 when the mission support element of 603 (City of Edinburgh) Sqn was separated to form a new unit. As detailed above, it first provided operational support to the RAF Air Traffic Management Force ...
Number 601 (County of London) Squadron is a squadron of the RAF Reserves, based in London.The squadron took part in the Battle of Britain, during which the first Americans to fly in World War II were members of the squadron.
This article lists those members of the Royal Air Force of the United Kingdom who have become either nationally or internationally famous. This could either be due to commanding squadrons or higher formations in memorable operations, by being awarded high honours or by gaining fame subsequent to their RAF service.
Reformed in 2018 to leads the RAF's response to new and evolving threats in the air, cyber and space domains, [4] the group now runs day-to-day RAF operations. No. 22 Group RAF [1] 1918–1919 1926–1940 1943–1972 2006–present: Formed on 1 April 1918 as No. 22 (Operations) Group, in Scotland, and disbanded on 30 May 1919
No. 20 Squadron is the Royal Air Force's Operational Conversion Unit (OCU) for ground-based Tactical Air Command and Control, and Air Battle Management. It is part of the RAF's Air Surveillance and Control System (ASACS) and is based at RAF Boulmer. It was allocated the role on 1 June 2021. [2] The squadron had previously been a flying squadron.
No. 2 Group is the other operations group within Air Command, providing aircraft that support the Royal Navy and RAF front line aircraft, the Royal Air Force Police, and the Royal Air Force Regiment. The group is headquartered at RAF High Wycombe. Air Vice-Marshal Jason Appleton was appointed Air Officer Commanding 2 Group in February 2024.